State-of-the-art of integrated switching power converters

Analog Circuit Design - Low Voltage Low Power; Short Range Wireless Front-Ends; Power Management and DC-DC, AACD 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 259-281

  Piqué, Gerard Villar ^a   Bergveld, Henk Jan ^a  

^a NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

INDUCTIVE CONVERTERS; INTEGRATED POWER; STATE OF THE ART; SWITCHED CAPACITOR; SWITCHING POWER CONVERTERS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84881125613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1926-2_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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