A Buck-or-Boost Converter Module With Embedded Inductor and Fast Current Limit

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3874-3883

  Dening, David ^a  

^a RF MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Buck or boost; current limit; printed circuit board (PCB) inductor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896441549     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2028425     Document Type: Article

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