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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Light load efficiency"”.
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A Two-Mode Synchronous Buck Converter for Low-Power Devices with the Sleep Mode
… in car black box varies significantly between light load and heavy load. The high efficiency voltage regulator is necessary in prolong the life of smart camera battery. Since the smart camera only recording the video when car is driving, the most time of the smart camera works in the sleep …
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Investigation on Interleaved Boost Converters and Applications
… such as power scalability, high entire-load-range efficiency, and high power density. Power scalability is a very desirable and cost-effective approach in the PFC design in order to keep up with servers' growing power requirements. Higher power density can eventually reduce the converter …
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A Constant ON-Time 3-Level Buck Converter for Low Power Applications
… cameras operate mostly in sleep mode, which is light load for power supplies. Typical buck converter applications have low efficiency under the light load condition, primarily from their power stage and control being optimized for heavy load. The battery life of a smart camera can be extended …
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A Two-Phase Buck Converter with Optimum Phase Selection for Low Power Applications
… it is essential to increase the power converter efficiency for light load, while being able to manage heavy load. The power stage of traditional buck converter is optimized for maximum load, at the cost of light-load efficiency. Wei proposed a multiphase buck converter incorporating the baby-buck …
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Two-Phase Buck Converter Optimize by Echo State Network
… input voltage into a low output voltage in high efficiency. With this characteristic, it has been used in a great number of applications. Optimized the maximum load to increase the buck converter's efficiency at the cost of light load efficiency is a general way used in a traditional buck …
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Power Architectures and Design for Next Generation Microprocessors
… producing a significant overall system efficiency improvement. However, 48V rack architecture raises significant challenges for the voltage regulator modules (VRMs) required for powering the processor. The 48V VRM in the vicinity of the CPU needs to be designed with very high efficiency, …
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State-Trajectory Analysis and Control of LLC Resonant Converters
… servers, desktops, laptops, flat-panel TVs, LED lighting, etc. are required for more power delivery with smaller spaces. The LLC resonant converter has been widely adopted for these applications due to the advantages in high efficiency, high power density and holdup time operation capability. …
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High Frequency High-Efficiency Voltage Regulators for Future Microprocessors
… 12V-input multiphase buck converter suffers low efficiency at high switching frequency, which rules out a legitimate chance of the current VR topology benefiting from high switching frequency. The extreme duty cycle is the fundamental reason why the 12V-input multiphase buck converter is not …
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A Two-mode Buck Converter toward High Efficiency for the Entire Load Range for Low Power Applications
… smart cameras, it is essential to increase the efficiency of power converters, especially at light load. This thesis research investigated a power converter to supply power for the microprocessor of a smart camera. The input voltage of the converter is 5 V, and the output voltage is 1.2 V with …
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Microcontroller (MCU) Based Simplified Optimal Trajectory Control (SOTC) for High-Frequency LLC Resonant Converters
… widely used as a DC-DC converter due to its high efficiency, high power density and hold-up capability in power supplies for communication systems, computers and consumer electronics. Use of the high-frequency LLC converter has also been increasing in recent years due to its high power density and …
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Design and evaluation of a reconfigurable stacked active Bridge dc/dc converter for efficient wide load-range operation
… run in a low power mode that greatly increases light-load efficiency by reducing core loss and extending the zero-voltage switching (ZVS) range. The converter is implemented with a single compact magnetic component, providing power combining, isolation, and energy transfer inductance. The theory …
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Advanced Control Schemes for Voltage Regulators
… should be high in order to meet the stringent load-line requirements with the high current and high di/dt, otherwise, a lot of decoupling capacitors are necessary. Capacitors make the VR cost and size higher. Therefore, the VR control method is very important. This dissertation discusses the …
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Synchronous-Conduction-Mode Tapped-Inductor Buck Converter for Low-Power, High-Density Application
… conversion range, high power density and high efficiency topology for low power application. To achieve high efficiency at switching frequency of MHz-level, synchronous conduction mode (SCM) is applied for turn-on losses elimination. The operation principle and power stage design of SCM TI buck …
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Investigation of Alternative Power Architectures for CPU Voltage Regulators
… for voltage regulators (VRs). Firstly, high efficiency is required not only for easy thermal management, but also for saving on electricity costs for data centers, or battery life extension for laptop computers. At the same time, high power density is required due to the increased power of …
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Investigation of Multiphase Coupled-Inductor Buck Converters in Point-of-Load Applications
… are widely used in today's industrial point-of-load (POL) converters, especially the microprocessor voltage regulators (VRs). The issue of today's multiphase interleaving buck converters is the conflict between the high efficiency and the fast transient in the phase inductor design. In 2000, P. …
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Low-voltage High-efficiency Fast-transient Voltage regulator Module
… over conventional ones in power density, efficiency, transient response, reliability, and cost. The multi-module interleaved quasi-square-wave VRM topology achieves a very fast transient response and a very high power density. This topology significantly reduces the filter inductance and …
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High Efficiency Optimization of LLC Resonant Converter for Wide Load Range
… of telecom and computing equipment. High efficiency and high power density are still the key technology drivers for power management for these applications. In order to save energy, in 2005, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first draft of its proposed revision …
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Investigation of High Performance AC/DC Front-End Converter with Digital Control for Server Applications
… Recently industry brought out aggressively high efficiency requirements for a wide load range for power management in telecom and computing equipment. High efficiency over a wide load range is now a requirement. On the other hand, power density is still a big challenge for front-end AC/DC …
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Time-based control techniques for integrated DC-DC conversion
… 1.8V input voltage. With a 500mA step in the load current, the settling time is less than 3.5us and the measured reference tracking bandwidth is about 1MHz. Better than 94% peak efficiency is achieved while consuming a quiescent current of only 2uA/MHz. Second, the techniques are extended to a …
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Current-Mode Control: Modeling and its Digital Application
… to achieve current sharing, AVP control, and light-load efficiency improvement. Therefore, an accurate model for current-mode control is indispensable to system design due to the existence of subharmonic oscillations. The fundamental difference between current-mode control and voltage-mode …
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