Predicting Individual Phase Current in Couple Inductor Based Voltage Regulators (VRs)

Abstract

Coupled inductor is one appealing technology to improve transient response and reduce output decoupling significantly in interleaved multi-phase voltage regulators (VRs). One known problem is that there is no mature solution yet to sense the individual phase current accurately in a lossless way for couple inductor based VRs design. This will impact VR some normal function in one phase mode. This paper proposes a new solution to this problem and simulation is conducted to verify effectiveness of the proposal.

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Liang, X. and Li, Y. (2015) Predicting Individual Phase Current in Couple Inductor Based Voltage Regulators (VRs). Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 3, 69-76. doi: 10.4236/jpee.2015.34011.

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