Title :
Effective Load Resistance; A New Method to Evaluate DC/DC converters Efficiency
Author_Institution :
Fairchild Semicond., San Jose, CA
Abstract :
This paper offers an alternative to efficiency measurements as an evaluation tool of power supplies. The proposed method works well with little dependency on the output voltage and temperature
Keywords :
DC-DC power convertors; electric resistance measurement; losses; power supplies to apparatus; DC-DC converters; converter efficiency; effective load resistance; effective loss resistance measurement; power conversion efficiency; power loss; power supplies; synchronous buck converter losses; Buck converters; DC-DC power converters; Electrical resistance measurement; Equations; Power conversion; Power measurement; Power supplies; Switching frequency; Thermal engineering; Voltage; DC-DC Converter power loss; Effective Loss Resistance; Power Efficiency; component;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2006. IPEMC 2006. CES/IEEE 5th International
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0448-7
DOI :
10.1109/IPEMC.2006.4778003