Power gating technique reduces leakage power in the circuit. However, power gating leads to large voltage fluctuation on the power rail during power gating mode to active mode due to the package inductance in the Printed Circuit Board. This voltage fluctuation may cause unwanted transitions in neighboring circuits. In this work, a power gating architecture is developed for minimizing power in a...

This paper presents a method for determining the network lines and buses where the occurrence of faults will lead to voltage sags causing severe financial losses in the power system. The proposed method is based on a typical stochastic assessment of voltage sags. The network regions where fault occurrences will simultaneously lead to voltage sags at different sensitive load points can be determ...

High-voltage direct current (HVDC) is a commonly used technology for long-distance power transmission, due to its low resistive losses and low costs. In this paper, a novel distributed controller for multi-terminal HVDC (MTDC) systems is proposed. Under certain conditions on the controller gains, it is shown to stabilize the MTDC system. The controller is shown to always keep the voltages close...

The paper proposes a novel self-reference voltage pre-regulator for LED driver chip. The system modeling of the self-reference voltage pre-regulator is established, which is composed of pre-regulator circuit and reference voltage generating circuit. The reference voltage generating circuit generates a reference voltage, in which the circuit returns the reference voltage as the reference voltage...

The paper presents design considerations for a 12-V/1.5-V, 50-A voltage regulator module (VRM) for the next generation of microprocessors. The module has stringent powerdensity and transient-response specifications, which are hard to meet with traditional design techniques. The proposed design solutions increase the VRM efficiency, as well as achieve the desired transient response with a minimu...

Let ). < i, be infinite cardinals and let Q be a set of cardinality 'c. The bounded permutation group B. (Q), or simply B2, is the group consisting of all permutations of Q which move fewer than A points in Q. We say that a permutation group G acting on Q is a supplement of B2 if BA G is the full symmetric group on Q. In [7], Macpherson and Neumann claimed to have classified all supplements of ...

Applying the voltage-mode hysteretic control to multiphase Voltage Regulator Modules (VRMs) can satisfy many of the new and future generation of microprocessors and ICs powering requirements. This is because of the numerous advantages that can be obtained when both techniques are used. However, several challenges arise that include current sharing, multiphase control signals distribution, high-...