Stability study of PC power system

Author

Wong, Pit-Leong ; Lee, Fred C. ; Zhou, Xunwei

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1646

Abstract

In this paper, the computer power system is studied from the point of view of system integration stability. The voltage regulator module (VRM) and silver-box are modeled and analyzed. The computer power system is unlikely to have stability problems based on today´s structure, although there can be strong interactions in a multiple VRM system. Future trends of the PC power system are also analyzed. With power level increases, VRMs will have stronger interactions at lower frequencies. An example of conditional stability is shown to challenge the impedance stability criterion of integrated systems. Possible solutions to this problem are provided

Keywords

computer power supplies; electric impedance; stability; voltage regulators; PC power system stability; computer power system; conditional stability; impedance stability criterion; integrated systems; multiple VRM system; silver-box; system integration stability; voltage regulator module; Emergency power supplies; Impedance; Power engineering computing; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Power system stability; Power system transients; Regulators; Stability criteria; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 1999. Thirty-Fourth IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5589-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.1999.805962

Filename

805962