Model Current-Mode Control With Ease and Accuracy

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM
By Rendon Holloway, Principal Engineer, Fairchild Semiconductor, San Jose, Calif., and Gabriel Eirea, Ph.D., Instituto de Ingenieria Electrica, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay

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