Recent years have seen the proliferation of electronic devices that require multi-phase power converters to provide heterogeneous power rails to different systems. Typical systems will utilize symmetric interleaving as a method of reducing the input current ripple for the power converter. Asymmetric interleaving is a method of control that allows for a further reduction, and in some cases complete cancellation, of this input current ripple. This work looks at some of the challenges for a practical implementation using digital control, and provides results to quantify this improvement. This work demonstrates a control algorithm implementation capable of achieving nearly 3x reduction in the input current ripple via the asymmetric interleaving method.
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