Mor M. Peretz
July 2014
CURRICULUM VITAE
 Personal details
Name:
Mor Mordechai Peretz
Date and place of birth:
November 6th, 1979, Beer-sheva, Israel
Marital status:
Married, 2 children
Contacts:
Office:
Home:
Power Electronics Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1 Ben-Gurion blvd.
Beer-sheva
84105
Israel
E&CE building (33)
Room 301
E-mail: morp@ee.bgu.ac.il
13 Midbaron st., Lehavim, 85338, Israel
Tel:
Cell: +972-54-574-7695
 Special details
Military service terminated due to injury. IAF, maintenance wing, corporal.
 Education
2003:
Summa cum laude
2nd of class 2003
B. Tech. EE
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Negev Academic College of Engineering,
Beer-sheva, Israel.
2005:
Magna cum laude
thesis mark-98
M. Sc. E&CE
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel.
Topic: Self-adjusting sinusoidal power source suitable for driving capacitive
loads
Academic supervisor: Prof. Shmuel Ben-Yaakov
2010:
Ph. D. E&CE
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel.
Topic: Time-domain design of digital controllers for PWM converters
Academic supervisor: Prof. Shmuel Ben-Yaakov
2010 – 2012:
Post-Doctorate Fellow
Laboratory for Low-Power Management and Integrated SMPS
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Host: Prof. Aleksandar Prodić
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Previous studies
(non-academic)
1997 – 1999:
Magna cum laude
July 2014
Practical Engineering
Israeli Air Forces Technological College, Beer-sheva, Israel.
 Employment History
Academic
2012 Lecturer
Power Electronics Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
12 graduate students (2014)
10 undergraduate senior projects (2014)
2010 – 2012:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UofT
Post-Doctorate Fellow:
Co-advisor of students in various levels: PhD (1), MSc(2), Undergraduate (5).
Research activities:
Digital control, miniaturization of low-power SMPS, solid-state lighting applications,
non-linear magnetic. Mixed-mode IC design for power electronics
2004 – 2010:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel.
Lecturer :
1.
Advanced features and applications for computer aided design of electronic
circuits (Initiated in 2005, embedded into curriculum in 2006, ongoing 4 th year
undergraduate elective course)
www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~spice
Teaching assistant:
1.
Switch-mode DC-DC converters
www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~dcdc
2.
Electronics instrumentation (laboratory) – guide and moderator
3.
Introduction to Electrical Engineering (Laboratory)
4.
Software tools – Matlab, Pspice
Research assistant:
Power Electronics Laboratory E&CE, BGU.
Research activities:
Digital control, Real-time control algorithms, Switch-mode Converters, Modeling and
computer aided design of linear and non-linear systems, Analysis of envelope
dependent systems, Non-linear magnetics, Resonant conversion systems.
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2003:
Research assistant:
Power Electronics Laboratory E&CE, BGU.
Negev Academic College of Engineering, Beer-sheva, Israel.
Teaching assistant - Industrial electronics
Industry
2010
2007, 2008
2006 – 2008
1999:
Elbit
Power Electronics expert – Introduction to Power Electronics and switch-mode power
supplies (delivered 1 week course)
EDA integrity solutions (Cadence)
Simulation expert – delivery of three seminars (1 weak each) on Pspice simulation,
audience analog hi-tech industry experts in Israel.
Charge-n-go Ltd.
Development of portable cordless battery charger for consumer applications. Design,
development, prototyping and production.
Instrumentation Technician, IAF, Corporal
 Professional Activities
Member
IEEE Power Electronics society
IEEE Industrial Electronics society
IEEE Industry Applications society
Reviewer
Journals
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
IET Power Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Conferences (main)
IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference
IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference
IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
Topic Chair
2013 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
Technical committee
2014 IEEE workshop on Control and Modeling in Power Electronics
Guest Associate Editor
2015 IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics on Power Electronics, Special Issue
on LED Drivers
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 Educational Activities
Current research
Digital control of power management systems
Efficient energy processing and power supply miniaturization
Power system on-chip – VLSI
Integration of digital signal processing in power applications
Renewable energy systems - (panel and cell level)
Energy harvesting applications – Especially biomech harvesting
Pulsed power
Nonlinear power magnetics applications
Magnetic actuation systems
Lighting - fluorescent, LED, HID
Additional Information
Co-Director – Power Electronics Laboratory
Increased activity in the VLSI center
Member of technical staff committee
Member of seminars committee
Courses taught
361-1-4561: Switch-Mode Power Supplies (New material)
361-1-3671: Analog Electronic Circuits (Renewed)
361-2-2020: Digital Control of Switch-mode converters (Original and unique material)
361-2-5221: Challenges in electronic circuits design (New material)
Undergraduate projects
Supervisor
2013
Supervised a total of 4 projects
2014
Supervising a total of 10 projects
Research students
2010-2012 (UofT)
Behzad Merhabad – PhD
Shikh-Muhamad Ahsanuzzaman – MSc
Ktalin Aghiar – MSc
Michael Chen
Nikhil Goyal
Arina Kolo
Kong Yang
Tim McRae
2013
Alon Cervera, Gyrator Behaved Resonant Switched Capacitor Converter for Renewable
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Energy Applications (MSc). Thesis mark – 100, December 2013.
Alon Blumenfeld, Peristaltic connected converters control (MSc)
Yara Halihal, A High Gain DC-DC Converter for Energy Harvesting of Low Input
Voltage Sources (MSc)
Zeev Rubinshtein, Power converter and control for a biomechanical energy harvesting
system (MSc). Thesis mark – 94, December 2013.
Eli Hamo, Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters (MSc)
Yevgeny Bezdenezhnykh, State-space oriented digital control of SMPS (MSc)
Michael Evzelman, Topologies, losses and applications of Switched-Capacitor
Converters (PhD). Thesis submitted, August 2013.
2014
Alon Cervera – PhD, Received the Negev-Krietman Fellowship for PhD. Dean’s list of
honor for academic and research achievements.
Martin Melinkovsky – PhD
Nikolay Telzhensky – PhD (prospective)
Or Kirshenboim – MSc
Ofer Ezra – MSc
Rotem Cohen – MSc
Idan Ozana – MSc
Eli Abramov – MSc
Timor Vekslander - MSc
 Awards, Honors and Scholarships
2014:
The Electrical Engineering Department “Teaching Excellence” recognition, BenGurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, March, 2014.
2010-2013:
Bikura (first) post-doc Fellowship, Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Full program
award (fellowship + reintegration support)
On the basis of academic and research excellence.
This award was granted to only 6 doctoral students in nationwide competition.
2010-2011:
NSERC post doctorate program
2010:
BGU ‘return-path’ grant for postdoctoral research
2008:
Adams fellowship, Israel academy of sciences and humanities. On the basis of
academic and research excellence.
This award was granted to only 10 doctoral students in nation wide competition.
2008:
Wolf Foundation PhD scholarship, awarded for outstanding academic and research
achievements.
2007:
Dean’s list of honor, dean of engineering faculty award for PhD students. On the basis
of academic and research excellence for PhD students. Sole winner.
Kreitman school Fellowship for outstanding Ph.D. candidates
2006:
2004 – 2005:
Hamer scholarship, Israeli council for higher education. On the basis of academic
excellence in bachelor degree studies in non-university facilities. This award was
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granted to only 10 M. Sc. students in nation wide competition.
2003:
Academic distinction award for the B. Tech. studies.
Summa cum laude
2003:
Academic distinction award for the 4th year of undergraduate studies.
Summa cum laude
2003:
Best undergraduate project award.
(Stabilized borderline Active Power Factor Correction for universal utility grid)
2002:
Academic distinction award for the 3rd year of undergraduate studies.
Magna cum laude
 Research Grants
Received/active
2013: Pulsed-power apparatus, Orion Advanced Systems. 500K NIS
2013-14: A Peristaltic Power Equalizer, Kamin MAGNET. 400K NIS / year (Co PI with
Prof. Ben-Yaakov)
2013-15: Biomechanical energy harvesting, MAFAT, 200K NIS/year (Jointly with Dr.
Raziel Riemer and Dr. Amir Shapiro)
Pazi 2013-17 (VATAT and Ministry of Energy) – Cell-Level Balancing of PV Arrays
(with RAFAEL). 250K NIS/year
Submitted
ISF 2014 (submitted) – Efficient Energy Processing and Volume Reduction of Power
Management Systems
 List of publications
Current H-index: 3
Papers in journals
Citation index – not including own refs. – Rank, (ISI) (GoogleScholar)
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S. Ben-YaakovPI and M. M. Peretz , “Simulation bits: A SPICE behavioral model of non-linear inductors”,
IEEE Power Electronics Society Newsletter, Fourth Quarter, 9-10, 2003. (15 citations; IF NA; NA; NA)
INVITED PAPER
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S. Ben-YaakovPI and M. M. Peretz , “Simulation bits: Some Less Familiar Features of PSpice”, IEEE Power
Electronics Society Newsletter, Second Quarter, 16-18 2005. (2 citations; IF NA; NA; NA)
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M. M. Peretz and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “The Self-Adjusting Current-Fed Push-Pull Parallel Resonant Inverter
as a High Frequency AC Bus Driver”, Journal of Science and Engineering, B2, 3-4, 352-364, 2005. (1
citations; IF NA; NA; NA)
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S. Ben-YaakovPI and M. M. Peretz , “A Self-Adjusting Sinusoidal Power Source Suitable for Driving
Capacitive Loads”, IEEE Trans, on Power Electronics. Vol. 21, No. 4, 890-898, 2006. (15 citations; IF 4.85;
15/450; Q1)
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S. Ben-YaakovPI and M. M. Peretz , “Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps Driven by Piezoelectric
Transformers: Stability Conditions and Thermal Effect”, IEEE Trans, on Power Electronics. Vol. 22, No. 3,
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761-768, 2007. (9 citations; IF 4.85; 15/450; Q1)
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A. AbramovitzPI and M. M. Peretz , “Effect of the Ripple Current on Power Factor of CRM Boost Apfc”,
Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 17, No. 2, 389-398, 2008. (3 citations; IF NA; NA; NA)
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M. M. Peretz and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Digital control of resonant converters: Resolution effect on frequency
limit cycles”, IEEE Trans, on Power Electronics. Vol. 25, No. 10, 1652 - 1661, 2010. (11 citations; IF 4.85;
15/450; Q1)
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M. M. Peretz and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Time-domain design of digital compensators for PWM DC-DC
converters”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics. Vol. 27, No. 1, 284 - 293, 2012. (3 citations; IF 4.85; 15/450;
Q1)
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M. M. PeretzS and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Time domain identification of PWM converters”, IET Power
Electronics. Vol. 5, N. 2, 166 - 172, 2012. (2 citations; IF 1.1; 83/450; Q1)
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10. * M.M. Peretz and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Digital control of resonant converters: enhancing frequency resolution
by dithering”, International Journal of Electronics. 2013. (NA; IF 4.85; 237/450; Q3)
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11. * M.M. PeretzPD-PI, B. Merhabad , and A. ProdicPI, “Hardware-efficient programmable-deviation controller for
indirect energy transfer dc-dc converter”. IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics. Accepted Jan. 2014. (NA; IF
4.85; 15/450; Q1)
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12. * A. Cervera , M. Evzelman , M.M. Peretz , and S. Ben-Yaakov , "A high efficiency resonant switched
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capacitor converter with continuous conversion ratio, " IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics . Accepted Jan.
2014. (NA; IF 4.85; 15/450; Q1)
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* E. Hamo , A. Cervera , and M.M. PeretzPI, " Multiple Conversion Ratio Resonant Switched-Capacitor
Converter with Active Zero Current Detection," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics . Accepted Mar. 2014.
(NA; IF 4.85; 15/450; Q1)
* A. BlumenfeldS, A. CerveraS, and M.M. PeretzPI, “Enhanced Differential Power Processor for PV Systems:
Resonant Switched-Capacitor Gyrator Converter with Local MPPT”, IEEE Jour. on Emerging Tech in Power
Electronics. Accepted Mar. 2014. (NA; NA; NA; Q1)
E. HamoS, M. EvzelmanS, and M.M. PeretzPI, "modeling and losses evaluation of self ZCS resonant SCC,"
IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics. Accepted July. 2014. (NA; IF 4.85; 15/450; Q1)
M. EvzelmanS and M. M. PeretzPI, “Optimal Design of a Class-E Resonant Driver”, IET Power Electronics.
Accepted July 2014. (2 citations; IF 1.1; 83/450; Q1)
Papers in refereed conference proceedings (full papers)
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S. Ben-YaakovPI and M. M. PeretzS, “A Self-Adjusting Sinusoidal Power Source Suitable for Driving
Capacitive Loads”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, APEC-04, 1832-1837, Anaheim, 2004. (IF
0.74; 125/450; Q2)
S. Ben-YaakovPI and M. M. PeretzS, “Modeling and Behavioral SPICE Simulation of a Self Adjusting PushPull Resonant Inverter (SA-CFPPRI)”, IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC-04, 61-67,
Aachen, 2004. (IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
M. M. PeretzPI and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “The Self-Adjusting Current-Fed Push-PULL Parallel Resonant
Inverter as a High Frequency AC Bus Driver” 23rd IEEE Israel Conference IEEEI-04, 52-55, Tel-Aviv, 2004.
S. Ben-YaakovPI, M. M. PeretzPI and B. HestermanC “A SPICE Compatible Behavioral Model of a Heated
Tungsten Filament” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference APEC’05, 1079-1084, Austin, Texas, 2005.
(IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
M. M. PeretzS and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Analysis of the Current-Fed Push-Pull Parallel Resonant Inverter
Implemented with Unidirectional Switch”, IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC-05.
S. Ben-YaakovPI, M.M. PeretzPI, and S. LineykinS, “Stability of cold cathode fluorescent lamps driven by
piezoelectric transformers”. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, APEC-2006, 1517-1522, Dallas,
Texas, 2006. (IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
M.M. PeretzS, S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Thermal effects on the stability of piezoelectric transformers based ballasts
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for cold cathode fluorescent lamps”. IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC-2006, 23282334, Jeju, Korea, 2006.
M.M. PeretzS, S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Investigation of Time Domain Design of Digital Controllers for PWM
Converters”, 24th IEEE Israel Conference IEEEI-06, 300 – 304, Eilat, 2006.
S. Ben-YaakovPI, M.M. PeretzS, J. M. Parra Sr. C, J. M. Parra Jr. C, “Self-Oscillating Constant-Current
Fluorescent Lamp Driver”, 24th IEEE Israel Conference IEEEI-06, 32-36, Eilat, 2006.
M.M. PeretzS, S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Time Domain Design of Digital Controllers for PWM Converters”, IEEE
Applied Power Electronics Conference, APEC-2007, 887 – 893, Anaheim, 2007. (IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
M.M. PeretzS, S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Time domain identification of PWM converters for digital controllers
design”, IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC-2007, 809-813, Orlando, 2007.
S. Ben-YaakovPI, M.M. PeretzS, J. M. Parra Sr. C, J. M. Parra Jr. C, “self-oscillating constant-current
fluorescent lamp driver: Theory and Application”, IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC2007, 3093-3099, Orlando, 2007.
M.M. PeretzS, S. Ben-YaakovPI, Revisiting the Closed Loop Response of PWM Converter Controlled by
Voltage Feedback, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, APEC-2008, Austin, 2008. (IF 0.74;
125/450; Q2)
M. M. PeretzS and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “A Novel time-domain based design of PWM controllers for switchmode converters and its implementation by the C2000 DSP family”, European DSP Education & Research
Symposium, EDERS-2008, 89-96, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2008.
M. M. PeretzS and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Time-domain identification of PWM converters aided by the C2000
DSP family”. European DSP Education & Research Symposium, EDERS-2008, 185-192, Tel-Aviv, Israel,
2008.
M. M. PeretzS and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Digital control of resonant converters: enhancing frequency resolution
by dithering”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, APEC-2009, Washington, DC, 2009. (IF 0.74;
125/450; Q2)
M. M. PeretzS and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “Digital control of resonant converters: frequency limit cycles
conditions”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, APEC-2009, Washington, DC, 2009. (IF 0.74;
125/450; Q2)
M. M. PeretzS and S. Ben-YaakovPI, “A Heuristic Digital Control Method for Optimal Capacitor Charging”,
IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo, ECCE-2009, 1118-1125, San-Jose, Ca, 2009.
S.M. AhsanuzzamanS, T. McRaeS, M.M. PeretzPD-PI, and A. ProdicPI, “Low volume dc-dc converter with
adaptive inductor core biasing”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, APEC-2012,335 – 339,
Orlando, FL, 2012. (IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
M.M. PeretzPD-PI, N. GoyalS, M. ChenS, and A. ProdicPI, “A merged-stage high efficiency high power factor
HB-LED driver without electrolytic capacitor”. International Exhibition and Conference for Power
Electronics, PCIM-2012, 357-364. Nuremberg, Germany, 2012.
B. MerhabadS, M.M. PeretzPD-PI, and A. ProdicPI, “Low volume power supply for vehicular fuel injection
systems”, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Conference, IECON-2012. Montreal, QC, 2012. (IF 0.28;
248/450; Q2)
* M. M. PeretzPI, “Hybrid Control Method for Optimal Transient Response and Output Filter Minimization
for Buck-Boost type Converters”, International Exhibition and Conference for Power Electronics, PCIM2012, Nuremberg, Germany, 2013.
* E. HamoS, M. M. PeretzPI, and S. Ben-YaakovC, “Resonant Binary and Fibonacci Switched-Capacitor
Bidirectional DC-DC Converter”, IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel,
IEEEI-2012, 1-5, Eilat, Israel, 2012.
* S.M. AhsanuzzamanS, M.M. PeretzPD-PI, and A. ProdicPI, “A novel power management architecture with
universal ac-dc adapter support for battery powered applications”. EPE-ECCE 2013.
* A. CerveraS, M. EvzelmanS, M.M. PeretzPI, and S. Ben-Yaakov, "A high efficiency resonant switched
capacitor converter with continuous conversion ratio, "IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
(ECCE), 2013.
* E. HamoS, A. CerveraS, and M.M. PeretzPI, " Multiple Conversion Ratio Resonant Switched-Capacitor
Converter with Active Zero Current Detection," IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE),
2013.
* M. EvzelmanS and M. M. PeretzPI, “Optimal Design of a Class-E Resonant Driver”, IEEE Energy
Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2013.
* A. BlumenfeldS, A. CerveraS, and M.M. PeretzPI, "Peristaltic power equalizer and local MPPT for serially
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connected PV arrays”, "IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf., APEC-2014. (IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
29. * A. CerveraS, M.M. PeretzPI, " Resonant Switched-Capacitor Voltage Regulator with Ideal Transient
Response", IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf., APEC-2014. (IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
30. * E. HamoS, M. EvzelmanS, and M.M. PeretzPI, "modeling and losses evaluation of self ZCS resonant SCC,"
IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf., APEC-2014. (IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
31. * Z. RubinshteinS, M. M. PeretzPI, and R. RiemerC, “Biomechanical energy harvesting”, IEEE Applied Power
Electronics Conf., APEC-2014(IF 0.74; 125/450; Q2)
32. Y. HalihalS, Y. BezdenezhnykhS, I. OzanaS, and M. M. PeretzPI, “Full FPGA-Based Design of a PWM/CPM Controller
with Integrated High-Resolution Fast ADC and DPWM Peripherals”, IEEE workshop on Control and Modeling in Power
Electronics, COMPEL-2014.
33. A. BlumenfeldS and M. M. PeretzPI, “Digital Control of PV Systems: Dynamic-Gain MPPT Algorithm and Effects of
Resolution”, IEEE workshop on Control and Modeling in Power Electronics, COMPEL-2014.
Patents
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A. Cervera, A, Blumenfeld, S. Ben-Yaakov, M.M. Peretz, A Peristaltic Power Equalizer, application No. is
61/6fac79,738.
A. Cervera, A, Blumenfeld, S. Ben-Yaakov, M.M. Peretz, Gyrator current source covverter.
M. M. Peretz, A. Prodic, Single-stage high-efficiency high power factor HBLED driver without electrolytic
capacitor (Prov.)
M. M. Peretz, Full FPGA-Based Design of a PWM/CPM Controller with Integrated High-Resolution Fast
ADC and DPWM Peripherals (Prov.)
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