Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sense circuit for buck converter circuit
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Application No.: US16290794Application Date: 2019-03-01
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Publication No.: US10972007B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Floyd L. Dankert , Jitendra K. Agrawal , Dingkun Du
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F1/32
- IPC: G06F1/32 ; H02M3/158 ; H02M1/08 ; G06F1/28 ; G06F1/3296 ; H02M1/00 ; G06F1/3203

Abstract:
A voltage regulator circuit included in a computer system may include multiple devices and a switch node coupled to a regulated power supply node via an inductor. The voltage regulator circuit may, using different subsets of the multiple devices, charge a capacitor for a first period of time and then couple the switch node to the capacitor for a second period of time. A control circuit may sense, using a common circuit, different characteristics of a current through the inductor during respective operation modes, and adjust the first and second periods of time based on the different characteristics of the current and a current operation mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200280257A1 SENSE CIRCUIT FOR BUCK CONVERTER CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2020-09-03
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