Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power balancer for series-connected load zones of an integrated circuit
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Application No.: US16806521Application Date: 2020-03-02
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Publication No.: US10985652B1Publication Date: 2021-04-20
- Inventor: Shuai Jiang , Gregory Sizikov , Mikhail Popovich
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G05F1/577
- IPC: G05F1/577 ; H02M3/07 ; G05F1/613 ; G05F1/62 ; G05F1/618

Abstract:
This disclosure relates to power balancer circuits that enable multiple load zones of an IC to be powered in series while maintaining balanced voltage at each load zone. In one aspect, a circuit includes load zones that are powered in series. The circuit includes a power balancer for balancing a voltage across each load zone. The power balancer includes an equivalent DC transformer array that includes, for each load zone, an equivalent DC transformer connected in parallel with the load zone. The power balancer includes, for each load zone, a bus capacitor connected in parallel with the load zone. Each equivalent DC transformer is electrically connected to each other equivalent DC transformer providing an electrical path for each bus capacitor to discharge current to each other bus capacitor when a voltage across a bus capacitor is greater than a voltage across another bus capacitor.
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