Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Current balancing, current sensor, and phase balancing apparatus and method for a voltage regulator
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Application No.: US14543346Application Date: 2014-11-17
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Publication No.: US09733282B2Publication Date: 2017-08-15
- Inventor: Gerhard Schrom , J. Keith Hodgson , Alexander Lyakhov , Chiu Keung Tang , Narayanan Raghuraman , Narayanan Natarajan
- Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Green, Howard & Mughal LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/66
- IPC: H03M1/66 ; G01R19/00 ; H02M3/157 ; H03L5/00 ; G06T3/40 ; H02M3/156 ; H02M1/088 ; H02M3/158 ; H03M1/68 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods of current balancing, current sensing and phase balancing, offset cancellation, digital to analog current converter with monotonic output using binary coded input (without binary to thermometer decoder), compensator for a voltage regulator (VR), etc. are provided here. An apparatus is provided which comprises: a plurality of inductors coupled to a capacitor and a load; a plurality of bridges, each of which is coupled to a corresponding inductor from the plurality of inductors; and a plurality of current sensors, each of which is coupled to a bridge to sense current through a transistor of the bridge.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150069995A1 CURRENT BALANCING, CURRENT SENSOR, AND PHASE BALANCING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A VOLTAGE REGULATOR Public/Granted day:2015-03-12
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