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公开(公告)号:US10958163B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-23
申请号:US16820555
申请日:2020-03-16
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Lilly Huang , Christopher Schaef , Vaibhav Vaidya , Suhwan Kim
Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with deriving power output from an energy harvester are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry to identify a plurality of times at which an intermediate voltage of a two stage power conversion circuit corresponds to a voltage reference, and ascertain an amount of time between one of the identified times and another one of the identified times. The one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry may derive a power or current value associated with the second power supply using the amount of time.
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公开(公告)号:US10958079B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-23
申请号:US15939120
申请日:2018-03-28
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Xiaosen Liu , Khondker Z. Ahmed , Vivek K. De , Nachiket V. Desai , Suhwan Kim , Harish K. Krishnamurthy , Turbo Majumder , Krishnan Ravichandran , Christopher Schaef , Vaibhav A. Vaidya , Sriram R. Vangal
Abstract: In one embodiment, an energy harvesting system includes multiple-input-multiple-output switched-capacitor (MIMOSC) circuitry comprising a plurality of switched-capacitor circuit units to receive a plurality of direct current (DC) input voltages at respective input terminals of the switched-capacitor circuit unit, combine the received DC input voltages, and provide the combined DC input voltages at an output terminal of the switched-capacitor circuit unit. The energy harvesting system also includes maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuitry coupled to switches of the switched-capacitor circuit units of the MIMOSC circuitry. The MPPT circuitry is to provide a plurality of switching signals to the switches of the switched-capacitor circuit units. The MIMOSC circuitry is to provide a plurality of DC output voltages to respective loads based on the switching signals from the MPPT circuitry.
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公开(公告)号:US10942556B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-09
申请号:US15682724
申请日:2017-08-22
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Dileep J. Kurian , Ankit Gupta , Akhila M , Tanay Karnik , Vaibhav Vaidya , David Arditti Ilitzky , Christopher Schaef , Sriram Kabisthalam Muthukumar , Harish K. Krishnamurthy , Suhwan Kim
IPC: G06F1/3203 , G06F1/3212 , G06F1/26 , H02J7/34 , H02J7/00
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for early pre-charge with respect to peak power events. Application performance may improve by pre-charging a supercap just prior to initiating a system wake up from a qualified system wake-source trigger. Additionally, the pre-charging of the supercap may be controlled by a time defined pre-charge period and may also be controlled by a predetermined threshold voltage.
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公开(公告)号:US10720831B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-21
申请号:US15855683
申请日:2017-12-27
Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
Inventor: Christopher Schaef , Vaibhav Vaidya , Suhwan Kim
Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus for reference voltage generation includes a plurality of reference voltage rails each with a corresponding reference voltage, a first controller, and a second controller. The first controller is to cycle through the plurality of reference voltage rails and maintain the reference voltages in a synchronous mode. The second controller is to detect an event and provide an indication to the first controller to update in an asynchronous mode one of the plurality of reference voltages in response to the event. The first controller is to update in an asynchronous mode the one of the plurality of reference voltages in response to the event.
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公开(公告)号:US10298117B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-21
申请号:US15638643
申请日:2017-06-30
Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
Inventor: Harish Krishnamurthy , Khondker Ahmed , Vivek De , Nachiket Desai , Suhwan Kim , Xiaosen Liu , Turbo Majumder , Krishnan Ravichandran , Christopher Schaef , Vaibhav Vaidya , Sriram Vangal
Abstract: Embodiments described herein describe operating a master-slave controller. Operating the master-slave controller comprises, based on a determination that the first output voltage value is greater than the second output voltage value, calculating a first duty cycle value and an input voltage value and the second voltage regulator, calculating a second duty cycle value based on the first duty cycle value, and based on a determination that the second output voltage value is greater than or equal to the first output voltage value, calculating the second duty cycle value based on the second output voltage value and the input voltage value and calculating the first duty cycle value based on the second duty cycle value and configuring the first voltage regulator with the first duty cycle value and the second voltage regulator with the second duty cycle value.
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公开(公告)号:US20190064907A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-28
申请号:US15682724
申请日:2017-08-22
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Dileep J. Kurian , Ankit Gupta , Akhila M , Tanay Karnik , Vaibhav Vaidya , David Arditti Ilitzky , Christopher Schaef , Sriram Kabisthalam Muthukumar , Harish K. Krishnamurthy , Suhwan Kim
IPC: G06F1/32
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for early pre-charge with respect to peak power events. Application performance may improve by pre-charging a supercap just prior to initiating a system wake up from a qualified system wake-source trigger. Additionally, the pre-charging of the supercap may be controlled by a time defined pre-charge period and may also be controlled by a predetermined threshold voltage.
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公开(公告)号:US20180375433A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-27
申请号:US15632086
申请日:2017-06-23
Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
Inventor: Khondker Ahmed , Vivek De , Nachiket Desai , Suhwan Kim , Harish Krishnamurthy , Xiaosen Liu , Turbo Majumder , Krishnan Ravichandran , Christopher Schaef , Vaibhav Vaidya , Sriram Vangal
CPC classification number: H02M3/1582 , G05F1/67 , H02M1/08 , H02M2001/0003 , H02M2001/0009 , H02M2001/0025
Abstract: Embodiments described herein concern operating a peak-delivered-power (PDP) controller. Operating a PDP includes calculating the new power output value from the output voltage value and the output current value, determining whether the new power output value is greater than the previous power output value to determine whether the voltage regulator is outputting a maximum power output, based on a determination that the new power output value is greater than the previous power output value, providing an instruction to a duty generator to increase a duty cycle of the voltage regulator, based on a determination that the new power output value is not greater than the previous power output value, providing an instruction to the duty generator to decrease the duty cycle of the voltage regulator, and replacing the previous power output value with the new power output value.
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公开(公告)号:US11336270B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-17
申请号:US17006726
申请日:2020-08-28
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Nachiket Desai , Suhwan Kim , Harish Krishnamurthy , Christopher Schaef
IPC: H03K3/00 , H03K3/037 , H03K5/24 , H03K17/687
Abstract: A digital self-start controller, which is functional without fuse and/or trim information. The self-start controller protects a DC-DC converter against large inrush currents and voltage overshoots, while being capable of following a variable VID (voltage identification) reference ramp imposed by the system. The self-start controller uses a relaxation oscillator to set the switching frequency of the DC-DC converter. The oscillator can be initialized using either a clock or current reference to be close to a desired operating frequency. The output of the DC-DC converter is coupled weakly to the oscillator to set the duty cycle for closed loop operation. The controller is naturally biased such that the output supply voltage is always slightly higher than a set point, eliminating the need for any process, voltage, and/or temperature (PVT) imposed trims.
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公开(公告)号:US20220069703A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-03
申请号:US17009661
申请日:2020-09-01
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Harish Krishnamurthy , Sheldon Weng , Nachiket Desai , Suhwan Kim , Fabrice Paillet
Abstract: A digital control scheme controls an integrator of a PID filter to implement non-linear control of saturating the duty cycle during which the proportional and derivative terms of the PID filter are set to 0 while the integrator and its internal states (previous values or memory) is set to a duty cycle that is the sum of the current nominal duty cycle plus a deltaD. The deltaD is the maximum duty cycle increment that is used to regulate a voltage regulator from ICCmin to ICCmax and is a configuration register that can be set post silicon. An FSM moves from a non-linear all ON state to an open loop duty cycle which maintains the output voltage slightly higher than the required Vref. After a certain period in this open loop, the FSM then ramps down the open loop duty cycle value until the output voltage is close to the Vref.
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公开(公告)号:US10938327B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-02
申请号:US15721548
申请日:2017-09-29
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Suhwan Kim , Vaibhav Vaidya , Christopher Schaef
Abstract: An embodiment of a harvester apparatus comprising two or more charge pump stages may include at least a first charge pump stage to receive an alternating current source, and a second charge pump stage coupled to the first charge pump stage.
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