摘要:
A control device for a switching voltage regulator includes: a first detector of a first measurement signal indicative of a current flowing in a first side of the regulator, and providing a first comparison signal as a function of a first threshold; a second detector of a second measurement signal indicative of a current flowing in a second side of the regulator, and providing a second comparison signal as a function of a second threshold; a driving-signal generation circuit which generates a switching control signal from the first comparison signal to drive the switching circuit; a calibration circuit which receives an alert signal indicative of the first threshold, compares the alert signal and the second comparison signal, and provides a calibration signal in response; and a feedback circuit which provides a control signal as a function of an error signal and of the calibration signal.
摘要:
A system includes lighting devices coupled to output supply pins, a microcontroller circuit, and a driver circuit, which receives data therefrom, and switches coupled in series to the lighting devices. The driver circuit includes output supply pins and selectively propagates a supply voltage to the output supply pins to provide respective pulse-width modulated supply signals at the output supply pins. The driver circuit computes duty-cycle values of the pulse-width modulated supply signals as a function of the data received from the microcontroller circuit. The lighting devices include at least one subset coupled to the same output supply pin. The microcontroller individually controls the switches via respective control signals to individually adjust a brightness of the lighting devices in the at least one subset of lighting devices.
摘要:
A method of operating a control device includes performing an open load test or a current leakage test. The open load test includes activating a first current and then a second current and sensing with the first current and the second current activated, respectively, a first voltage drop and a second voltage drop between charge distribution pins and charge sensing pins of the control device. Respective differences are calculated between the first voltage drop and the second voltage drop sensed with the first current and the second current activated, respectively. These differences are compared with respective thresholds and an open circuit condition is declared as a result of the differences calculated reaching these thresholds.
摘要:
A switched capacitor digital to analog converter includes first and second converter segments having respective first and second arrays of binary weighted capacitors. Each capacitor of the first segment has a first electrode connected to a first common node and a second electrode connected through respective switches to one of first and second reference voltage terminals. Each capacitor of the second segment has a first electrode connected to a second common node and a second electrode connected through respective switches to one of the first and second reference voltage terminals. The converter includes a coupling capacitor connected between the first and second common nodes and capacitance means connected between the first common node and a reference voltage terminal. The coupling capacitor and capacitance means have capacitances, Cs and CATT respectively, that substantially satisfy the relationship: (2pnull1)nullCsnullCATTnull2pnullC, where p is the number of bits coded in the first converter segment and C is the unit capacitance.