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- Patent Title: Shared comparator for charge pumps
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Application No.: US16708112Application Date: 2019-12-09
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Publication No.: US10797594B1Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Brian Zanchi , Aichen Low
- Applicant: pSemi Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: pSemi Corporation
- Current Assignee: pSemi Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Jaquez Land Greenhaus LLP
- Agent John Land, Esq.
- Main IPC: H02M3/07
- IPC: H02M3/07 ; H03K5/24 ; G01R31/64 ; G01R19/00 ; G01R17/00

Abstract:
Power converter circuits, including DC-DC converter circuits, that conserve IC area by utilizing more area-efficient alternatives for measurement circuitry. Various embodiments include a power converter circuit including a charge pump having a plurality of stack-nodes VCXM and at least one multiplexor for coupling selected stack-nodes VCXM to a corresponding comparator circuit configured to output a signal indicative of a difference between a selected input to the multiplexor and a reference signal. The number of comparator circuits is less than (N−1)×M, where N is the conversion gain of the power converter circuit (i.e., the number of charge pump stages X plus one), and M is the number of parallel charge pump legs. Related methods include measuring voltages at stack-nodes VCXM in a charge pump, wherein the stack-nodes VCXM are selected by means of a multiplexor and an input to a comparator.
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