Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Galvanic isolation circuit and system and a corresponding method of operation
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Application No.: US16371919Application Date: 2019-04-01
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Publication No.: US10917091B2Publication Date: 2021-02-09
- Inventor: Alessandro Parisi , Nunzio Greco , Nunzio Spina , Egidio Ragonese , Giuseppe Palmisano
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Crowe & Dunlevy
- Priority: IT102018000004174 20180403
- Main IPC: H03K7/08
- IPC: H03K7/08 ; H03K17/691 ; H03K17/723 ; H03K17/722 ; H03B5/06 ; H03L7/08 ; H03L7/06 ; H03L7/183 ; H02M3/335 ; H02M1/00 ; H01F19/08

Abstract:
An oscillator is coupled to a first side of a galvanic barrier for supplying thereto an electric supply signal. The oscillator is configured to be alternatively turned on and off as a function of a PWM drive signal applied thereto. A receiver circuit coupled to the galvanic barrier receives therefrom a PWM power control signal. A signal reconstruction circuit coupled between the receiver circuit block and the oscillator provides to the oscillator a PWM drive signal reconstructed from the PWM power control signal. The signal reconstruction circuit includes a PLL circuit coupled to the receiver circuit block and configured to lock to the PWM control signal from the receiver circuit block. A PLL loop within the PLL circuit is sensitive to the PWM drive signal applied to the oscillator. The PLL loop is configured to be opened as a result of the power supply oscillator being turned off.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190305775A1 GALVANIC ISOLATION CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM AND A CORRESPONDING METHOD OF OPERATION Public/Granted day:2019-10-03
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