Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for sensing inductor current across range exceeding ADC dynamic range and PWM controller system including ADC therefor
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Application No.: US16357212Application Date: 2019-03-18
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Publication No.: US11067611B2Publication Date: 2021-07-20
- Inventor: Travis Guthrie , Narendra Kayathi
- Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS AMERICA INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Milpitas
- Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS AMERICA INC.
- Current Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS AMERICA INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Milpitas
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: G01R19/257
- IPC: G01R19/257 ; H03F3/217 ; G01R19/00 ; H02M3/157 ; G01R19/25

Abstract:
According to certain aspects, a predictive tracking scheme is provided for sampling inductor currents in a digital PWM controller used for high-bandwidth voltage regulation. In one or more embodiments, the predicted current derived from the PWM waveform is fed forward to the current sense ADC in order to reduce the required conversion range. These and other embodiments only need to convert a few of the LSB of the ADC in order to correct the largest error expected in the synthesizer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190293695A1 PREDICTIVE TRACKING ADC FOR INDUCTOR CURRENT SENSING IN A PWM CONTROLLER Public/Granted day:2019-09-26
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