Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Selectable conversion ratio DC-DC converter
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Application No.: US17017030Application Date: 2020-09-10
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Publication No.: US11368086B2Publication Date: 2022-06-21
- Inventor: Walid Fouad Mohamed Aboueldahab
- 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 & McFarland LLP
- Agent John Land, Esq.
- Main IPC: H02M3/07
- IPC: H02M3/07 ; H02M3/158 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
A single integrated circuit DC-to-DC conversion solution that can be used in conjunction with product designs requiring at least two different DC-to-DC conversion ratios, and in particular both divide-by-2 and divide-by-3 DC-to-DC buck conversion ratios or both multiply-by-2 and multiply-by-3 DC-to-DC boost conversion ratios. Embodiments are reconfigurable between a first Dickson converter configuration that includes at least two non-parallel capacitors (any of which may be off-chip) and associated controlled multi-phase switching to achieve a first conversion ratio, and a second Dickson converter configuration that includes a lesser equivalent number of capacitors than the first circuit configuration (which may be accomplished by parallelizing at least two non-parallel capacitors of the first configuration) and associated controlled multi-phase switching to achieve a second conversion ratio different from the first conversion ratio.
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