Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Current balancing for voltage regulator units in field programmable arrays
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Application No.: US17534362Application Date: 2021-11-23
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Publication No.: US11671017B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Gang Ren , Peng Zou , Syrus Ziai , Curtis Roger McAllister
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: W & T
- Main IPC: H02J1/14
- IPC: H02J1/14 ; H02M1/08 ; H02M3/158 ; H02M1/00 ; H02M3/00 ; H01L25/18

Abstract:
A semiconductor device has a power rail that provides a rail voltage. The power rail is electrically coupled to a plurality of voltage regulators, and each voltage regulator includes an output interface electrically coupled to the power rail, and a first drive path and a second drive path both coupled to the output interface, and an intra-regulator balancing circuit. The first and second drive paths are coupled in parallel with each other, and operate during a first phase and a second phase, at an operating frequency, to provide a first path current and a second path current to the power rail, respectively. The intra-regulator balancing circuit senses the first and second path currents and controls a first duty cycle of the first phase and/or a second duty cycle of the second phase based on a difference of the first and second path currents.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220247315A1 Current Balancing for Voltage Regulator Units in Field Programmable Arrays Public/Granted day:2022-08-04
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