Abstract:
A resonant converter has a switching circuit having a first switch and a second switch, a control circuit and a resonant circuit. The control circuit has a slope sensing circuit providing a slope sense signal based on a voltage variation at the common node of the first switch and the second switch, a slope judge circuit providing a slope judge signal, and a turn-ON control circuit providing a first reset signal to adjust a first dead-time period from turning OFF the first switch to turning ON the second switch based on the slope judge signal, the slope signal, and a current flowing through the resonant tank, and providing a second reset signal to adjust a second dead-time period from turning OFF the second switch to turning ON the first switch based on the slope judge signal, the slope signal, and the current flowing through the resonant tank.
Abstract:
A discharge circuit for an X capacitor has a first voltage detection circuit providing a first indicating signal based on a voltage across two input terminals of a switching converter to indicate whether the two input terminals are connected to an AC power source, and a discharge module starting a discharge operation on the X capacitor based on first indicating signal, and the discharge operation discharges the X capacitor during a first time period, and stops discharging the X capacitor and compares a sampled signal with the voltage across the two input terminals during a following second time period.
Abstract:
A driving circuit for driving a synchronous rectifier device. The driving circuit may include a controllable charging circuit and a slope sensing circuit. The slope sensing circuit may sense whether an abrupt rising change in a voltage drop from a sensing terminal to a reference ground terminal of the driving circuit is occurring, and provide a slope sensing signal in response to a rising edge of the abrupt rising change in the voltage drop. The controllable charging circuit may receive the slope sensing signal and provide a charging current to a supply terminal of the driving circuit in response to each rising edge of the abrupt rising change in the voltage drop.
Abstract:
A synchronous rectifier control circuit, used with a synchronous rectification circuit having a primary switch and a synchronous rectifier, having: a drain-source threshold setting circuit, configured to provide a dynamic drain-source voltage threshold based on a drain-source voltage across the synchronous rectifier; a primary switch detecting circuit, configured to provide a primary switch state indicating signal based on a comparison result of the drain-source voltage and the dynamic drain-source voltage threshold; and an on-control circuit, configured to provide a synchronous on signal to turn on the synchronous rectifier when the drain-source voltage decreases to the turn-on threshold, on the premise that the primary switch state indicating signal indicates an on state of the primary switch.
Abstract:
A switching mode power supply preventing false triggering of an over current protection due to a surge pulse. The switching mode power supply has a switch and an inductor. An inductor current flows through the inductor. The switching mode power supply turns off the switch and meanwhile starts timing for a preset period of time when the inductor current is larger than a preset value. The switch is kept off during the preset period of time and is then turned on when the preset period of time expires.
Abstract:
A control circuit used for controlling a resonant converter. The control circuit has a setting capacitor, N up thresholds and N low thresholds. If the resonant converter operates in the inductive mode, a setting voltage signal across the setting capacitor is respectively compared with the largest one of the N up thresholds and the smallest one of the N low thresholds in each operation cycle to generate a high-side control signal and a low-side control signal for controlling a high-side switch and a low-side switch of the resonant converter. If the resonant converter enters into the capacitive mode, the setting voltage signal is respectively compared with each of the N up thresholds and each of the N low thresholds operation cycle by operation cycle to generate the high-side control signal and the low-side control signal.
Abstract:
A switching mode power supply with resonant technology. The switching mode power supply current uses current polarity evaluation to avoid capacitive mode by triggering the capacitive protection if the evaluation indicates that the system will enter capacitive mode.
Abstract:
Control method and circuit for resonant converters with capacitive protection. When a resonant converter enters into a capacitive mode, a high-side switch and a low-side switch of the resonant converter are turned off. After the high-side switch and a low-side switch are turned off for N switching cycles, the high-side switch is turned on once a current sense signal flowing through a resonant inductor of the resonant converter is increased to a zero-crossing threshold during an ascent stage of the current sense signal, and the low-side switch is turned on once the current sense signal is decreased to the zero-crossing threshold during a descent stage of the current sense signal.
Abstract:
A power converter includes a switch control circuit for driving a high side switch of the power converter comprising the high side switch and a low side switch connected in series. The switch control circuit may have a first terminal for receiving an input signal, a second terminal used as a reference ground terminal of the switch control circuit, and a third terminal used as an output terminal to provide a driving signal, the switch control circuit can draw power from the input signal and may be configured to control a logic state of the driving signal based on a logic state of the input signal relative to a reference ground signal at the second terminal or based on a current flowing through the first terminal.
Abstract:
A method for detecting a variation of input voltage. The method is generating an indication signal based on the input voltage, and comparing the input voltage with a first reference signal. The first reference signal is smaller than the indication signal, and if the input voltage is consistently smaller than the first reference signal during a first time duration from the moment when the input voltage is decreased to the first reference signal, the indication signal is decreased after the first time duration.