Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ha-Neul Kim

Hyoung-seok Oh

Kyoung-Jin Lee

Je-Hyung Yoon

Sang-Ik Cho

A voltage converter includes a converting circuit and a switching control circuit, where the converting circuit includes an inductor connected to a switching node, a first switching device connected between the switching node and a common voltage and a second switching device connected to the switching node, where the first switching device charges the inductor and discharges the inductor in response to a control signal, and the switching control circuit generates the control signal by performing a PWM and a PFM based on a first sensing signal, a second sensing signal and a feedback signal, and adjusts a charging time of the inductor on a time basis, based on at least the input power supply voltage when the switching control circuit performs the PFM.

Voltage converter for power management

A voltage converter includes a driving device unit, a current sensing unit and a switching control circuit. The driving device unit charges an input power supply voltage in an inductor, connected between a switching node and an output node, in response to a first driving control signal, and discharges the inductor in response to a second driving control signal. The current sensing unit generates first and second sensing signals based on a first sensed current, a second sensed current, a voltage at the switching node and a ground voltage. The switching control circuit generates the first and second driving control signals by performing a pulse-frequency modulation (PFM) and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) based on a feedback voltage, a reference voltage and the first and second sensing signals. The switching control circuit adaptively adjusts off-time when the switching control circuit performs the PFM.

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Ha-Neul Kim