Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jungwook Heo

Hyoungseok Oh

Sungwoo Lee

Kwang Chan Lee

Daewoong Cho

Jeongkwang Lee

Hocheol Chung

Sangbin Moon

Hojun Yu

Jiheon Kang

Yonghwan Cho

Sanghee Kang

Kyeseok Yoon

Jinwoo So

Hyebong Ko

A charger integrated circuit is configured to charge a battery device including a first battery and a second battery connected in series. The circuit includes a direct charger configured to generate a first charging current and a first current based on an input voltage received from an input terminal, the first current used to generate a first system current, and a buck converter configured to generate a second current and a second system current based on the input voltage, the second current used to generate a second charging current. The circuit includes a switched capacitor configured to generate the first system current based on the first current, and to generate the second charging current based on the second current, and a linear charger configured to provide the first charging current and the second charging current to the battery device.

Charger integrated circuit for charging series battery device and electronic device including same

A buck converter including: a first switching element connecting an input voltage node to a switching node; a second switching element connecting the switching node to a ground node; a low drop out (LDO) voltage regulator connected to the input voltage node; a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller configured to receive a mode signal indicating an operation mode and toggle, in response to the mode signal, a first control signal for turning on the first switching element or a second control signal for turning on the second switching element; a bootstrap charger configured to receive the mode signal and toggle, in response to the mode signal, a third control signal for turning on the second switching element; and a bootstrap capacitor connecting an output node of the LDO voltage regulator to the switching node.

Buck converter including a bootstrap capacitor and an operating method thereof

A charger integrated circuit includes a bidirectional switching converter including first to fourth switching elements connected in series, an inductor connected to a third switching element, and a capacitor connected to a second switching element and the third switching element, and a controller configured to generate, a first PWM signal and a second PWM signal based on sensing signals from the bidirectional switching converter, and a first switching signal controlling first and fourth switching elements based on the first PWM signal in response to an average of an inductor current being positive, a second switching signal controlling second and third switching elements based on the second PWM signal, and generate the first switching signal based on the second PWM signal, and the second switching signal based on the first PWM signal in response to the average value of the inductor current being negative.

Charger integrated circuit including bidirectional switching converter, and electronic device including the charger integrated circuit

A battery device includes a first battery and a second battery connected in series. An electronic device for determining a state of charge of the battery device includes a sense resistor connected in series to the second battery, and a fuel gauge. The fuel gauge is configured to determine the state of charge of the battery device based on a first terminal voltage of the first battery, a first calculation current of the first battery, a second terminal voltage of the second battery, and a measurement current of the second battery measured through the sense resistor. The fuel gauge calculates a second calculation current of the second battery using a battery parameter of an equivalent circuit model, corrects the battery parameter when a difference between the measurement current and the second calculation current is not less than a threshold value, and calculates the first calculation current using the battery parameter or a corrected battery parameter.

Electronic device for determining state of charge of battery device, and method of operating the electronic device

A voltage converter including first to fourth switches between a first voltage node and ground, fifth to eighth switches between the first voltage node and the ground, a first floating capacitor between a first node between the first and second switches and a second node between the third and fourth switches, a second floating capacitor between a third node between the fifth and sixth switches and a fourth node between the seventh and eighth switches, a ninth switch between a second voltage node and a center node, a first inductor between the second node and a third voltage node, a center capacitor between the center node and the ground, a tenth switch between the second voltage node and the third voltage node, a first capacitor between the third voltage node and the ground, and a second capacitor between the second voltage node and the ground may be provided.

Voltage converter

A level shifter including an input block that receives an input voltage swinging between a first ground voltage and a first power supply voltage and that connects one node of a first node and a second node to a first ground node, in response to the input voltage, a shifting block that mutually exchanges the voltage levels of third and fourth nodes in response to a current flowing through the one node, a pulse generator that generates a first pulse and a second pulse in response to the input voltage, a first transistor that directly connects the third node to the first ground node in response to the first pulse, and a second transistor that directly connects the fourth node to the first ground node in response to the second pulse.

Level shifter and operating method of level shifter

A voltage converter includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor connected, an output capacitor, a flying capacitor, a first gate driver configured to output a first power supply voltage as a first high level and a first voltage as a first low level, a second gate driver configured to output a second power supply voltage as a second high level and a second voltage as a second low level, a third gate driver configured to output a third power supply voltage as a third high level and a third voltage as a third low level, a fourth gate driver configured to output a fourth power supply voltage as a fourth high level and a ground voltage as a fourth low level.

Voltage converter and operating method of voltage converter

The voltage converter including an inductor connected between an output node and a switch node, a capacitor connected between the output node and a ground node, first transistor connected between the switch node and the ground node, a second transistor connected between the switch node and an input node, a boost capacitor connected between the switch node and a boost node, a first driver configured to drive a gate voltage of the first transistor based on a ground voltage of the ground node and a power supply voltage of a power node, a second driver configured to drive a gate voltage of the second transistor based on a switch voltage of the switch node and a boost voltage of the boost node and, and a regulator configured to control the boost voltage depending on a status of the voltage converter may be provided.

A charger integrated circuit is provided which includes a DC-DC converter configured to receive an input voltage and generate an output voltage through a switching operation for charging a battery, and a charging controller configured to control the switching operation such that the output voltage is supplied to the battery through charging paths chargeable according to a level of the input voltage.

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Jungwook Heo