Himax Technologies, Inc.

Ncku Research and Development Foundation

Kai-Yu Hu

Chien-Hung Tsai

A digital constant on-time controller adaptable to a direct-current (DC)-to-DC converter includes a current sensing circuit that senses stored energy of the DC-to-DC converter, thereby generating a sense voltage; a semi-amplitude detector that detects half of a peak-to-peak amplitude of the sense voltage, thereby generating a semi-amplitude voltage; a DC voltage detector that detects a DC voltage across an effective series resistor of an energy storage circuit that provides the stored energy of the DC-to-DC converter, thereby generating a DC voltage; an arithmetic device that adds the sense voltage and the semi-amplitude voltage, from which the DC voltage and a predetermined reference signal are subtracted; and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator that generates a switch control signal according to a result of the arithmetic device.

Digital constant on-time controller adaptable to a DC-to-DC converter

A digital constant on-time controller adaptable to a direct-current (DC)-to-DC converter includes a current sensing circuit that senses stored energy of the DC-to-DC converter, thereby generating a sense voltage; an offset cancellation circuit coupled to receive the sense voltage, thereby generating an offset-removed sense voltage according to a valley voltage of the sense voltage; a comparator that compares the offset-removed sense voltage with a reference signal; and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator that generates a switch control signal according to a comparison result of the comparator.

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Kai-Yu Hu