Renesas Electronics America Inc.

Michael Payne

Daniel Chieng

David L Beck

Adam Vaughn

The present embodiments allow multiphase buck controllers to be able to detect Power-on-Reset (POR) automatically and subsequently reboot the system and reconfigure the system as a single or multi-rail system. Some embodiments use an onboard bus that can communicate between controllers. In these and other embodiments, the system is able to recover automatically from a power failure afflicting any or all of the controllers. Embodiments are applicable to flexible plug-and-play modular digital buck regulation applications.

Automatic power-on-reset detection and recovery of a multi-phase digital buck controller

One or more of the present embodiments allows multiple controllers to be automatically configured as a single or multi-rail voltage regulator system using a local bus that can communicate between controllers with a minimal set of pinstraps. This allows the system to be configured with a reduced set of configuration pins and without the need for stored configurations in the controller's own memory or configurations performed by an external host.

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