Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Nicholaus Smith

Arun Khamesra

Prasanna Venkateswaran Vijayakumar

Kailas Narayana Iyer

Palaniappan Subbiah

Jegannathan Ramanujam

A Universal Serial Bus (USB)-Power Delivery (PD) integrated circuit (IC) controller is described. The controller includes: a first USB port configured for coupling the USB-PD IC controller to a USB power adaptor; a second port configured for coupling the USB-PD IC controller to a wireless charging station; and logic configured to control a level of a voltage output by the USB power adaptor and to control an output power level of the wireless charging station, wherein an input voltage of the wireless charging station corresponds to the voltage output by the USB power adaptor or is derived from the voltage output by the USB power adaptor. The IC controls both USB-PD and wireless power simultaneously as a system to transmit power and may limit the output power to prevent overload conditions. A corresponding wireless charging system and method of operating the wireless charging system are also described.

USB power delivery integrated circuit controller with wireless charging station control capability

A peak detector circuit includes: a single operational amplifier having a non-inverting input, an inverting input, and an output; an output capacitor; a first diode having an anode electrically coupled to the output of the single operational amplifier and a cathode electrically coupled to the output capacitor; an RC feedback network electrically coupled between the output capacitor and the inverting input of the single operational amplifier; and a second diode having an anode electrically coupled to the inverting input of the single operational amplifier and a cathode electrically coupled to the anode of the first diode. An electronics system that includes the peak detector circuit is also described.

Peak detector circuit and an electronics system that includes the peak detector circuit

A gate driver circuit for a synchronous rectifier (SR) of a wireless power receiver (WPR) system includes: a first RC filter that outputs a delayed turn-on signal for a first high-side SR switch based on a signal input to the filter that indicates a zero-crossing condition for a coil current of the WPR system in a first direction; a second RC filter that outputs a delayed turn-on signal for a second high-side SR switch based on a signal input to the filter that indicates a zero-crossing condition for the coil current in the opposite direction; a first digital delay-and-hold circuit electrically connected to the output of the first RC filter and that stabilizes the delayed turn-on signal output by the first filter; and a second digital delay-and-hold circuit electrically connected to the output of the second RC filter and that stabilizes the delayed turn-on signal output by the second filter.

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