Texas Instruments Corporation

Siew Kuok Hoon

Jun Chen

Jairo Daniel Olivares

Franco Maloberti

Kevin Scoones

Daniel A Mavencamp

Kai Zhu

Karthik Nandimandalam Venkata

Orlando Lazaro

Bertan Bakkaloglu

David W Evans

Norman L Culp

Yipeng Su

Qiong M Li

Kae Ann Wong

Wei-Chung Wu

Austin Womac

Jing Ye

Donald Thomas Pullen

Norelis Medina

Joseph A Nuniz

Bhaskar Aravind

A device includes a battery current sense circuit configured to generate a battery current feedback voltage based on a current provided to a battery, a current regulation feedback loop configured to regulate the current provided to the battery based on the battery current feedback voltage and a configurable battery current reference voltage, and a precharge regulation feedback loop configured to regulate the current provided to the battery based on the battery current feedback voltage and a configurable precharge reference voltage. The device also includes a processor configured to set the battery current reference voltage to a first value and set the precharge current reference voltage to a second value. The first value is less than the second value during a transition state.

Current protection for battery charger

Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a method. In at least some examples, the method includes controlling gate terminals of one or more transistors of a charger to operate the charger in a buck-boost mode of operation to generate a system voltage based on a bus voltage by performing power conversion through switching, determining that the bus voltage is greater in value than a voltage of a battery coupled to the charger, and controlling the gate terminals of the one or more transistors of the charger to operate the charger in a pass-through mode of operation to generate the system voltage based on the bus voltage without performing power conversion.

Switching mode charger with pass through mode

A device includes a power converter having an input coupled to a first node and an output coupled to an output terminal adapted to couple to a battery. A blocking transistor is coupled between a second node and the first node. A regulator has inputs coupled to the first node and the second node and an output coupled to a control node of the blocking transistor. The regulator is configured to control the blocking transistor to regulate a voltage drop across the blocking transistor based on a voltage between the first node and the second node. The regulator is also configured to turn off the blocking transistor in response to a voltage at the first node exceeding a voltage at the second node by at least a threshold to block boost-back current flowing from the output terminal to the second node.

Boost-back protection for power converter

A driver circuit includes two high-side switches and a single low-side switch, output inductor, and output capacitor. By having multiple high-side switches, the driver can regulate power from multiple charging devices. The high-side switches share a channel with an input capacitor for that channel and the channels are connected to the low-side switch at a common node. When the capacitor for one of the channels becomes charged quickly, the capacitor of the other channel will balance itself with the charged capacitor. To avoid damaging the high-side switches, a low-impedance bridge and driver circuit is connected between the channels.

Capacitor balanced driver circuit for dual input charger

Low noise, low dropout regulators are described. An example low noise, low dropout regulator includes a chopping error amplifier to receive an input signal and a feedback signal and to output a modified signal having an undesired portion of the input signal shifted to a higher frequency and a regulator to receive the modified signal and to generate an output signal by filtering the undesired portion of the input signal from the modified signal.

Low noise, low dropout regulators

One embodiment of the invention includes a switching power supply system. The system includes a switch network comprising at least one switch configured to provide an output voltage based on switching activity thereof. The system also includes a switching controller configured to control the switch network to maintain the output voltage provided at an output based on a feedback signal associated with the output voltage. A converter pulse detector is configured to detect an output voltage overshoot condition based on the switching activity of the switch network corresponding to a transition in an output load to which the output voltage is provided.

Load-induced voltage overshoot detection and correction in switching power supplies

A switching regulation system and control scheme efficiently enables driving multiple loads from a common energy storage element, such as an inductor. The control scheme operates to store energy in the energy storage element over a first portion of a cycle, such as by ramping up current through an inductor, according to energy requirements of the multiple loads. After storing the energy in the storage element during the first portion of the cycle, the stored energy is delivered consecutively to each of the multiple loads over a subsequent portion of the cycle.

DC/DC power converter

A driver circuit includes a first transistor coupled between an input supply node and an output node. The first transistor operates in one of a conductive state to couple the output node with the input supply node and non-conductive state according to cooperative operation of a second transistor and a third transistor. The second transistor is coupled to provide a control input to drive the first transistor to the conductive state thereof in response a first input signal provided at a control input of the second transistor. The third transistor is coupled to provide an output at the output node in response to a second input signal provided at a control input of the third transistor, the first and second input signals being out of phase with each other. Circuitry is coupled between the input supply node and the control input of the first transistor to provide reduced impedance at the control input of the first transistor according to operation of the second transistor.

Driver circuit

A low drop-out voltage regulator uses a voltage subtractor circuitto form a power supply rejection boost circuit. The voltage subtractoris inserted between the pass elementand the amplifierof the low drop-out regulator. The voltage regulator circuit includes a pass elementcoupled between an input node and an output node; a voltage feedback circuitandcoupled to the output node Vo; an amplifierhaving an input coupled to the voltage feedback circuit; and a voltage subtractorhaving a control node coupled to an output of the amplifier, an output coupled to a control node of the pass element, and an input coupled to the input node. The boost circuit improves supply noise rejection performance significantly without adding much complexity to the regulator system. The boost circuit is simple and consumes negligible silicon area and power.

Low drop-out voltage regulator with power supply rejection boost circuit

A threshold voltage extraction circuit. The circuit includes a first current mirror having a first transistor and a second transistor. A holding circuit has an output adapted to control a current though the first current mirror by operating to maintain substantially equal the voltages at a first input thereof and at a second input thereof. A third, MOS transistor having a source and a gate, and a resistor circuit, together adapted to generate a voltage which is a multiple of a source-gate threshold voltage of the third transistor, are coupled to the second transistor and to the first input of the holding circuit. A fourth, MOS transistor coupled to the first transistor and to the second input of the subtracting circuit through a second resistor circuit is adapted to generate a threshold voltage across the second resistor circuit, by the operation of the holding circuit. A second current mirror coupled to the first current mirror is adapted to cause a current to flow through a third resistor circuit that corresponds to the current through the first current mirror to thereby provide an output voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage.

Threshold voltage extraction circuit

A bandgap reference circuit. The circuit includes a first current mirror having a first mirror transistor and a second mirror transistor. A holding circuit has an output adapted to control a current though the first current mirror by operating to maintain substantially equal the voltages at a first input thereof and at a second input thereof. A first bipolar transistor having an emitter, a base, and a collector, wherein the area of the emitter thereof has a predetermined size, is arranged to conduct a collector current from the first mirror transistor. A second bipolar transistor having an emitter, a base, and a collector, wherein the area of the emitter thereof has a size that is proportional to the size of the emitter area of the first bipolar transistor, is arranged to conduct a collector current from the second mirror transistor, the base thereof being connected to the collector thereof. A first resistor is provided, in series with the collector of the second bipolar transistor and the second mirror transistor. The base of the first bipolar transistor is coupled to a common connection node of the first resistor and the second mirror transistor to substantially reduce the effects of offset error in the holding circuit. The holding circuit may be an operational amplifier.

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