Intel Corporation

Sung Tae Moon

Tanay Karnik

Gerhard Schrom

Peter Hazucha

Fabrice Paillet

Donald S Gardner

Trang T Nguyen

Vivek K De

Edward Allyn Burton

Kaladhar Radhakrishnan

Dinesh Somasekhar

Multiple-inductor embodiments for use in substrates are provided herein.

Integrated inductors

Disclosed herein are pulse width modulator (PWM) solutions with comparators not relying on a variable reference to adjust duty cycle. In accordance with some embodiments, a pulse width modulator having a comparator with an applied adjustable waveform to generate a bit stream with a controllably adjustable duty cycle is provided.

Pulse width modulator with an adjustable waveform generator for controlling duty cycle of a pulse width modulated signal

An inductor and multiple inductors embedded in a substrate (e.g., IC package substrate, board substrate, and/or other substrate) is provided herein.

Integrated inductor

A signal generating circuit is provided. The signal generating circuit may include a plurality of delay circuits coupled to provide a plurality of control signals, a weighted-sum circuit to receive the plurality of control signals and to provide an output analog signal, and a comparator circuit to compare the output analog signal with a voltage and to provide a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal based on the comparison.

Signal generating circuit

Stepwise drivers for DC/DC converters are described herein. In one embodiment, a stepwise driver is provided to charge or discharge a gate capacitance of a power switch of a DC/DC converter. In a particular embodiment, a stepwise driver example includes multiple switching elements to sequentially switch to charge a gate capacitance of a power switch of a DC/DC converter from a first voltage to a second voltage in multiple steps. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

Stepwise drivers for DC/DC converters

A temperature-independent voltage reference containing two independent bias circuits powered by the reference voltage, each bias circuit containing components with an exponential dependence of current on voltage and one containing a resistive impedance, and further including voltage dividers and an active component.

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