Silicon Works Co., Ltd.

Tae Kyu Nam

Won Suk Jang

Young Jin Woo

Young Suk Son

Hyung Seog Oh

Hong Kyu Choi

A switching power supply may include: an inductor connected to an input voltage terminal; a first switch configured to form a first electrical path between the inductor and an output voltage terminal; a second switch configured to form a second electrical path between the inductor and a ground voltage terminal; a negative current sensor configured to sense an inductor current flowing through the first electrical path, and generate an over-current protection signal when the inductor current is sensed as a negative current equal to or more than a preset value; and a controller configured to enable a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) when the over-current protection signal is generated, and turn off the first switch and turn on the second switch, in response to the enabled DCM.

Switching power supply

A driver IC for electrical loads, suitable for regulating a driving voltage depending upon a feedback signal and supplying a regulated driving voltage to a power supply line to which load strings are connected in parallel. The driver IC includes driving current sources respectively connected to the load strings through regulated voltage nodes and configured to supply driving current to the load strings in response to a control signal; sensing units configured to sense and output a minimum voltage among voltages of the regulated voltage nodes; a sample-and-hold circuit configured to sample, hold and output the minimum voltage in response to the control signal; and a comparator configured to compare an output voltage of the sample-and-hold circuit and a reference threshold voltage and generate the feedback signal.

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