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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2017
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Jianzhang Xie, Shanghai, CN;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A DC-to-DC converter includes an input voltage node, an inductor, and a switch coupled to the inductor and the input voltage node. More specifically, the switch has an on state and off state, wherein during the on state, current flowing through the inductor increases and the off state results in a decrease of the current flowing through the inductor via a driver coupled to the switch. The driver comprises a plurality of transistors and an adaptive voltage node, wherein a voltage level at the adaptive voltage node is to vary in accordance with the current flowing through the inductor so as to decrease a variation of the amount of time to turn off the switch.