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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
May. 08, 2017
Volterra Semiconductor Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Sombuddha Chakraborty, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yali Xiong, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael D. McJimsey, Danville, CA (US);
Anthony J. Stratakos, Kentfield, CA (US);
Giovanni Garcea, San Jose, CA (US);
Ilija Jergovic, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew Burstein, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Andrea Pizzutelli, Redwood City, CA (US);
Volterra Semiconductor LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling a number of phases that are active in a multiphase direct-current-to-direct-current (DC-to-DC) converter includes (a) filtering a current signal representing a magnitude of current processed by the multiphase DC-to-DC converter to generate a filtered signal, (b) comparing the filtered signal to a first threshold value, (c) deactivating one or more phases of the multiphase DC-to-DC converter in response to the filtered signal falling below the first threshold value, (d) comparing the current signal to a second threshold value, the second threshold value being greater than the first threshold value, and (e) activating one or more phases of the multiphase DC-to-DC converter in response to the current signal rising above the second threshold value.