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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Lion Semiconductor Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alberto Alessandro Angelo Puggelli, Oakland, CA (US);
Thomas Li, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wonyoung Kim, Berkeley, CA (US);
John Crossley, Oakland, CA (US);
Hanh-Phuc Le, Richmond, CA (US);
Assignee:
Lion Semiconductor Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 5/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02M 3/07 (2006.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 5/00 (2013.01); H02J 7/0052 (2013.01); H02J 7/0065 (2013.01); H02M 3/07 (2013.01); H02M 3/1582 (2013.01); H02J 2007/0062 (2013.01); H02M 2001/007 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure shows a reconfigurable Dickson Star SC regulator that can support multiple conversion ratios by reconfiguring between various modes. The reconfigurable Dickson Star SC regulator is designed to reduce the number of redundant capacitors by reusing capacitors and switches across multiple modes of operation (across multiple conversion ratios). The present disclosure also shows a hybrid (e.g., two-stage) voltage regulator.