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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sergio Carlo Rodriguez, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Cary D Renzema, North Plains, OR (US);
Amit K. Jain, Sherwood, OR (US);
Po-Cheng Chen, Tigard, OR (US);
Fabrice Paillet, Portland, OR (US);
Anand Ramasundar, Portland, OR (US);
James Keith Hodgson, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments herein relate to a feedback loop in a digital voltage regulator for controlling an output voltage. To avoid instability at light current loads, a gain of the loop is reduced as a power gate code indicates a reduced number of branches in set of current sources are enabled. In an example implementation, the code is classified into one range of a number of ranges, and the gain is set based on the one range. The gain can decrease each time the code enters a lower range, as indicated by the code crossing a threshold or predetermined value. For example, the gain can decrease by half each time the code enters a lower range.