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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2022
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sally Safwat Amin, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments herein relate to a voltage converter which includes a soft switching driver for a low-side transistor which is in series with a high-side transistor to provide a desired output voltage Vx. The soft switching driver receives Vx on a feedback path and includes a clipper transistor to clip or reduce a maximum voltage of Vx to Vxsen. A restore circuit can be used to effectively add back a threshold voltage drop of the clipper transistor which would otherwise occur by holding a source of the clipper transistor at Vdrv, a gate voltage of the clipper transistor. A zero-voltage switching circuit receives Vxsen to provide an output voltage which in turn sets a control gate voltage of the low-side transistor. The low-side and high-side transistors may be GaN-based while the soft switching driver is CMOS based.
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