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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2003
Applicant:
Inventor:
Fred F. Greenfeld, Melbourne Beach, FL (US);
Assignee:
Intersil Americas Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 4/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 4/06 ;
Abstract
A feed forward pulse width modulator compares a ramp signal with a control voltage to control respective states of a pulse width modulation signal. A respective cycle of the ramp signal is generated by charging a capacitor with a charging current that is proportional to input voltage until the voltage across the capacitor reaches a peak threshold that is also proportional to the input voltage. The capacitor is thereupon discharged with a discharging current proportional to the input voltage until the voltage across the capacitor reaches a (non-zero) valley threshold.