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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2003
Mark D. Eason, Hollister, CA (US);
Harry Rodriguez, Gilroy, CA (US);
Mark R. Muegge, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark D. Eason, Hollister, CA (US);
Harry Rodriguez, Gilroy, CA (US);
Mark R. Muegge, Cupertino, CA (US);
iWatt Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Abstract
A power converter comprises an event detection module detecting various events of the power converter in real time at the switching frequency of a switch in the power converter according to predetermined criteria. A pulse generator generates control signals for controlling the on-times and off-times of the switch based on the various detected events. The events detected by the event detection module include a detection of a 'knee' in the reflected secondary voltage on the auxiliary windings of the transformer in a primary side sensing flyback power converter, and detection of a digital error quantifying the difference between the reference voltage and the reflected secondary voltage on the auxiliary windings of the transformer in time domain.