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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2004
Peter Hazucha, Beaverton, OR (US);
Sung T. Moon, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Gerhard Schrom, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Tanay Karnik, Portland, OR (US);
Vivek DE, Beaverton, OR (US);
Peter Hazucha, Beaverton, OR (US);
Sung T. Moon, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Gerhard Schrom, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Tanay Karnik, Portland, OR (US);
Vivek De, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Stepwise drivers for DC/DC converters are described herein. In one embodiment, a stepwise driver is provided to charge or discharge a gate capacitance of a power switch of a DC/DC converter. In a particular embodiment, a stepwise driver example includes multiple switching elements to sequentially switch to charge a gate capacitance of a power switch of a DC/DC converter from a first voltage to a second voltage in multiple steps. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.