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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2008
Wenkai Wu, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Ken Boyden, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Rami Hamze, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Wenkai Wu, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Ken Boyden, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Rami Hamze, Los Gatos, CA (US);
International Rectifier Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A ripple regulator for providing a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for regulating an output voltage of a power converter switching stage. The regulator including a ripple circuit for providing a ripple voltage; a comparison circuit for comparing the ripple voltage to an output of an error amplifier; and a PWM circuit producing the PWM signal and receiving an output of the comparison circuit and a clock signal input, the clock signal input determining a first edge of the PWM signal and the output of said comparison circuit determining a second edge of the PWM signal.