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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2012
Applicant:
William Todd Harrison, Apex, NC (US);
Inventor:
William Todd Harrison, Apex, NC (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/00 (2006.01); H02M 3/156 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/156 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0032 (2013.01); Y02B 70/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a DC/DC converter in a continuous-conduction mode (CCM) or in a discontinuous-conduction mode (DCM) to produce an output voltage, the DC/DC converter setting a pulse width modulation in CCM based on a COMP signal that varies as a function of the output voltage, the method including capturing the COMP signal utilizing a digital-to-analog converter at a transition between CCM and DCM, and varying a frequency of operation of the DC/DC converter in DCM based on the captured COMP signal.