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Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

May. 20, 2013
Applicant:

Dell Products, Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

John J. Breen, Harker Heights, TX (US);

Abey K. Mathew, Georgetown, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2007.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2013.01); H02M 3/1584 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0064 (2013.01);
Abstract

In response to a condition not being met, asserting a control input of a driver to close a low side switch in a phase leg of a multiphase voltage regulator using coupled inductors, de-asserting the control input in response to a signal to close a high side switch of the phase leg, and asserting the control input in response to a signal to open the high side switch; and in response to the condition not being met, de-asserting the control input, asserting the control input in response to a signal to close a high side switch of another phase leg, and de-asserting the control input in response to a signal to open the high side switch of the other phase leg and to the current in the phase leg being less than a threshold.


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