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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Je-Hyung Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Ha-Neul Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hyoung-Seok Oh, Seoul, KR;
Kyoung-Jin Lee, Seoul, KR;
Sang-Ik Cho, Seongdong-gu, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A voltage converter includes a driving device unit, a current sensing unit and a switching control circuit. The driving device unit charges an input power supply voltage in an inductor, connected between a switching node and an output node, in response to a first driving control signal, and discharges the inductor in response to a second driving control signal. The current sensing unit generates first and second sensing signals based on a first sensed current, a second sensed current, a voltage at the switching node and a ground voltage. The switching control circuit generates the first and second driving control signals by performing a pulse-frequency modulation (PFM) and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) based on a feedback voltage, a reference voltage and the first and second sensing signals. The switching control circuit adaptively adjusts off-time when the switching control circuit performs the PFM.