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Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2014
Applicants:

Benton H Calhoun, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Aatmesh Shrivastava, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Inventors:

Benton H Calhoun, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Aatmesh Shrivastava, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Assignee:

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/158 (2006.01); H02J 1/00 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/158 (2013.01); H02M 2001/009 (2013.01); Y10T 307/406 (2015.04);
Abstract

In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) direct current (DC-DC) converter circuit, with the SIMO DC-DC converter circuit having a set of output nodes. The apparatus also includes a panoptic dynamic voltage scaling (PDVS) circuit operatively coupled to the SIMO DC-DC converter circuit, where the PDVS circuit has a set of operational blocks with each operational block from the set of operational blocks drawing power from one supply voltage rail from a set of supply voltage rails. Additionally, each output node from the set of output nodes is uniquely associated with a supply voltage rail from the set of supply voltage rails.


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