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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2016
Power Integrations, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vikram Balakrishnan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Qing McIntosh, San Jose, CA (US);
Roland Sylvere Saint-Pierre, San Jose, CA (US);
Power Integrations, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A controller for use in a power converter includes an initialization circuit coupled to a sense terminal coupled to an external resistor to receive a sense voltage from external resistor during a startup mode of the power converter. The sense terminal is coupled to sense an output current of the power converter after the startup mode of the power converter is complete. A decoder circuit is coupled to receive the sense voltage from the initialization circuit during the startup mode of the power converter. The decoder circuit is coupled to sense a voltage across an external resistor during the startup mode of the power converter to determine a value of the external resistor to set an operating parameter of the power converter in response to the value of the external resistor.