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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
James Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Rohan Samsi, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/32 (2007.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01); H02M 3/157 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/32 (2013.01); H02M 3/1584 (2013.01); H02M 3/157 (2013.01);
Abstract
A switching circuit with a fault instruction circuit used in a voltage converter or a multi-phase voltage converter. The switching circuit has a pin, the pin is configured to receive a control signal during a normal operation, and the pin is also configured to output a fault instruction signal when one or more faults occur in the switching circuit. The instruction signal represents each of the one or more faults with a particular value.