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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Chuang Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
James Thomas Doyle, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Farsheed Mahmoudi, San Diego, CA (US);
Amirali Shayan Arani, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit including: a control system for a three-level buck converter, the three-level buck converter including multiple input switches, each of the input switches receiving one of a plurality of different pulse width modulated signals, the control system including: a first clock signal and a second clock signal, the second clock signal being a phase-shifted version of the first clock signal; ramp generating circuitry receiving the first and second clock signals and producing first and second ramp signals, respectively, from the first and second clock signals; a first comparing circuit receiving the first ramp signal and producing a first one of the pulse width modulated signals therefrom; and a second comparing circuit receiving the second ramp signal and producing a second one of the pulse width modulated signals therefrom.