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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Gazelle Semiconductor, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Nicolas Stephane Monier, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Christian Gerard Tournatory, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Gazelle Semiconductor, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/14 (2006.01); H02M 3/156 (2006.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01); H02M 7/538 (2007.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/14 (2013.01); H02M 3/156 (2013.01); H02M 3/1588 (2013.01); H02M 7/538 (2013.01); H02M 2001/008 (2013.01); Y02B 70/1466 (2013.01); Y10T 307/367 (2015.04);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes circuits and methods for controlling the operation of a switching regulator. Closing and opening high side and low side switches may be controlled so that an inductor current may be used to charge and/or discharge an intermediate switching node when both switches are open. In one embodiment, delays between a low-to-high transition and a high-to-low transition of an AC stage may be cycled over multiple periods of a DC stage.