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The invention relates to a power supply module which comprises an inductance circuit, a switch circuit, a check driving circuit and a controller, wherein the inductance circuit is provided with an inductor and a voltage feedback line, and the voltage feedback line feeds back the end voltage of the inductor. The switch circuit is electrically connected with the inductance circuit to drive the inductance circuit. The check driving circuit is electrically connected with the switch circuit and the voltage feedback line, and the check driving circuit controls the switch circuit and generates a current feedback signal according to the end voltage of the inductor. The controller is electrically connected with the check driving circuit, and controls the check driving circuit according to the current feedback signal.

A packaging technology to improve performance of an AI processing system resulting in an ultra-high bandwidth system. An IC package is provided which comprises: a substrate; a first die on the substrate, and a second die stacked over the first die. The first die can be a first logic die (e.g., a compute chip, CPU, GPU, etc.) while the second die can be a compute chiplet comprising ferroelectric or paraelectric logic. Both dies can include ferroelectric or paraelectric logic. The ferroelectric / paraelectric logic may include AND gates, OR gates, complex gates, majority, minority, and / or threshold gates, sequential logic, etc. The IC package can be in a 3D or 2.5D configuration that implements logic-on-logic stacking configuration. The 3D or 2.5D packaging configurations have chips or chiplets designed to have time distributed or spatially distributed processing. The logic of chips or chiplets is segregated so that one chip in a 3D or 2.5D stacking arrangement is hot at a time.

Described are concepts, systems, system architectures, circuits, methods, and techniques directed toward power management and control. In particular, described are concepts, systems, system architectures, circuits, methods, and techniques for implementing power converters that may not have a right-hand pole zero in their linearized, averaged control-to-output transfer function, but that may still have buck and boost functionality.

In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a multi-level power converter circuit includes a flying capacitor, a balancing capacitor to control a voltage across the flying capacitor, a plurality of converter switches, a control switch coupled between the flying capacitor and the balancing capacitor, and control circuitry to open and close the control switch based on states of at least two converter switches of the plurality of converter switches. In some embodiments, the multi-level power converter is a three-level buck converter, and the balancing capacitor maintains a voltage across the flying capacitor to be within a threshold range of half the input voltage of the buck converter. In some embodiments, a method for operating the multi-level power converter includes using control circuitry to operate the plurality of converter switches and the control switch to selectively couple the balancing capacitor to either side of the flying capacitor.

In a power conversion device, a control circuit sets an output voltage of a boost converter to a first output voltage level or a second output voltage level in accordance with a voltage corresponding to the input voltage, causes an electric current resonant converter to operate in a full-bridge mode as an operating mode when the first output voltage level has been set, and causes the electric current resonant converter to operate in a half-bridge mode as an operating mode when the second output voltage level has been set. The first output voltage level or the second output voltage level is set at a predetermined timing after the input voltage is input and a set operating mode is maintained until a process of setting the first output voltage level or the second output voltage level is reset.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a voltage conversion circuit and a switching power supply. A control module magnetizes or demagnetizes an inductor by controlling alternate conduction of a main switching tube and a follow current switching tube in a voltage conversion module, and charges and discharges a first capacitor. A virtual inductive current ripple signal is constructed through a virtual ripple generation module, and the virtual inductive current ripple signal replaces ESR information on a first capacitor to be superposed on a feedback voltage, so that after the feedback voltage is superposed with the virtual inductive current ripple signal, the phase difference between the feedback voltage and an inductive current is reduced, and the feedback voltage is reduced. The control module outputs a first control signal according to a virtual inductive current ripple signal and a feedback voltage to control the conduction time of the main switching tube and the follow current switching tube, so that the problem of harmonic oscillation caused by a time-lag effect between an inductive current and the output voltage on the first capacitor is solved, and the generation of harmonic waves is suppressed; the stability of the output voltage of the voltage conversion circuit is improved.

In certain aspects, a voltage regulator includes a pass transistor coupled between an input of the voltage regulator and an output of the voltage regulator, and an amplifier having a first input coupled to a reference voltage, a second input coupled to the output of the voltage regulator via a feedback path, and an output. The voltage regulator also includes a voltage booster coupled between the output of the amplifier and a gate of the pass transistor. In certain aspects, the voltage booster includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor for double charge pumping. In certain aspects, a control circuit of the voltage booster is coupled to a voltage source that is independent of an output voltage of the amplifier.

Embodiments herein relate to techniques to integrate a capacitive voltage regulator in an integrated circuit (IC) package. The voltage regulator may provide a power supply to one or more load domains in the IC package. The transistors of the voltage regulator may be included on the same die as one or more of the load domains, another die, and / or an interposer of the IC package. The capacitors may be included in the same die as the transistors, in the interposer, in a package layer (e.g., package core), and / or in the same die as one or more of the load domains. Accordingly, the voltage regulator can be integrated close to the relevant load domains, delivering power with short current paths and thereby providing reduced input impedance, output impedance, and associated losses compared with prior techniques. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

The invention provides a radio frequency energy collection assembly and system. The radio frequency energy collection assembly comprises at least two radio frequency rectification modules, an energy storage module and a DC-DC conversion module. The at least two radio frequency rectification modules are connected in parallel with each other, are connected with the energy storage module, and are used for outputting energy to the energy storage module; the energy storage module is connected with the DC-DC conversion module and is used for providing energy for the DC-DC conversion module; wherein each radio frequency rectification module comprises a rectifier and a controller, the rectifier comprises a transistor set, and the controller is used for disconnecting the transistor set when electric leakage of the rectifier is detected so as to stop electric leakage of the rectifier. According to the invention, the problem that different channels influence each other when the power is unbalanced can be solved.

A signal amplifier includes a driver and a network of switches forming a power converter coupled to a H-bridge circuit. The power converter has a flying capacitor and an inductor. The H-bridge circuit receives a converted voltage from the power converter and applies an output modulated voltage to a load, for instance a loudspeaker. The driver drives the network of switches in a neutral state, a first state and a second state. In the neutral state no voltage is applied to the load. In the first state, an input voltage supply and the inductor are serially coupled, and the flying capacitor is coupled in parallel with the serially coupled input voltage supply and inductor. In the second state, the flying capacitor is coupled in series with at least one of the input voltage supply and the inductor. The signal amplifier may be a multi-level class D or class H amplifier.

A multi-level conversion circuit and a cycle-by-cycle protection method therefor are provided. The cycle-by-cycle protection method includes steps of: (a) determining main switches and synchronous rectification switches; (b) controlling the main switches to operate in a normal mode; (c) detecting a current flowing through the inductor, and determining whether the current exceeds a threshold; (d) when the current exceeds the threshold, defining the main switch in an on state as a target main switch, switching the target main switch to a current limiting mode for turning off the target main switch; and (e) after the target main switch is switched to the current limiting mode, if the current is lower than the threshold, at a moment when a falling edge of control signals in a reference mode for the main switches first appears, switching the target main switch to a state in the reference mode corresponding to the moment.

This application relates to methods and apparatus for switched mode drivers. A BTL driver has a switch network operable in different switch states, wherein, in each switch state, each of first and second output nodes is connected to a respective one of a first switching voltage, a second switching voltage or an intermediate switching voltage between the first and second switching voltages which is provided by a driver capacitance. A controller is configured to control the switch network to operate in a sequence of switch states to generate a differential drive signal based on an input signal. The controller is configured such that operation of driver switch network in said sequence of switch states to generate said differential drive signal provides voltage regulation of the intermediate voltage provided by said driver capacitance.

A DC conversion circuit and a DC conversion device relate to a power converter. The direct current conversion circuit comprises a shared flying capacitor module, a step-down conversion module and a circuit switching module; the shared flying capacitor module comprises a first power switch group and a shared flying capacitor, and the first power switch group responds to the first control signal and controls the shared flying capacitor to be connected with the input voltage or controls the current of the shared flying capacitor to flow back to the ground; the step-down conversion module comprises at least two step-down conversion circuits which work in parallel; each step-down conversion circuit comprises a second power switch group, a flying capacitor and a power inductor; the second power switch group responds to the second control signal to be switched on and off so as to charge or discharge the flying capacitor and magnetize or demagnetize the power inductor; and the circuit switching module responds to the first control signal, connects the shared flying capacitor module with a step-down conversion circuit set in the step-down conversion module, and is used for charging or discharging the shared flying capacitor.

An integrated circuit includes a first transistor coupled between a power input and a power output, the first transistor being an N-type transistor and having a first transistor control input; a first amplifier stage having a reference input, a feedback input, and a first amplifier output, the feedback input coupled to the power output; a second amplifier stage having an amplifier input and a second amplifier output, the amplifier input coupled to the first amplifier output, and the second amplifier output coupled to the first transistor control input; and a first biasing circuit coupled to the first transistor control input, the first biasing circuit having an electrical control input coupled to the power output.

A reconfigurable flying capacitor multilevel input stage accepts a wide range of input voltages. The input stage divides and inverts a DC input voltage. Generally, output voltage regulation is achieved by adjusting the power switches' duty ratio in the input stage for non-resonant converters and by adjusting the switching frequency for resonant converters.

This disclosure describes a non-dissipative snubber circuit configured to boost a voltage applied to a load after the load's impedance rises rapidly. The voltage boost can thereby cause more rapid current ramping after a decrease in power delivery to the load which results from the load impedance rise. In particular, the snubber can comprise a combination of a capacitive element, two inductive elements, and three switches, where a duty cycle of two of the three switches controls the voltage boost. The snubber can be arranged between a DC power supply and a switching circuit configured to generate a pulsed waveform for provision to the load.

The present invention discloses a boost converter power stage circuit, comprising: an organic light-emitting diode power management integrated circuit unit, a switched capacitor converter, and a boost converter, wherein, a flying capacitor is used to boost the voltage of the inductor to twice the voltage, and then the positive voltage of the output voltage source is boosted, and then use the switched capacitor converter to output the voltage in order to obtain the conversion of the negative voltage.

The invention discloses a porcelain insulator zero value detection method based on voltage distribution and a related device. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring voltage effective value data of each insulator to be detected; drawing a curve according to the acquired voltage data of each insulator to be detected by taking the serial number of the insulator as a horizontal coordinate and taking the effective value of the voltage as a vertical coordinate; and analyzing whether a zero-value insulator exists in the to-be-detected insulator string according to the waveform trend of the curve. The step-down circuit with the core device being the capacitor is arranged in front of the input end of the voltage detection device, and the capacitor is connected to the porcelain insulator to be detected in parallel, so that the input voltage is effectively reduced, and the voltage detection device is protected from being damaged by overhigh voltage; the effective value of the measured voltage is obtained, the actual effect of the measured voltage can be reflected more accurately, the calculation process is simplified, and the efficiency is improved.

The present disclosure discloses a medium-voltage input DC power supply system, comprising a phase-shifting transformer including a plurality of secondary windings; at least one power conversion unit, each including at least one power conversion module, and each power conversion module including: a rectifier unit having an input terminal connected to one of the plurality of secondary windings; at least one DC conversion unit connected to an output terminal of the rectifier unit, each DC conversion unit comprising: a first power conversion circuit, which is a single-stage DC conversion circuit; and a second power conversion circuit connected in parallel to an input terminal of the first power conversion circuit to suppress current oscillation at the input terminal of the first power conversion circuit; wherein each of the secondary windings is connected to one corresponding power conversion unit.

The present invention provides a topology, method and system for bi-directional power conversion of excitation power supply for power battery testing, wherein the topology comprises a three-phase PWM (pulse width modulation) converter, a high-frequency isolation three-level LLC (logical link control) resonant converter and a DC-DC (direct current) converter forming a topology structure for a three-stage power conversion; an input end of the three-phase PWM converter is connected to a power grid side; the high-frequency isolation three-level LLC resonant converter is connected between the three-phase PWM converter and the DC-DC converter in series and is configured for realizing bi-directional DC voltage conversion and isolation, and to raise a busbar voltage between the high-frequency isolation three-level LLC resonant converter and the DC-DC converter; and, the DC-DC converter is configured to generate charging and discharging excitation currents for a power battery testing.

A multi-level direct current converter, a voltage control method for a flying capacitor, and a control apparatus are provided. The multi-level direct current converter includes a controller, a flying capacitor, two switching transistor groups, and an inductor. The method for controlling a flying capacitor includes: in response to that an absolute value of a difference between a sampling voltage and a reference voltage of the flying capacitor is greater than a first threshold, adjusting a duty cycle difference between first switching transistors in two switching transistor groups or a phase difference between carriers of first switching transistors in two switching transistor groups based on a magnitude of an inductor current. According to this application, a voltage of the flying capacitor can be controlled, to improve operation stability of the multi-level direct current converter.

A buck-boost converter for converting an input voltage at an input node into an output voltage at an output node, the converter comprising: first and second inductor nodes for connection of an inductor therebetween; a first converter stage coupled between the input node and the first inductor node; and a second converter stage coupled between the second inductor node and the output node, wherein one or more of the first converter stage and the second converter stage comprises a switching network, comprising: a first switch for selectively connecting a first flying capacitor node to a stage input node; a second switch for selectively connecting the first flying capacitor node to a stage output node; a third switch for selectively connecting a second flying capacitor node to the stage output node; and a fourth switch for selectively connecting the second flying capacitor node to a reference voltage, the first and second flying capacitor nodes for connection of a flying capacitor therebetween.

A disclosed charge pump includes first and second stages and, optionally, additional stage(s). The first stage receives a voltage input (Vin) at a first voltage (V1), CLK1 (GND, V1), and CLK1B (V1, GND), and outputs a first stage voltage output (Vout1) at a second voltage (V2) double V1. A second stage receives Vout1, CLK2 (V1, V2), and CLK2B (V2, V1, and outputs a second stage voltage output (Vout2) at a third voltage (V3) essentially triple V1, and so on. A clock driver supplies CLK1-CLK1B to the first stage and to a clock generator. The clock generator includes: a voltage level shifter, which receives CLK1 and CLK1B and outputs multiple level-shifted voltage output pulses; and a driving circuit, which receives specific ones of the output voltage pulses and outputs CLK2 and CLK2B to the second stage and, if needed, additional voltage level-shifted clock signal-inverted clock signal pairs to any additional stages.

The present disclosure provides a multi-stage charge pump, a current limiting circuit, a driver circuit, a charge pump, a chip, and an electronic device. A control circuit controls a first charge pump circuit to boost an input voltage of a multi-stage charge pump, and controls, based on a second-phase clock signal, a second charge pump circuit to be charged using an output voltage of the first charge pump circuit, such that the second charge pump circuit boosts an output voltage of the first charge pump circuit, and hence a high-side switch driver circuit satisfies a drive requirement of a high-side switch. This ensures normal operation of the charge pump is ensured while reducing the cost and circuit area. In this way, the reliability and safety of the charge pump are improved.

The embodiment of the invention provides a novel integrated charge pump driving circuit and a power integrated circuit, and relates to the technical field of driving circuits, the circuit comprises a front signal processing circuit and a main charge pump and driving circuit; the front signal processing circuit receives a driving logic signal input by the system, preprocesses the driving logic signal and outputs a low-voltage control signal, a first high-voltage control signal and a second high-voltage control signal; and the main charge pump and drive circuit is connected with the output end of the front signal processing circuit, receives the low-voltage control signal, the first high-voltage control signal and the second high-voltage control signal, and processes and outputs a gate drive signal. The circuit provided by the invention can continuously output high-quality gate driving signals, hundred percent duty ratio driving is realized, only dynamic power consumption of the charge pump exists in the whole driving scheme, and the efficiency is higher.

The invention relates to the technical field of energy, in particular to a power management circuit and a power supply system, which are used for reducing circuit loss and improving output performance and output efficiency of an energy device at low output voltage. The power management circuit comprises a rectifying circuit, a primary step-down circuit and at least one secondary step-down circuit which are connected in sequence, the input end of the rectifying circuit is connected with the energy device, the rectifying circuit is used for converting alternating current output by the energy device into direct current with a first voltage value, and the first voltage value is determined in advance according to a charge-voltage output characteristic curve of the energy device; the primary step-down circuit is used for reducing the direct current of the first voltage value into a second voltage value, and the second voltage value is determined according to the output power of the energy device under each voltage value; and the at least one secondary step-down circuit is used for reducing the direct current of the second voltage value to a target output voltage.

The invention belongs to the technical field of power distribution, and discloses a direct current transformer soft switch and a control method.The direct current transformer soft switch comprises a medium-voltage direct current bus and low-voltage direct current buses, the medium-voltage direct current bus is electrically connected with a modular multi-level multi-port direct current converter, and the modular multi-level multi-port direct current converter is electrically connected with a plurality of low-voltage direct current converters; the plurality of low-voltage direct-current converters are electrically connected with a low-voltage direct-current bus and are used for realizing bidirectional power transmission from medium-voltage direct current to low-voltage direct current; according to the method, the medium-voltage side inductance value is reduced, the medium-voltage side current ripple is enabled to pass zero, the M3DC operates in an approximate critical conduction mode, a constant valley current control strategy is adopted, the minimum value of the medium-voltage side inductance current is controlled to be constant under different working conditions, and then zero-voltage switching-on of a switching device in a wide operation range and zero-current switching-off of an anti-parallel diode are achieved.

The invention provides a direct-current voltage conversion circuit and a conversion method, which can be applied to the technical field of voltage conversion. The circuit comprises a series-parallel switched capacitor current reduction module and a stacked switched capacitor module, wherein the series-parallel switched capacitor current-reducing module is electrically connected with the input power supply module, the series-parallel switched capacitor current-reducing module comprises a power inductor and N cascaded capacitor current-reducing units, and the series-parallel switched capacitor current-reducing module is used for regulating and controlling the potential difference between the two ends of the power inductor by controlling the charging and discharging states of the N capacitor current-reducing units. The inductance mean value current of the power inductor is reduced to the first current; the stacked switched capacitor module is electrically connected with the series-parallel switched capacitor current reduction module, the stacked switched capacitor module comprises M cascaded capacitor boosting units, and the stacked switched capacitor module is used for alternately controlling the charging and discharging states of the M capacitor boosting units based on the potential difference between the two ends of the power inductor and boosting the input voltage, and outputting the target voltage.

A control circuit for an isolated switching converter having a transformer with a primary winding and a secondary winding, a primary switch, a secondary switch and an energy recycle branch. The energy recycle branch has a clamp capacitor, an auxiliary switch and a first resistor connected in series between a first terminal and a second terminal of the primary winding. The auxiliary switch has a first electrode coupled to the clamp capacitor and a second electrode coupled to the first resistor. The control circuit decreases a voltage difference between a control electrode and the second electrode of the auxiliary switch during a discharging process of the clamp capacitor based on a current sense signal representative of a current flowing through the energy recycle branch.