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System and method for providing control for switch-mode power supply. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for regulating a power converter. The system comprises a signal processing component that is configured to receive a first voltage and a second voltage, to process information associated with the first voltage and the second voltage, to determine a signal based on at least information associated with the first voltage and the second voltage, and to send the signal to a switch for a power converter. The switch is regulated based on at least information associated with the signal. The signal processing component is further configured to determine the signal to be associated a first mode, if the first voltage is higher than a first threshold.

System and method for protecting a power converter. A system includes a threshold generator configured to generate a threshold signal, and a first comparator configured to receive the threshold signal and a first signal and to generate a comparison signal. The first signal is associated with an input current for a power converter. Additionally, the system includes a pulse-width-modulation generator configured to receive the comparison signal and generate a modulation signal in response to the comparison signal, and a switch configured to receive the modulation signal and adjust the input current for the power converter. The threshold signal is associated with a threshold magnitude as a function of time. The threshold magnitude increases with time at a first slope during a first period, and the threshold magnitude increases with time at a second slope during a second period. The first slope and the second slope are different.

System and method for regulating an output voltage of a power conversion system. The system includes a sampling component located on a chip configured to receive an input voltage through a terminal. The sampling component is configured to sample the input voltage and generate a sampled voltage. Additionally, the system includes an error amplifier configured to process information associated with the sampled voltage and a threshold voltage and generate a first output signal, and a first signal generator configured to generate a second output signal and one or more third output signals. Moreover, the system includes a comparator configured to receive the first output signal and the second output signal and generate a comparison signal, and a gate driver directly or indirectly coupled to the comparator and configured to generate a drive signal based on at least information associated with the comparison signal.

System and method for regulating a power conversion system. For example, a system controller includes a signal generator and one or more power-consumption components. The signal generator is configured to receive a feedback signal related to an output signal of the power conversion system, a current sensing signal and an input voltage, and to generate a control signal based on at least information associated with the feedback signal, the current sensing signal and the input voltage. The power-consumption components are configured to receive the control signal. The signal generator is further configured to determine whether the feedback signal is smaller than a feedback threshold for a first predetermined period of time, the current sensing signal is smaller than a current sensing threshold for a second predetermined period of time, and the input voltage is smaller than a first threshold for a third predetermined period of time in magnitude.

An electronics product has a control unit responsive to a power-on remote control signal to enable DC power converters to supply power for normal operation of the product and to a microprocessor for responding to other remote control signals. The microprocessor controls the control unit to return to a standby mode of the product by disabling the DC power converters. The arrangement facilitates eliminating a conventional standby power supply and achieving a very low standby power consumption.

System and method for protecting a power converter. The system includes a first comparator configured to receive a threshold signal and a first signal and to generate a comparison signal. The first signal is a sum of a second signal and a third signal, and the third signal is associated with an input current for a power converter. Additionally, the system includes a pulse-width-modulation generator configured to receive the comparison signal and generate a modulation signal in response to the comparison signal, and a switch configured to receive the modulation signal and control the input current for the power converter. An amplitude for the first signal becomes larger if an amplitude for the input voltage becomes larger. The second signal is generated by receiving an input voltage for the power converter, converting the received input voltage to a fourth signal, and converting the fourth signal to the second signal.

System and method for providing control for switch-mode power supply. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for regulating a power converter. The system comprises a signal processing component that is configured to receive a first voltage and a second voltage, to process information associated with the first voltage and the second voltage, to determine a signal based on at least information associated with the first voltage and the second voltage, and to send the signal to a switch for a power converter. The switch is regulated based on at least information associated with the signal. The signal processing component is further configured to determine the signal to be associated a first mode, if the first voltage is higher than a first threshold.

The invention discloses a switching power supply for an AC / DC-DC self-adaptive instrument within an ultra-wide voltage input range. The switching power supply comprises an input protective circuit, an EMI filter circuit, a power frequency rectification and filter circuit, a high frequency rectification and filter circuit, a boosting conversion circuit, a flyback conversion circuit, a first voltage sampling circuit, a first current sampling circuit, a second voltage sampling circuit, a second current sampling circuit, a first PWM circuit, a second PWM circuit, an auxiliary power supply circuit, a power switching circuit, a voltage detection and comparison control circuit and an optocoupler isolation feedback circuit. A two-stage type cascade circuit is formed by the boosting conversion circuit and the flyback conversion circuit, and the automatic instrument can automatically adapt to power supply of an 85-265V alternating-current power supply and an 18-100V direct-current power supply.

Power is taken out from radio waves through an antenna and a power receiving unit. A signal receiver, a comparator, and an ID signal holder are operated with the taken-out power to compare an ID contained in a received signal with an ID read out from the ID signal holder. When both the ID's are matched with each other, a switch for a main power source is turned on. In trying to remotely operate household electrical appliances by utilizing the Internet that has become increasingly popular, standby power is consumed if the electrical appliances are kept in a standby state at all times. Since power is taken out from radio waves, the invention is able to cut the standby power in an environment where the radio waves are transferred via radio communication that is expected to be more and more prevalent in future.

A programmable SoC (system on a chip) having optimized power domains and power islands. The SoC is an integrated circuit device including a plurality of power domains, each of the power domains having a respective voltage rail to supply power to the power domain. A plurality of power islands are included within the integrated circuit device, wherein each power domain includes at least one power island. A plurality of functional blocks are included within the integrated circuit device, wherein each power island includes at least one functional block. Each functional block is configured to provide a specific device functionality. The integrated circuit device adjusts power consumption in relation to a requested device functionality by individually turning on or turning off power to a selected one or more power domains, and for each turned on power domain, individually power gating one or more power islands.

Integrated circuit standby power consumption may be reduced using a reverse-bias transistor control arrangement that reduces transistor leakage current. Integrated circuit transistors may be turned off using a reverse bias voltage rather than a ground voltage. A charge pump circuit on the integrated circuit may be used to generate the reverse bias voltage. The reverse bias voltage may also be provided from an external source. The integrated circuit may be a programmable logic device in which logic is configured by providing programming data to configuration cells. The configuration cells may be used to apply either a positive power supply voltage to a given transistor to turn that transistor on or to provide the reverse bias voltage to that transistor to turn that transistor off.

Modified silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates having a trap rich layer, and methods for making such modifications. The modified regions eliminate or manage accumulated charge that would otherwise arise because of the interaction of the underlying trap rich layer and active layer devices undergoing transient changes of state, thereby eliminating or mitigating the effects of such accumulated charge on non-RF integrated circuitry fabricated on such substrates. Embodiments retain the beneficial characteristics of SOI substrates with a trap rich layer for RF circuitry requiring high linearity, such as RF switches, while avoiding the problems of a trap rich layer for circuitry that is sensitive to accumulated charge effects caused by the presence of the trap rich layer, such as non-RF analog circuitry and amplifiers (including power amplifiers and low noise amplifiers).

The invention includes SOI constructions containing one or more memory cells which include a transistor and a thyristor. In one aspect, a scalable GLTRAM cell provides DRAM-like density and SRAM-like performance. The memory cell includes an access transistor and a gated-lateral thyristor integrally formed above the access transistor. The cathode region (n+) of the stacked lateral thyristor device (p+ / n / p / n+) is physically and electrically connected to one of the source / drain regions of the FET to act as the storage node for the memory cell. The FET transistor can include an active region which extends into a Si / Ge material. The material comprising Si / Ge can have a relaxed crystalline lattice, and a layer having a strained crystalline lattice can be between the material having the relaxed crystalline lattice and the transistor gate. The device construction can be formed over a versatile substrate base.

A packet relay device determines a port to be placed on standby in a link aggregation, determines whether there is an active port among ports belonging to redundant network interfaces, and, if a network interface has no active port, places the network interface on standby. The packet relay device monitors whether a failure has occurred in an active network interface and, if a failure is detected, activates a standby network interface and places the failed network interface on standby.

The invention discloses an Internet of Things intelligent control method and an Internet of Things intelligent control system based on user perception. The Internet of Things intelligent control method is characterized in that all users in a target area can be identified, and according to preset user priority levels, the user having the highest priority level is defined as the target user, and then the control parameters corresponding to the target user can be acquired, and the working state of the specified Internet of Things device can be controlled according to the control parameters; the Internet of Things intelligent control system comprises a user perception module, a target user selection module, a control parameter acquisition module, and a device control module. Various Internet of Things devices in the room are provided with the capability of perceiving the users, and can be used to provide the services to the users automatically based on the own responsibilities and functions according to the moving conditions of the users, and then the irrelevant relation between the working conditions of various devices in the room and the moving conditions of the users can be changed, and the living quality of the people can be improved.

The invention provides a deep-sleep method of embedded system. The method mainly comprises the following processing steps: 1, in the system operating status, judging whether no operation is performed for long time to ensure that if so, the system preservation process is carried out after the hardware operation is ensured to be completed and then the system is closed to enter the deep-sleep mode, or receiving a system-closing signal; 2, starting the system, searching a deep-sleep block after the mapping and initializing of memory; after finding the effective deep-sleep sign, performing system data recovery process; and 3. after successfully recovering the system, performing the initializing of the related hardware, and returning to the state before the deep-sleep mode. By using the method of the invention, after the device is powered down or powered off and powered on again, the device can automatically return to the original interface to greatly reduce the power consumption of the stand-by system and save energy and electrical energy, thus prolonging the service time of the battery and ensuring the service life of the related hardware while largely increasing the startup speed of the system.

The present invention provides a switching power supply which reduces power consumption in a standby state and improves power supply efficiency. At the time of starting a standby mode in which the output voltage VFB of the IV converter exceeds a standby detection upper limit voltage from a reference voltage source, the switching operation of the switching element is stopped. This stopping reduces the output voltage VFB of the IV converter along with a power supply voltage VO. When the output voltage VFB is lower than a standby detection lower limit voltage from the reference voltage source, the switching operation of the switching element is resumed.

A charger has two pins for connecting with a battery therebetween, and an apparatus and method are proposed to determine to wake up or turn off the charger according to a voltage or a current detected from the two pins, to reduce the standby power consumption of the charger.

The present invention relates to a DC to AC inverter comprising a plurality of voltage controlled switching devices, where one or more of the voltage controlled switching devices is driven by a drive circuit comprising: a bridge switching circuit (59), a transformer (28) with a primary winding (29) and a secondary-winding (30), a transition selection circuit (60) coupled to a control terminal of a respective voltage controlled switching device (40) of the inverter, at least one inductance (37) that forms at least one resonant circuit with the input capacitance (41) of the control terminal, wherein the bridge switching circuit (59) can be operated to generate drive pulses via the selection circuit (60) to operate the respective voltage controlled switching device (40).

The invention provides a pulse width modulation switching power supply controller and a switching power supply and belongs to the technical field of electronic integrated circuits. The pulse width modulation switching power supply controller and the switching power supply are widely applied to a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) mode AC / DC (Alternating Current / Direct Current) switching power supply system. The PWM controller comprises an FB (Feed Back) sampling circuit, a current mode selecting circuit, a square wave generating circuit and the like. The pulse width modulation switching power supply controller has the advantages of being capable of achieving self-adaption of the system working frequency under different loads and reducing standby power consumption of the switching power supply.

A low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator that includes an error amplifier which compares a reference voltage with a feedback voltage of an output voltage and outputs an error signal based on the result of the comparison, the error amplifier being biased by an input voltage; a first MOS transistor having a gate electrically connected to the error signal, a source electrically connected to the input voltage and a drain electrically connected to the output voltage; a voltage divider which transmits a predetermined part of the output voltage to the error amplifier as feedback voltage; and a level limiter which limits a level of the output voltage from changing beyond and below an offset voltage when a level of a load current changes. In accordance with embodiments, A predetermined number of comparators and MOS transistor type-switches are provided to enhance the slew ratio of the regulated output voltage and to reduce standby electricity consumption.

The invention provides a control chip and a switch power supply, wherein the control chip is electrically connected with a switch tube; the control chip comprises a voltage collecting module, an error amplifying module, a time collecting module and a constant-voltage constant-current module; the voltage collecting module is used for collecting the feedback voltage of the output voltage; the error amplifying module is used for comparing and amplifying the feedback voltage collected by the voltage collecting module and a reference voltage, and outputting an error voltage; the time collecting module is used for acquiring a demagnetization time signal according to the feedback voltage collected by the voltage collecting module; and the constant-voltage constant-current module is used for collecting a peak value current feedback signal of the switch tube, regulating the frequency and duty ratio of a control signal according to the demagnetization time signal of the time collecting module, the error voltage of the error amplifying module and the collected peak value current feedback signal, as well as controlling the switch tube according to the control signal. The control chip and the switch power supply with the control chip can lower the system standby power consumption.

The invention discloses a charge pump regulator, a memory and Internet of things equipment. The charge pump regulator comprises a charge pump circuit, a voltage dividing circuit, a clock oscillator, a first voltage comparison circuit and a logic control unit, wherein the output end of the charge pump circuit is connected with the output end of the charge pump regulator and outputs stable voltage; the voltage dividing circuit is used for carrying out voltage dividing on the stable voltage to output divided voltage; the clock oscillator is used for providing driving clock signals for the charge pump circuit; reference voltage and divided voltage are inputted to the first input end and the second input end of the first voltage comparison circuit respectively, and a first comparison result and a second comparison result are outputted; and the logic control unit is used for outputting first control level to the clock oscillator according to the first comparison result and the second comparison result, and when the first comparison result and / or the second comparison result indicate(s) that the stable voltage is smaller than a lower limit value or larger than an upper limit value, the first control level outputted by the logic control unit controls the clock oscillator to output driving clock signals or stop outputting the driving clock signals. The standby power consumption of the charge pump regulator can be reduced.

An electronic apparatus is removed from a power supply apparatus and that can be certified by detecting a secondary-side transformer coil by a no-load detecting unit. The no-load detecting unit is configured to turn off an output switch unit and a power factor correction and pulse width modulation controller. An intermittent driving unit is configured to drive a start unit once a pre-determined time. The start unit is configured to drive the power factor correction and pulse width modulation controller. A load detecting unit is configured to detect that the electronic apparatus is connected to the power supply apparatus. The load detecting unit is configured to drive the intermittent driving unit. The intermittent driving unit is configured to drive the start unit. The start unit is configured to drive the power factor correction and pulse width modulation controller.

A display includes a power supply system using a power controller to switch a power switch to control power delivery, and an image scalar receiving a supply voltage and a supply current from the power supply system. An apparatus and method are proposed to determine a control signal in a standby mode by monitoring the supply voltage or the supply current, to wake up or turn off the power controller to reduce the switching times of the power switch in the standby mode, thereby reducing the switching loss of the power switch and the standby power consumption of the display.

In an integrated circuit device, a circuit for maintaining asserted values on an input output pin of the device when a functional block of the device is placed in a sleep mode. The circuit includes an interface for coupling a functional block of a processor to an input and output pin and an output storage element coupled to the interface for storing a current value of the input output pin. The circuit further includes a sleep mode enable for controlling the output storage element to store the current value of the input output pin prior to the functional block being entering a sleep mode and cause the current value of the input output pin to remain asserted after the functional block is in sleep mode. The sleep mode enable is also to deactivate the storage element when the sleep mode is exited.

An apparatus and method for a flyback power converter reduce the standby output voltage of the flyback power converter by switching the reference voltage provided by a shunt regulator of the flyback power converter or the ratio of voltage divider resistors of the shunt regulator, to reduce the standby power consumption by an output feedback circuit of the flyback power converter, the shunt regulator, and the voltage divider resistors, and thereby the power loss of the flyback power converter in standby mode.

In an integrated circuit device, a power circuit for maintaining asserted values on an input output pin of the device when a functional block of the device is placed in a sleep mode. The device includes a power circuit disposed along the periphery of the device, the power circuit configured to maintain power when the device is placed in a low-power mode. A plurality of input output blocks are included in the device and are for receiving external inputs for the integrated circuit device and for providing outputs from the integrated circuit device. The power circuit is coupled to provide power to at least one of the input output blocks to maintain state when the integrated circuit device is in the low-power mode.

The semiconductor integrated circuit device employs on the same silicon substrate a plurality of kinds of MOS transistors with different magnitudes of tunnel current flowing either between the source and gate or between the drain and gate thereof. These MOS transistors include tunnel-current increased MOS transistors at least one of which is for use in constituting a main circuit of the device. The plurality of kinds of MOS transistors also include tunnel-current reduced or depleted MOS transistors at least one of which is for use with a control circuit. This control circuit is inserted between the main circuit and at least one of the two power supply units.

The invention discloses a networking interconnection method and system based on low-power-consumption Bluetooth piconets. According to the method and system, multiple peripheral devices broadcast pieces of service type information, containing whether multiple wireless connections are supported or not, corresponding to the peripheral devices respectively to the periphery at low power consumption in a connectable non-directional mode; a central Bluetooth device generates a corresponding peripheral device service list according to the Bluetooth addresses, the pieces of service type information and the pieces of service address information corresponding to the peripheral Bluetooth devices which are connected so that networking of the central device and the peripheral devices can be achieved; after networking is completed, corresponding piconets are established for the central device and the peripheral devices, and any two devices are wirelessly connected according to the corresponding peripheral device service list. By establishing the piconets, any two of the central device and the peripheral devices can be wirelessly connected, user operation is easy and convenience, and the devices is ultralow in stand-by power consumption at ordinary times; interconnection is convenient, operation is convenience, energy is saved, environmental friendliness is achieved, and great convenience is brought.