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Advanced Control Circuit for Switched-Mode DC-DC Converter

Inactive Publication Date: 2017-07-06
TEXAS INSTR INC
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The present invention is about a voltage converter for a power supply. The converter includes a control circuit that receives an enable signal and produces a first control signal to provide a load current. A sample and hold circuit produces a third control signal to emulate the load current and a fourth control signal to sample and hold a value of the third control signal. A comparator circuit compares the third and fourth control signals and produces the enable signal if the results of the comparison are positive. The technical effect of this invention is to provide a more efficient and precise method for controlling the power supply, reducing the time needed for the system to stabilize and improving overall performance.

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As the operating frequency of the switching regulator circuit of FIG. 2A increases, several problems limit circuit efficiency.
Due to noise or other effects, reference voltage VREF can be subject to error such that output voltage VOUT is compared to VREF′, thereby producing error voltage VE as shown at FIG. 2A.
This error voltage produces a next on-time error T0 and a premature output ripple voltage 12.
The offset of CSN in CCM and DCM, is not constant and is, therefore, difficult to cancel when compared to CSP.

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[0023]The preferred embodiments of the present invention provide significant advantages over DC-DC voltage converters of the prior art as will become evident from the following detailed description.

[0024]Referring to FIG. 4, there is a DC-DC voltage regulator circuit of the present invention. Here and in the following discussion, the same reference numerals are used in various drawing figures to indicate the same circuit elements. The voltage regulator includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit 400 that produces control signal PWM and complementary control signal / PWM. In some embodiments of the present invention, complementary control signal / PWM may be omitted. N-channel transistor 402 has a current path coupled between supply voltage VDD and voltage terminal VSW controlled by PWM. N-channel transistor 404 has a current path coupled between voltage terminal VSW and reference supply voltage terminal VSS. The current path of n-channel transistor 404 is controlled by / PW...

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A voltage converter (FIG. 4) for a power supply circuit is disclosed. The voltage converter comprises a control circuit (400) coupled to receive an enable (EN) signal. The control circuit produces a first control signal (PWM) to provide a load current (IL) in response to the enable signal. A sample and hold circuit (408) is arranged to produce a third control signal (CSP) to emulate the load current and a fourth control signal (CSN′) to sample and hold value of the third control signal. A comparator circuit (416) is arranged to compare the third and fourth control signals and produce the enable signal in response to a result of the comparison.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This patent application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 330,102, filed Jul. 14, 2014, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 774,496, filed Feb. 22, 2013, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Embodiments of the present invention relate to closed loop voltage control with adaptive on time control schemes. A preferred embodiment of the invention is intended for use in a DC-DC switching regulator circuit, but the circuit may also be used in other applications that require closed loop voltage regulation.[0003]Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2A, there is a DC-DC switching regulator circuit of the prior art as disclosed by Tateishi et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 7,595,624. The switching regulator includes a pulse-width modulation (PWM) controller 52 configured to alternately activate 10 a high-side transistor 54 and a low-side transistor 56 as shown...

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IPC IPC(8): H02M3/158H02M1/08H02M1/14
CPCH02M3/158H02M2001/0009H02M1/08H02M1/14H02M3/1588Y02B70/10H02M1/0025H02M1/0009H02M1/0032
Inventor GUO, SONG
Owner TEXAS INSTR INC
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