Electronic system including voltage regulators
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsByungchul Jeon, Hyunseok Kim, Junho Huh, Jaemin Kim
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Abstract
An electronic system includes a plurality of voltage regulators configured to convert an input voltage, a plurality of inductors respectively connected to the plurality of voltage regulators to respectively output a plurality of converting currents, and a switching unit configured to select at least one converting current from among the plurality of converting currents in response to a switching control signal and supply power to a load unit based on the selected at least one converting current.
Claims19
An electronic system comprising:
- a plurality of voltage regulators configured to convert an input voltage;
- a plurality of inductors connected to respective ones of the plurality of voltage regulators, the plurality of inductors configured to output a plurality of converting currents, respectively;
- and
- a switching device configured to select at least one selected converting current from among the plurality of converting currents in response to a switching control signal, and to supply power to a load based on the at least one selected converting current,
- wherein the plurality of inductors include a first inductor and a second inductor, the first inductor configured to output a first converting current and the second inductor configured to output a second converting current, and
- the switching device is configured to select the first converting current in a first time period, and to select the second converting current in a second time period.
An electronic system comprising:
- a plurality of voltage regulators configured to convert an input voltage;
- a plurality of inductors respectively connected to respective ones of the plurality of voltage regulators, the plurality of inductors configured to output a plurality of converting currents, respectively;
- a switching device configured to select at least one selected converting current from among the plurality of converting currents in response to a switching control signal;
- a capacitor connected to an output of the switching device, the capacitor configured to generate an output voltage based on the at least one selected converting current;
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- a load configured to operate based on the output voltage.
An electronic system comprising:
- a plurality of voltage regulators configured to convert an input voltage based on a regulator control signal;
- a plurality of inductors connected to respective ones of the plurality of voltage regulators, the plurality of inductors configured to output a plurality of converting currents, respectively;
- a switching device configured to select at least one selected converting current from among the plurality of converting currents in response to a switching control signal;
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- a controller configured to,
- receive an output voltage based on the at least one selected converting current as feedback,
- compare the output voltage with a reference voltage, and
- output the switching control signal and the regulator control signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.