Reduced-ripple charge pump systems and methods
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsBenedikt Wolf, Alessandro Perrotta, Robert Prinz, Frank M Kronmüller, Jan Grabinski
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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsBenedikt Wolf, Alessandro Perrotta, Robert Prinz, Frank M Kronmüller, Jan Grabinski
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An electrical device may include an electrical load that draws current, a charge pump that provides the current to the electrical load, and clock circuitry. The charge pump may include an amplifier, a first fly capacitor, a second fly capacitor, and multiple switches. A first set of the switches may couple the first fly capacitor between a supply and ground based on a first set of clock signals and between the amplifier and the electrical load based on a second set of clock signals. A second set of the switches may couple the second fly capacitor between the supply and ground based on the second set of clock signals and between the amplifier and the electrical load based on the first set of clock signals. The clock circuitry may alternate between generating the first set of clock signals and the second set of clock signals based on the current.
An electrical device comprising:
Charge pump circuitry comprising:
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions, wherein, when executed by one or more processors, the instructions cause the one or more processors to perform operations or to control clock circuitry to perform the operations, wherein the operations comprise:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.