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US 9,000,746 B2Granted
Power converter with split power supply
AssigneeInternational Rectifier Corporation
InventorsMichael A. Briere, Jason Zhang, HamidTony Bahramian
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Abstract
A power converter driver that is supplied with two different voltages.
Claims9
A driver arrangement comprising:
- a high side predriver to drive a high side switch of a driver half-bridge included in said driver arrangement, said high side predriver supplied by a first voltage;
- a low side predriver to drive a low side switch of said driver half-bridge, said low side predriver supplied by a second voltage greater than said first voltage;
- said driver half-bridge coupled between said first voltage and ground.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.