|Numéro de publication||US7898109 B2|
|Type de publication||Octroi|
|Numéro de demande||US 11/668,240|
|Date de publication||1 mars 2011|
|Date de dépôt||29 janv. 2007|
|Date de priorité||17 févr. 2004|
|État de paiement des frais||Payé|
|Autre référence de publication||DE112005000388T5, EP1723483A2, EP1723483A4, US7170197, US7595569, US7956494, US20050180068, US20050194839, US20070120423, US20100019579, WO2005079430A2, WO2005079430A3, WO2005079447A2, WO2005079447A3|
|Numéro de publication||11668240, 668240, US 7898109 B2, US 7898109B2, US-B2-7898109, US7898109 B2, US7898109B2|
|Inventeurs||Douglas D. Lopata|
|Cessionnaire d'origine||Agere Systems Inc.|
|Exporter la citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Citations de brevets (34), Citations hors brevets (15), Référencé par (2), Classifications (28), Événements juridiques (6)|
|Liens externes: USPTO, Cession USPTO, Espacenet|
This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 11/059,783, filed on Feb. 17, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,170,197 which claimed the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of provisional application No. 60/545,339 filed Feb. 17, 2004, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to a switching power supply circuit for electronic devices.
Modern computers are generally designed to receive expansion cards that add functionality to the computer. Such expansion cards may include, for example, a LAN network interface card, a wireless LAN card, a graphic accelerator card, etc., and are typically designed to be compatible with a given industry specification (e.g. mPCI, Cardbus, PC-card, etc.). These expansion cards are typically plugged in to the “host” computer and operate from the host's power supply or supplies. Certain industry specifications (e.g., the mPCI specification) presently require expansion cards to operate either from a main power supply or an auxiliary power supply (e.g., derived from a battery), which typically provide supply voltages of either 3.3V or 5.0V to the various circuits in the computer. In general, however, due to advances in integration technology and power management, modern integrated circuits (“ICs”) typically are designed to operate from a supply voltage of 3.3V (rather than 5.0V), and many are now designed to operate from a supply voltage of 1.5 V.
For these reasons, expansion cards conventionally include a power controller to select either a main or auxiliary supply voltage (which may be either 3.3V or 5.0V) from a host computer and convert the selected supply voltage to the voltages that are needed by the IC's on the expansion card. The power controller conventionally also functions as an on/off switch for the expansion card, so that the CPU in the host computer may shut down the expansion card as needed, e.g., to save power in a standby mode. It further conventionally includes a “bypass” circuit that is used to pass one of the supply voltages directly to the ICs on the expansion card without any voltage conversion, e.g., when the host voltage is so close to the voltages needed by the expansion card that voltage conversion is impossible. The power controller may also include circuits for monitoring the host main and auxiliary supply voltages and for sending a “reset” or shut-down signal to the ICs on the expansion card in the event of an overvoltage or undervoltage condition or in response to a RESET command from the host computer. Finally, the power controller may also include a standby supply circuit that provides power to certain circuits on the expansion card that remain active even when the expansion card is placed in standby mode (e.g., a wake-up circuit).
These features have conventionally been implemented via a custom-designed power controller circuit using a large number of discrete components and ICs. For example, a conventional power controller may require more than 28 discrete components, including a switching IC for on/off switching, a supply selection switch IC, one or more “main” DC/DC converter ICs having a linear regulator or a high-efficiency switched mode power supply (“SMPS”) converter, a “standby” supply DC/DC converter IC, and several supply monitoring and reset logic circuits including internal references, voltage comparators, time-delay circuits, etc.
DC/DC converter IC 114, as shown in
As is known in the art, DC/DC converter IC 114 operates by switching the high-side power transistor Q3 in a pulse-width-modulated manner, while simultaneously switching the low-side transistor Q4 in an opposite fashion. In other words, when transistor Q3 is open, transistor Q4 is closed, and vice versa. As such, the source voltage at pin 216 is periodically connected to inductor L1 and capacitor C1. The voltage developed across capacitor C1 powers the load at node 234. In addition, the output voltage is typically sensed, such as by a voltage divider, and fed as one input to an error amplifier (in control logic 220). A reference voltage is fed to a second input of the error amplifier. The output of the error amplifier feeds one input of a comparator (also in control logic 220). The other comparator input is typically fed by a periodic control waveform, such as a triangle wave. The comparator, in turn, operates the power switch with a series of control pulses, the width of which are used to regulate the load voltage to the desired level despite fluctuations in the load.
In conventional expansion cards, additional power converters or linear regulator ICs (LDO1 and LDO2, not shown) may further be connected (via line 228) to IC pin 212 of the supply selection switch 108. These additional regulators may be used to provide additional supply voltages that may be needed by the circuits on the expansion card (e.g., 1.5 V).
It will be recognized that the conventional power controller described above is both complex and expensive. The power controller for each expansion card is conventionally custom designed. Although custom designs provide the benefit that the power controller can be optimized for a given expansion card's power requirements, the labor cost required to design a conventional power controller is very high. Because of this high labor cost and the cost of the numerous discrete components contained in the conventional power controller, the conventional power controller represents a substantial part of the overall cost of an expansion card. It would therefore be desirable to provide a power controller that could be integrated onto a single monolithic integrated circuit with a reduced number of components.
The present invention provides a monolithic, highly integrated power supply controller circuit capable of providing various voltages for circuits on an expansion card, either from a main supply source or an auxiliary supply source.
The invention provides a dual-supply switching converter comprising as few as two high-side switching transistors and a low-side rectifying device. In accordance with the invention, the two high-side switching transistors each are connected to a different power supply. Operation from either power supply is then made possible by disabling the high-side transistor connected to the non-selected power supply, and then operating the high-side transistor connected to the selected power supply in conjunction with the low-side rectifying device to produce a switched, regulated output in the conventional manner. Transfer from one power supply to the other is accomplished via a break-before-make technique (i.e., the operating high-side transistor is disabled before the other high-side transistor is caused to begin operating as a high-frequency switch).
The invention further provides a method of producing a regulated voltage from a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage, comprising the steps of: (a) providing the first supply voltage to the first high-side switch; (b) providing the second supply voltage to the second high-side switch; (c) selecting one of the first and second high-side switches to be a first active switch and the other one of the first and second high-side switches to be a first inactive switch; (d) deactivating the high-side switch selected as the first inactive switch; (e) switching the high-side switch selected as the first active switch at a switching frequency to produce a switched output signal; and (f) rectifying the switched output signal to produce a regulated output signal.
The invention still further provides a multiple-output power supply device, comprising: a monolithic integrated circuit including a first switching converter on a first portion of the monolithic integrated circuit; a second switching converter on a second portion of the monolithic integrated circuit; and a control circuit connected to the first and second switching converters and capable of enabling and disabling one or both of the first and second switching converters. The first switching converter may include a terminal for receiving a first supply voltage and a terminal for receiving a second supply voltage. The first switching converter may further be capable of converting a selected one of the first and second supply voltages to a regulated output signal.
The invention also provides a method for providing a plurality of regulated output voltages via a single monolithic integrated circuit, comprising the steps of: providing a first switching converter on a first portion of the monolithic integrated circuit; providing a second switching converter on a second portion of the monolithic integrated circuit; providing a control circuit connected to the first and second switching converters; and enabling and disabling one or both of the first and second switching converters via the control circuit.
In another embodiment, the invention provides a switching converter having n-tub bias-voltage control. The switching converter comprises a first high-side switching transistor having a first control terminal, a first output terminal, a first input terminal capable of receiving a first supply voltage, a first n-tub, and a first n-tub terminal connected to the first n-tub. A low-side rectifier is connected to the output terminal of the first high-side switching transistor. A first control circuit is connected to the control terminal of the first high-side switching transistor and is adapted to cause the first high-side switching transistor to switch between a substantially conductive state and a substantially nonconductive state at a switching frequency. A tub control circuit is connected to the first n-tub terminal and is adapted to produce a first n-tub bias voltage that is sufficient to reduce at least one parasitic current in a first parasitic element in the first switching transistor.
In still another embodiment, the invention is a method of operating a switching converter with n-tub bias-voltage control. A first control circuit switches a first high-side switching transistor between a substantially conductive state and a substantially nonconductive state at a switching frequency to produce a first voltage. A rectifier rectifies the first voltage to produce a first rectified output voltage. A tub control circuit produces a first bias voltage for a first n-tub of the first high-side switching transistor. The bias voltage is sufficient to reduce at least one parasitic current in a first parasitic element in the first high-side switching transistor.
Various embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail in conjunction with the annexed drawings, in which:
As described above, the present invention is a highly integrated power controller for providing various voltages to circuits on an expansion card. The extensive level of circuit integration in the present invention is accomplished by a unique combination of the functions conventionally performed by a voltage supply selection IC with the functions conventionally performed by a switching DC/DC converter.
Control circuit 406 may be implemented via combinational logic, as in an ASIC, or via a microcontroller or simple microprocessor. Control circuit 406 preferably includes an algorithm for determining whether the main supply voltage or the auxiliary supply voltage should be selected as the supply source at a given time. This algorithm is predetermined and may be based on a variety of factors, including the quality or voltage level of the main and auxiliary supply voltages Vcc1 and Vcc2 or the receipt of a predetermined control signal from a host computer.
After control circuit 406 determines that either the main supply voltage or the auxiliary supply voltage should be selected as the supply source, control circuit 406 outputs a suitable control signal to the gate of the high-side transistor associated with the non-selected supply source (e.g., Q1), so that that transistor is placed into a fully nonconductive state. Control circuit 406 further produces control signals causing the high-side transistor associated with the selected supply (e.g., Q2) to open and close at a predetermined rate and with a predetermined pulse width, and causing the low-side transistor Q3 to operate in reverse of the selected high-side transistor, as in a standard single-source switching converter. The above control signals may be produced in accordance with techniques well-known to those skilled in the art of switching DC/DC converters. In this manner, dual-supply switching converter 400 is capable of selecting one of the supply source voltages (main or auxiliary) and converts the selected voltage to a lower voltage at output terminal 424.
DSSC 400 may further include current sensing devices 410 and 412 to feed back a small portion of the current flowing through high-side transistors Q1 and Q2 to the control circuit 406. These current sensing devices 410 and 412 may be implemented via small transistors connected in parallel with high-side transistors Q1 and Q2, in the manner known to those skilled in the art. Control circuit 406 may then also monitor the current through the selected transistor (Q1 or Q2) and stabilize it using conventional cycle-by-cycle current limiting techniques.
In an alternative embodiment, low-side transistor Q3 may be replaced by a high-power Schottky rectifying diode of the type conventionally used in certain conventional single-transistor switching DC/DC converter circuits.
DSSC 400 may also include a tub control circuit 408 to control the biasing of the n-tub (also known as the n-well) of switching transistors Q1 and Q2 during switching and transfer from one source to the other source. Tub control circuit 408 monitors the output voltage, the two input voltages, and the voltages at various locations in the n-tub and produces a tub terminal bias voltage that is sufficient to reduce parasitic currents in the parasitic elements inherently present in transistors Q1 and Q2. The tub control circuit may be implemented via known techniques, such as those used in charge pump circuits. In addition, because the tub current may be as high as several hundred milliamperes, the n-tubs for each of transistors Q1 and Q2 should be connected via large tub ties so that the voltage drop across the tub ties is minimized.
Initially, both the main power supply voltage and the auxiliary power supply voltage are shown as “off.” At time 512, the main power supply voltage ramps up to its normal level (e.g., 5.0 V), and the DSSC commences switching Q1 and Q3 to generate the LX square-wave output. At time 514, the auxiliary power supply ramps up to its normal level. At time 516, the control circuit determines that the DSSC should switch from the main power supply to the auxiliary power supply. This determination may be made in accordance with a predetermined algorithm based on a variety of factors, including the quality or level of the main and auxiliary supply voltages and the “preferred” source for a given application, such as utility power rather than battery power.
The determination to switch from one supply to the other is reflected in
Between times 524 and 530, the DSSC continues running from the auxiliary power supply. If, for some reason, the auxiliary power supply signal PS2 should turn off or become invalide (as shown at time 528), the DSSC will transfer back to the main power supply. Accordingly, at time 530 the DSSC is turned “off,” high-side transistor Q2 is deselected (after delay DT4) and high-side transistor Q1 is reselected (after delay DT5). After a total delay DT6, at time 540 the DSSC is turned back on and the LX output is restarted.
Preferably, the transfer from one supply source to the other is made as rapidly as possible, in order to avoid transient voltage effects from appearing at output Vout. For example, if the DSSC is operated at a 1.44 MHz switching frequency (or about a 700 ns clock cycle), the transfer is preferably accomplished within one clock cycle.
In a further embodiment, an optional inductor bypass transistor Q4 (shown in phantom in
The DSSC as described above represents a significant improvement over conventional power controllers. Conventional power controllers require two high-power switching transistors in a voltage supply selection IC and two additional high-power switching transistors in a switching DC/DC converter IC. Thus, conventional power controllers require a total of four transistors, each of which must be a relatively large, high-power, low-impedance device. In contrast, the present invention requires only three transistors—two high-side transistors for selecting one of the two voltage supply sources and for providing high-side switching, and one low-side transistor for maintaining the flow of current through the series inductor and the load when the high-side transistors are “off.” Alternatively, if a rectifying diode is used as the low-side rectifying device, then the present invention only requires the two high-side transistors and the diode. Moreover, the separate ICs in conventional power controllers require separate IC packaging, separate pins, separate power leads, separate control circuits, separate I/O circuits, etc. Using the DSSC in the present invention, these redundant elements are eliminated. The overall reduction in the number of circuit elements has yielded a DSSC that is significantly smaller than conventional power controllers.
Based on the reduction in circuit size attributable to the DSSC, the present inventors have succeeded in creating a multi-function power controller on a single integrated circuit having a die area of only 4.0 mm2.
In order to provide a variety of regulated supply voltages typically needed by various integrated circuits in a PC expansion card, e.g., a wireless network interface card, the first DSSC 623 (comprising Q1-Q3) preferably converts the selected main or auxiliary supply voltage to a regulated “main” 3.3V power at node 606, while the second DSSC 635 (comprising Q4-Q6) preferably converts the main or auxiliary power input to a lower voltage, such as 2.0 V, at node 612. Each DSSC 623,635 further includes a feedback connection between nodes 606, 612 and terminals FB_3.3 and FB_2.0, which are further connected (within DSSC controllers 622, 636) to resistive voltage dividers 618, 620 and 638,640. The feedback voltage output from the voltage dividers is then used to adjust the frequency of the switching of the switching transistors Q1-Q6. The oscillator and ramp generator signals customarily needed by switching converters are generated in block 628.
The MFPC 600 further may comprise two low-drop-out regulators (“LDO1” and “LDO2”) 646, 648. As shown in
The MFPC 600 further may include a stand-by supply, e.g., for supplying a WMAC standby current and supplying power to the various control and logic circuits on the MFPC 600. The stand-by supply is preferably provided via a separate host supply source-selection switch in block 624 (connected to VCC_2.0 and AUX_2.0), followed by a third low-drop-out regulator 642 that preferably has a very low quiescent current. Regulator 642 preferably provides a 3.3V supply voltage needed by the logic circuits in the two DSSC controllers 622, 636. In order to save power in standby mode, regulator 642 is preferably a low-quiescent current device having a quiescent current of no more than 10 mA.
The MFPC 600 may also provide a bypass feature. As described in the background section above, a bypass feature is conventionally used to pass a supply source voltage from the input of a DC/DC converter directly to the output of the DC/DC converter, via a separate, discrete bypass transistor IC. In the present invention, however, this function is accomplished by placing the shunt transistors (Q3 or Q6) into a nonconductive state (i.e., turned “off”) while either the main or auxiliary switching transistors (Q1,Q2 or Q4,Q5, depending on the desired supply source, either main or auxiliary) are placed into a fully conductive state. Thus, the switching transistors are essentially placed into a 100% duty cycle. As a result, the output of the DSSCs 623,635 will be the voltage of the selected input (main or auxiliary) minus the relatively small resistive voltage drop of the switching transistors themselves. In this manner, the present invention provides a bypass function without requiring a separate bypass transistor IC.
MFPC 600 further may include a reset circuit, shown in block 628. The reset circuit includes overvoltage and undervoltage comparators that monitor the voltages received and/or generated by the various DSSCs and regulators on the MFPC 600. If they are out of range, the reset circuit generates a RESET_N signal, which indicates to other circuits connected to the MFPC 600 that the MFPC voltages are out-of-range. This supply voltage monitoring functionality removes the need for external reset circuitry.
The reset circuit further includes a separate reset-input pin “PHYRES” that allows for external reset events, e.g., from a host computer. The reset circuit will activate the RESET_N signal if it receives the PHYRES signal. The reset circuit will also activate the RESET_N signal during the initialization and power-up stage of MFPC 600.
The MFPC 600 may also include thermal monitoring and shutdown circuits (block 630). If the temperature of the MFPC IC rises above a temperature that would cause irreversible damage, the thermal monitoring and shutdown circuits disable MFPC 600 and thereby prevent from causing damage to itself or to other circuits on the expansion card. Block 630 may further include circuits for generating one or more reference voltages used in the MFPC 600.
Advantageously, the various DSSCs and regulators on the MFPC may be individually controlled (i.e., turned on and off) by control circuit 626. In the embodiment shown in
It will be recognized that MFPC 600 is not limited solely to a particular host computer configuration, or solely to applications involving expansion cards. Rather, it may be utilized in any circuit requiring the various voltages that the MFPC 600 is capable of supplying.
While the invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment thereof, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that modifications can be made to the structure and elements of the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as a whole.
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