A charging system for charging an electric vehicle battery, including a charging inlet connected to an external direct current (DC) charging station providing a predefined charging inlet voltage, a battery having a nominal voltage of 400V or 800V connected to the charging inlet, the battery including two 400V-battery units, and a voltage outlet, the voltage outlet supplying an output voltage to an auxiliary component connected to the voltage outlet having a nominal voltage corresponding to the nominal voltage of the battery, a DC/DC converter converting the charging inlet voltage into the nominal voltage of the auxiliary component, and at least three circuit breakers being arranged to connect the two 400V-battery units to form a charging circuit having a nominal charging voltage corresponding to the supplied charging inlet voltage and/or to selectively integrate the DC/DC converter into the charging circuit to provide the auxiliary component with the nominal voltage during charging.

The present disclosure provides a conversion system with a high voltage side and a low voltage side, including: a plurality of power units, each power unit including: a plurality of DC/DC converters, when in normal operation, one part of DC/DC converters being in a working state and other DC/DC converters being in a cold backup state; a plurality of bypass circuits connected in parallel to the corresponding DC/DC converters; a detection unit connected to each DC/DC converter, and detects the DC/DC converter; and a control unit coupled to the detection unit and each of the plurality of DC/DC converters; and a main control unit coupled with each control unit and configured to receive the preset signal of respective control unit and outputs a bypass signal and a release signal to the corresponding control unit according to the preset signal.

A system of providing power to a chip on a mainboard includes: a first power supply, located on the mainboard, and being configured to receive a first voltage and to provide a second voltage; and a second power supply and a third power supply, located on the mainboard and disposed at different sides of the chip, each of the second power supply and the third power supply is electrically connected to the first power supply to receive the second voltage, the second power supply provides a third voltage to the chip, the third power supply provides a fourth voltage to the chip, and Z.sub.BUS_2 ≤5*(Z.sub.PS2_.sub.2+Z.sub.PDN_.sub.2), Z.sub.BUS_2 is bus impedance between the first power supply and the third power supply, Z.sub.PS2_.sub.2 is equivalent output impedance of the third power supply, and Z.sub.PDN_.sub.2 is transmission impedance between the third power supply and the chip.

A system of providing power to a chip on a mainboard includes: a first power supply, located on the mainboard, and being configured to receive a first voltage and to provide a second voltage; and a second power supply and a third power supply, located on the mainboard and disposed at different sides of the chip, each of the second power supply and the third power supply is electrically connected to the first power supply to receive the second voltage, the second power supply provides a third voltage to the chip, the third power supply provides a fourth voltage to the chip, and Z.sub.BUS_2 ≤5*(Z.sub.PS2_.sub.2+Z.sub.PDN_.sub.2), Z.sub.BUS_2 is bus impedance between the first power supply and the third power supply, Z.sub.PS2_.sub.2 is equivalent output impedance of the third power supply, and Z.sub.PDN_.sub.2 is transmission impedance between the third power supply and the chip.

A driving circuit of a switch array for controlling one of a plurality of battery modules coupled in series, where: each battery module comprises a plurality of batteries coupled in series; the driving circuit is configured to generate corresponding driving signals to control corresponding switches in the switch array, such that one battery that is selected to be balanced, is coupled between positive and negative poles of a DC bus voltage; and a reference ground of the driving circuit is configured as the negative pole of the DC bus voltage.

In an embodiment a current limiting circuit includes a circuit configured to detect when an input or output current of a DC to DC converter exceeds or falls below a threshold and a controller configured to store a first value representative of a level of an output voltage of the DC to DC converter in response to the input or output current exceeding or falling below a first threshold, store a second value representative of the level of the output voltage in response to the input or output current falling below a further threshold and modify a control signal based on the first and second values, wherein the control signal is modified based on the first and second values so that the control signal brings the output voltage to an intermediate voltage level between the level of the output voltage represented by the first value and the level of the output voltage represented by the second value.

In an embodiment a current limiting circuit includes a circuit configured to detect when an input or output current of a DC to DC converter exceeds or falls below a threshold and a controller configured to store a first value representative of a level of an output voltage of the DC to DC converter in response to the input or output current exceeding or falling below a first threshold, store a second value representative of the level of the output voltage in response to the input or output current falling below a further threshold and modify a control signal based on the first and second values, wherein the control signal is modified based on the first and second values so that the control signal brings the output voltage to an intermediate voltage level between the level of the output voltage represented by the first value and the level of the output voltage represented by the second value.

A charging device of the present invention includes a DC-DC converter, a charging circuit that charges a secondary battery, a power supply voltage detecting circuit that detects an input voltage Ve, an output voltage setting circuit that sets an output voltage of the DC-DC converter, and a charging control section that controls the charging circuit and the output voltage setting circuit based on the input voltage Ve, and the charging control section increases the output voltage of the DC-DC converter by a predetermined voltage in a stepwise manner while monitoring the input voltage Ve, and in a case where the input voltage Ve is decreased to a first threshold voltage Vth1 or less before the output voltage of the DC-DC converter increases to a rated charging voltage, the charging control section keeps the output voltage of the DC-DC converter at a voltage that is one step lower than a voltage at a time point of the case.

In some examples, a digital frequency locked loop (DFLL) device includes a phase frequency detector (PFD) configured to receive a reference clock signal and an indicator of a primary clock signal and to determine differences between periods of the reference clock signal and the indicator. The DFLL also includes a controller coupled to the PFD. The controller is configured to store digital signals indicating a first and a second of the differences determined by the PFD, determine a period error by subtracting the second difference from the first difference, and compare the period error to a programmed threshold. The DFLL also includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) coupled to the controller, the DCO configured to provide the primary clock signal having a frequency adjusted based on the comparison.

A power supply apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided in the present disclosure, and the power supply apparatus includes: a mode selection module, configured to provide for a user to select an output mode; a reference value setting module, configured to output an output voltage reference value and an output current reference value; a current control loop and a voltage control loop, which receive reference values respectively, and output a first and a second electric signal respectively; a loop selection module, configured to transmit the first or the second electric signal to a drive module; and the drive module, configured to provide a drive signal to a main power module to control the main power module to output a constant voltage/current, and perform voltage-limiting/current-limiting protection when the output voltage or the output current is greater than or equal to a threshold voltage/current for over-voltage/over-current protection.