A differential driving circuit includes a source current source, a sink current source, an H-bridge circuit, an error detector unit and a circuit network. The H-bridge circuit is connected to the source current source and the sink current source, that has a first output terminal and a second output terminal, and that generates differential output from the first output terminal and the second output terminal. The error detector unit adjusts a common mode voltage at the first output terminal and the second output terminal of the H-bridge circuit by controlling at least one of the source current source and the sink current source. The circuit network is configured by resistors and capacitors connected to the first output terminal and the second output terminal of the H-bridge circuit.

A lens driver or lens driver circuitry for an ophthalmic apparatus comprising an electronic system which actuates a variable-focus optic is disclosed herein. The lens driver is part of an electronic system incorporated into the ophthalmic apparatus. The electronic system includes one or more batteries or other power sources, power management circuitry, one or more sensors, clock generation circuitry, control algorithms and circuitry, and lens driver circuitry. The lens driver circuitry includes one or more power sources, one or more high voltage generators and one or more switching circuits. Specifically, the lens driver comprises an H-bridge/H-bridge controller for providing the proper voltage, including polarity, to drive the electronic included in the ophthalmic apparatus.

In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to transform a first control signal to produce an isolated second control signal, to receive a pair of floating power supply voltages at opposing ends of a totem-pole series of driver metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), and to clamp an output of a driver apparatus to one of the pair of floating power supply voltages. The isolated second control signal may operate to control current flow through the driver MOSFETs. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are described.

A gate driver circuit capable of quickly driving a semiconductor device without erroneous ignitions. It has a positive power supply for forward bias, a negative power supply for backward bias, a first bias circuit that outputs the positive- or negative-power-supply voltage according to gate driver signal S, a capacitor that is charged by the negative-power-supply voltage when the first bias circuit outputs the negative-power-supply voltage, and a second bias circuit that supplies the gate of the semiconductor device with the positive- or negative-power-supply voltage according to gate driver signal S. Only in an early stage of a transition period during which the semiconductor device is turned on, the second bias circuit supplies the gate of the semiconductor device, instead of the positive-power-supply voltage, with a voltage boosted by adding the charged voltage of the capacitor onto the positive-power-supply voltage outputted from the first bias circuit.

As one embodiment a drive circuit is disclosed. When a three-value signal including a value representing zero is input, the drive circuit outputs two two-value signals that drive two drive elements such that the difference between values representing the two two-value signals corresponds to a value representing the input three-value signal. When the value of the input three-value signal represents zero, output signals are determined in accordance with the input history of the three-value signal. The drive circuit may also be provided with a memory that records a flag value that is reversed in accordance with the input history of the input three-value signal, and the combination of the output two two-value signals being determined in accordance with the flag.

A circuit for conveying information from a sender component to a receiver component is provided. The sender component is a high side component and the receiver component is a low side component or the sender component is a low side component and the receiver component is a high side component. The low side component is arranged to drive a first electronic switch of a half bridge and the high side component is arranged to drive a second electronic switch of the half bridge. The circuit includes a first voltage-decoupling device and a second voltage-decoupling device that are arranged such that a voltage conveyed from the sender component to the receiver component is modulated by the sender component and conveyed across the first voltage-decoupling device and the second voltage-decoupling device depending on the information.

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a well, formed in the semiconductor substrate; an output terminal, electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate; a ground terminal, configured to receive a ground voltage; a detection signal generating circuit, configured to generate a negative current detection signal when an output voltage present at the output terminal is detected to be less than the ground voltage; and a control circuit, configured to apply the ground voltage or the output voltage to the well in response to the negative current detection signal. The detection signal generating circuit includes: a comparator, configured to generate the negative current detection signal by comparing an output detection voltage with the ground voltage or the threshold voltage; a bias circuit, configured to switch between applying the output voltage or a bias voltage as the output detection voltage; and a clamp circuit.

With the stabilized direct-current power supply utilizing the resonance circuit driven by the carrier, the output of the resonance circuit is rectified and smoothed to produce the output voltage of the power supply. The output voltage of the power supply being fixed, the amplitude and the frequency of the carrier driving the resonance circuit is mutually related.

There is an optimal frequency of the carrier where the power supply becomes efficient. The optimal frequency depends on the magnitude of the load connected to the output of the power supply. So the power supply feeds the output current to the amplitude on the basis of the mutual relation so as to makes the frequency of the carrier follow the optimal frequency.

Implementation of the priactical PWM controller provided with both the frequency modulation input and the amplitude modulation input is configured. The error voltage, which is the voltage difference between the output voltage and the reference voltage of the power supply, is fed back to both the frequency and the amplitude of the carrier. Integral of the error voltage is fed back to the frequency through the frequency modulation input of the PWM controller, which stabilizes the feedback to the frequency. Proportional of the error voltage and the output current of the power supply is fed back to the amplitude through the amplitude modulation input. The output current, considered to be differential of the output voltage and then the error voltage, sets the base line of the amplitude which is modulated by the proportional of the error voltage. The mutual rekation control the base line of the amplitude so that the frequency of the carrier can track the optimal frequency.

A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, controlling a vehicle using switching loss information of a semiconductor switching device, the switching loss information derived from a conduction loss and a combined conduction and switching loss.

A circuit for conveying information from a sender component to a receiver component is provided. The sender component is a high side component and the receiver component is a low side component or the sender component is a low side component and the receiver component is a high side component. The low side component is arranged to drive a first electronic switch of a half bridge and the high side component is arranged to drive a second electronic switch of the half bridge. The circuit includes a first voltage-decoupling device and a second voltage-decoupling device that are arranged such that a voltage conveyed from the sender component to the receiver component is modulated by the sender component and conveyed across the first voltage-decoupling device and the second voltage-decoupling device depending on the information.