A multiple output voltage generator includes a voltage divider and first and second voltage converters. The voltage divider receives a power voltage and divides the power voltage to generate a first output voltage. The first and second voltage converters are coupled to the voltage divider in parallel. The first voltage converter and the second voltage converter converting the first output voltage to respectively generate a second output voltage and a third output voltage.

This disclosure discloses a single-inductor multiple-output DC-DC buck converter, which includes a power conversion unit and i charge controllers, as well as a phase-locked loop, a logic unit, a driving unit, and an input trunk duty ratio generation unit. The charge controllers are connected to the driving unit through the logic unit. The logic unit is further connected to the phase-locked loop and the phase-locked loop is connected to the driving unit through the input trunk duty ratio generation unit. The driving unit is connected to the power conversion unit. The disclosure applies charge control to every output branch path, and adopts a phase-locked loop as the cycle control, which effectively suppresses the cross modulation effect of every branch path, and does not require the last branch path to have a sufficiently heavy load, which broadens the load range, while taking into account other performance requirements concurrently.

A voltage dividing capacitor circuit includes a first capacitor voltage divider and a second capacitor voltage divider. The first capacitor voltage divider is connected to a second voltage node, the first capacitor voltage divider includes a first flying capacitor and a plurality of first switches, the second voltage node coupled to a second load capacitor, the plurality of first switches connected in series between a first voltage node and a ground node, the first voltage node coupled to a first load capacitor, and the ground node coupled to a ground voltage. The second capacitor voltage divider is connected between the first voltage node and the second voltage node, and includes a second flying capacitor and a plurality of second switches, the plurality of second switches connected in series between the first voltage node and the second voltage node.

A method of managing power and a power management circuit are presented. The power management circuit includes a three terminals switching converter coupled to a controller. The switching converter has a single inductor and two sets of switches. The first set of switches is coupled to an input terminal. The second set of switches is coupled to a battery terminal. The single inductor is provided between a first switching node and a second switching node. A controller is configured to generate a first error signal, and a second error signal and to provide the inductor current to the second terminal when the second error signal is greater than the first error signal or to the third terminal when the second error signal is less than the first error signal.

A switched capacitor modulator (SCM) includes a RF power amplifier. The RF power amplifier receives a rectified voltage and a RF drive signal and modulates an input signal in accordance with the rectified voltage to generate a RF output signal to an output terminal. A reactance in parallel with the output terminal is configured to vary in response to a control signal to vary an equivalent reactance in parallel with the output terminal. A controller generates the control signal and a commanded phase. The commanded phase controls the RF drive signal. The reactance is at least one of a capacitance or an inductance, and the capacitance or the inductance varies in accordance with the control signal.

A single-inductor multiple output (SIMO) switched-power DC-DC converter for a class-D amplifier provides outputs that are symmetric about a common-mode input voltage of the amplifier, while remaining asymmetric about a return terminal of the amplifier and switching converter. The DC-DC converter includes an inductive element, a switching circuit that energizes the inductive element from an input source, and a control circuit that controls the switching circuit. The control circuit may have multiple switching modes, and in one of the multiple switching modes, the switching circuit may couple the inductive element between outputs of the converter so that stored energy produces a differential change between the voltages of the outputs. The control circuit may implement a first control loop that maintains a common mode voltage of the pair of outputs at a predetermined voltage independent of the individual voltages of the pair of outputs.

An illustrative example embodiment of a buck-boost converter includes at least three input/output ports, at least three sets of switches, and at least two ripple current limiters. One of the sets of switches is associated with each of the input/output ports. Each of the ripple current limiters is associated with a respective one of the sets of switches between the associated set of switches and another one of the sets of switches.

A bipolar output charge pump circuit having a network of switching paths for selectively connecting an input node and a reference node for connection to an input voltage, a first pair of output nodes and a second pair of output nodes, and two pairs of flying capacitor nodes, and a controller for controlling the switching of the network of switching paths. The controller is operable to control the network of switching paths when in use with two flying capacitors connected to the two pairs of flying capacitor nodes, to provide a first bipolar output voltage at the first pair of output nodes and a second bipolar output voltage at the second pair of bipolar output nodes.

A power converter includes an input circuit, an output circuit and a controller. The output circuit may comprise a plurality of output terminals configured to be connected to a plurality of loads. The input circuit may comprise a plurality of input terminals configured to be connected to one or more power sources. An inductive element may be coupled between the input circuit and the output circuit. The output circuit may feature one or more voltage compensation circuits connected between two output terminals, the voltage compensation circuits activated to compensate an output voltage at one of the two output terminals.

A control circuit for controlling a power converter can include: a constant voltage output module, a constant current output module, and a power stage circuit; and where the control circuit is configured to select one of a first feedback signal representative of output information of the constant current output module, and a second feedback signal representative of output information of the constant voltage output module as a feedback input signal based on operation states of the constant current output module and the constant voltage output module, in order to control a switching state of a power switch of the power stage circuit.