Switching control of an inverter is performed such that rising and falling of a terminal voltage of U phase including upper and lower arm switching elements are calculated, and the calculated rising of the terminal voltage of U phase and falling of a terminal voltage of V phase or W phase or the calculated falling of the terminal voltage of U phase and rising of the terminal voltage of V phase or W phase are synchronized with each other.

A voltage modulation circuit includes a charge pump circuit and a voltage detection circuit. The voltage detection circuit is coupled to the charge pump circuit. Herein, the charge pump circuit supports a plurality of power supply modes with different conversion rates and is configured to perform a power supply operation in a selected power supply mode of the power supply modes according to a control signal, to convert a power supply voltage into at least one output voltage, and to output a wake-up signal when switching of the selected power supply mode meets a specific condition. The voltage detection circuit is activated by the wake-up signal, and is configured to detect the output voltage and to suspend the power supply operation of the charge pump circuit according to a magnitude of the output voltage.

A power converter includes a first contact, a second contact, a third contact, a fourth contact, a first ground contact, a second ground contact, a transformer, and a first switching element to a fifth switching element. The first switching element to the fifth switching element is controllable to switch on or off to form a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein the first configuration allows a power input to the first contact to be transmitted to the third contact through a first side of the transformer, and the second configuration allows a power input to the second contact to be transmitted to the fourth contact through the first side to a second side of the transformer, thereby to distribute the DC power in the same circuit structure.

A control system controls a plurality of controllable units with a central control device and further has a plurality of control modules, each of which is assigned to one of the units to be controlled. The central control device is set up to exchange digital data with each control module. The control modules form a connection network, wherein each control module is connected to at least one other control module via a communication line so that data exchange between them is possible. One of the control modules is directly connected to the central control device as the master node of the connection network, and the control modules are set up to form a communication network within the connection network, so that the data exchange between the central control device and each control module can be respectively carried out via an assigned communication path within the communication network.

A power supply block has multiple isolated power channels, the power supply comprising an interface magnetic component having multiple windings, each winding connected to a separate one of the isolated channels. A test and measurement instrument has a connector to allow the instrument to connect to a device under test, and a power supply block having multiple isolated power channels, the power supply block comprising an interface magnetic component having multiple windings, each winding connected to a separate one of the isolated power channels.

An electronic device includes: a switching regulator configured to generate a conversion voltage with respect to an input voltage, based on a switching signal of a first frequency, and output the conversion voltage; a stabilization circuit including a capacitor element connected to a load device via a first node and configured to generate a load voltage by stabilizing the conversion voltage by using the capacitor element and output the load voltage to the load device; a frequency sensing circuit configured to sense a frequency of the load voltage and output sensing information about the frequency of the load voltage; and a frequency booster circuit configured to form a first current path connected to the first node, based on the sensing information.

This application relates to computing circuitry, and in particular to analogue computing circuitry suitable for neuromorphic computing. An analogue computation unit for processing data is supplied with a first voltage from a voltage regulator which is operable in a sequence of phases to cyclically regulate the first voltage. A controller is configured to control operation of the voltage regulator and/or the analogue computation unit, such that the analogue computation unit processes data during a plurality of compute periods that avoid times at which the voltage regulator undergoes a phase transition which is one of a predefined set of phase transitions between defined phases in said sequence of phases. This avoids performing computation operations during a phase transition of the voltage regulator that could result in a transient or disturbance in the first voltage, which could adversely affect the computing.

A power converter includes an inverter circuit connected to positive and negative terminals of a direct current power supply, three H-bridge circuits, and a power conversion controller. The conversion controller calculates a first three-phase common voltage common to three phases; generates second phase voltage commands obtained by superimposing the calculated first three-phase common voltage on first phase voltage commands; calculates a second three-phase common voltage; generates third phase voltage commands obtained by superimposing the calculated second three-phase common voltage on the second phase voltage commands; and generates gate signals to first legs based on polarity of the third phase voltage commands and generates gate signals to second legs according to the third phase voltage commands. When a three-phase sum of the three-phase pulse voltage commands is non-zero, the conversion controller calculates the second three-phase common voltage so that the polarity of the third phase voltage commands is not switched.

Multiphase series capacitor DC-DC converters are provided, including: a power stage circuit configured to convert an input DC voltage into a stable DC voltage required by a load, where the power stage circuit includes inductors of two or more phases, and there is a phase difference with a preset interval between inductor currents of phases for alternately charging the load in sequence, and a bidirectional switch is provided between inductors of every two adjacent phases, where when the bidirectional switch is turned on, the inductors of the corresponding two phases charge the load simultaneously; and a load transient response circuit configured to, when a load transient positive step occurs, control one or more bidirectional switches to be turned on to make inductors of two or more corresponding phases charge the load simultaneously. Control methods of such converters are also provided, which can realize fast response to load transient changes.

In response to a rising edge on an input pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, a method includes starting a first counter, resetting a second counter, and forcing a second PWM signal to a logic low level. In response to the first counter reaching a first match value, the method includes asserting a rising edge on a first PWM signal. In response to a falling edge on the input PWM signal, the method further includes causing a falling edge of the first PWM signal, resetting the first counter, and starting the second counter. In response to the second counter reaching a second match value, the method includes asserting a rising edge of the second PWM signal.