Patents Represented by Attorney Chapin IP Law, LL
  • Patent number: 7923974
    Abstract: A power supply system includes multiple power converter phases. A controller (e.g., a processor device) monitors energy delivery for each of multiple power converter phases that supply energy to a load. The controller analyzes the energy delivery associated with each of the multiple power converter phases to identify an imbalance of energy delivered by the multiple power converter phases to the load. Based on the analyzing and detection of an imbalance condition, the controller modifies a future order of activating the multiple power converter phases for powering the load. Accordingly, a single phase of a multiphase switching power converter may be prevented from becoming overloaded while delivering energy to power the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: CHiL Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Gary D. Martin, Robert T. Carroll