Abstract: A regulated power supply interface has a current feedback and voltage level shift circuit that monitors power supply output (load) current and controllably diverts current to a current reference node. A differential amplifier-based, voltage feedback and voltage level shift circuit monitors the load voltage and controllably diverts output current to the current reference node. A current mode setpoint circuit has multiple voltage dropping current paths, through one or more of which a summation of the diverted load currents are programmably directed, to generate a control voltage for controlling the operation of a pulse width modulator unit of the regulated power supply.

Abstract: A power supply system has redundant regulated power supplies, whose output ports are diode-ORed to an output node. One of the power supplies outputs a regulated output voltage that is sufficient to meet current demand of a load coupled to the output node. Each power supply has an associated monitoring circuit that monitors the voltage drop across its OR-ing diode. The monitoring circuit for a non-dominant power supply controls its operation so that the non-dominant supply provides a reduced current through its diode to the output node that is less than the current demand of the load, but sufficient to forward bias the diode, and thereby enable the non-dominant supply to immediately respond to a load change, such as an interruption in the operation of the dominant power supply.

Abstract: A regulated power supply interface has a current feedback and voltage level shift circuit that monitors power supply output (load) current and controllably diverts current to a current reference node. A differential amplifier-based, voltage feedback and voltage level shift circuit monitors the load voltage and controllably diverts output current to the current reference node. A current mode setpoint circuit has multiple voltage dropping current paths, through one or more of which a summation of the diverted load currents are programmably directed, to generate a control voltage for controlling the operation of a pulse width modulator unit of the regulated power supply.

Abstract: A power supply system has redundant regulated power supplies, whose output ports are diode-ORed to an output node. One of the power supplies outputs a regulated output voltage that is sufficient to meet current demand of a load coupled to the output node. Each power supply has an associated monitoring circuit that monitors the voltage drop across its OR-ing diode. The monitoring circuit for a non-dominant power supply controls its operation so that the non-dominant supply provides a reduced current through its diode to the output node that is less than the current demand of the load, but sufficient to forward bias the diode, and thereby enable the non-dominant supply to immediately respond to a load change, such as an interruption in the operation of the dominant power supply.