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8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07)
A DLL Based Multiphase Hysteretic DC-DC Converter
San Jose, California
March 26-March 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2795-7
Pengfei Li, Student Member, IEEE; University of Florida, USA
Rizwan Bashirullah, Member, IEEE; University of Florida, USA
Near-load DC-DC converter insertion based on multiphase current-sharing topologies and hysteretic control techniques can be used to reduce external current requirements, decrease the size of on-die capacitance and output filter and provide fast load response to enable multiple supply domains in future microprocessor platforms. In this paper, a new delay locked loop (DLL) based multiphase hysteretic controller is presented. This topology utilizes the switching frequency from one hysteretic controller to automatically synchronize the remaining phases and eliminate the need for external synchronization. A dedicated duty cycle control loop is used to enable current sharing and ripple cancellation. A four phase buck converter is designed with this control scheme in 0.6?m CMOS technology. The results show that less than 0.1% duty cycle resolution can be achieved for nearly equal current sharing among all phases and low output ripple. The proposed DLL based controller measures roughly 0.6mm by 0.4mm and dissipates approximately 40mW at 60MHz.
Citation:
Pengfei Li, Rizwan Bashirullah, "A DLL Based Multiphase Hysteretic DC-DC Converter," isqed, pp.98-101, 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), 2007
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