Control circuit and control method for multiphase power supply and multiphase power supply

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12587097-B2
Application number	US-202318195353-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2023
Priority date	May 9, 2022
Publication date	Mar 24, 2026
Grant date	Mar 24, 2026

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a control circuit and a control method for a multiphase power supply and the multiphase power supply. The control circuit includes a current reference signal generator and a controller. The current reference signal generator is configured to adjust a first compensation signal according to a first scaling factor and a first voltage signal, so that the first compensation signal follows the first voltage signal in a steady state, and a current reference signal is obtained according to the first compensation signal and the first voltage signal. The controller is configured to obtain a control signal for each phase power conversion circuit according to the current reference signal to control each phase power conversion circuit to provide a power output to a load. The present disclosure can improve a phase-conversion stability of the multiphase power supply, and can achieve fast and accurate control of the multiphase power supply.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A control circuit for a multiphase power supply which comprises N-phase power conversion circuits, N is a predetermined phase number of the multiphase power supply, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, comprising:
a current reference signal generator configured to adjust a first compensation signal according to a first scaling factor and a first voltage signal, so that the first compensation signal follows the first voltage signal in a steady state, and a current reference signal is obtained according to the first compensation signal and the first voltage signal; a controller configured to obtain a control signal for each phase power conversion circuit according to the current reference signal to control each phase power conversion circuit to provide a power output to a load, wherein the first compensation signal represents a difference information between an output feedback signal of the multiphase power supply and a preset reference voltage, the first scaling factor represents information about a ratio of the predetermined phase number of the power conversion circuits and a phase number of the power conversion circuits that are turned on in the multiphase power supply, and the first voltage signal represents information about an average value of a total current of the multiphase power supply relative to the predetermined phase number of the power conversion circuits, the current reference signal generator comprises: a voltage converter for receiving the first compensation signal, wherein the voltage converter is configured to perform voltage conversion on the first compensation signal according to the first scaling factor to obtain a first node signal; a voltage regulation unit connected with an output of the voltage converter, wherein the voltage regulation unit is configured to obtain a voltage regulation signal according to the first compensation signal and the first voltage signal, wherein the current reference signal is obtained by superimposing the voltage regulation signal with the first node signal.

2 . The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first voltage signal is obtained by sampling the total current actually output from the N-phase power conversion circuits and diving the total current by N;
or the first voltage signal is obtained by filtering an output current of the power conversion circuits of the predetermined phase number of the multiphase power supply.

3 . The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined phase number of the power conversion circuits of the multiphase power supply is equal to or greater than the phase number of the power conversion circuits that are turned on in the multiphase power supply.

4 . The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first node signal represents information about the average value of the total current of the multiphase power supply relative to the phase number of the power conversion circuits that are turned on.

5 . The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage regulation signal increases in a case that the first compensation signal is greater than the first voltage signal; the voltage regulation signal decreases in a case that the first compensation signal is less than the first voltage signal.

6 . The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage converter comprises:
a first voltage converter configured to perform voltage conversion on the first compensation signal according to the phase number of the power conversion circuits that are turned on to obtain a second voltage signal; a second voltage converter connected with the first voltage converter, wherein the second voltage converter is configured to perform voltage conversion on the second voltage signal according to the predetermined phase number of the power conversion circuits of the multiphase power supply to obtain the first node signal.

7 . The control circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the second voltage converter comprises: a first operational amplifier, a second resistor, and a third resistor,
wherein the second resistor and the third resistor are connected in series between an output terminal of the first operational amplifier and a reference ground; a first input terminal of the first operational amplifier receives the second voltage signal, a second input terminal of the first operational amplifier is connected with an intermediate node between the second resistor and the third resistor, and the output terminal of the first operational amplifier outputs the first node signal, the second resistor and the third resistor have a voltage division ratio of the first node signal equal to a reciprocal of the predetermined phase number of the power conversion circuits of the multiphase power supply.

8 . The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage regulation unit comprises:
a comparator having a first input terminal for receiving the first compensation signal, a second input terminal for receiving the first voltage signal, and an output terminal for outputting a regulation signal; a voltage regulation sub-unit receiving the regulation signal, wherein the voltage regulation sub-unit is configured to obtain the voltage regulation signal according to the regulation signal.

9 . The control circuit according to claim 8 , wherein the voltage regulation sub-unit comprises:
a current generation unit configured to generate a first current signal according to the regulation signal; a first resistor having a first terminal connected with the current generation unit and a second terminal connected with the output terminal of the voltage converter, wherein the first resistor is configured to receive the first current signal to obtain the voltage regulation signal at two terminals thereof, wherein the voltage regulation sub-unit outputs the current reference signal at the first terminal of the first resistor.

10 . The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the controller comprises:
N-phase control units corresponding to the N-phase power conversion circuits respectively, wherein each controller of the N-phase control units is configure to generate a peak current reference signal and/or a valley current reference signal for corresponding each of the power conversion circuits according to the current reference signal, and to obtain the control signal according to the peak current reference signal and/or the valley current reference signal of corresponding one of the N-phase power conversion circuits and an inductive current sampling signal of corresponding one of the N-phase power conversion circuits, so as to trigger and achieve on-off control of a switching device in corresponding one of the N-phase power conversion circuits.

11 . The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the controller comprises:
a current reference processing unit configured to generate a peak current reference signal and/or a valley current reference signal according to the current reference signal; N-phase control units corresponding to the N-phase power conversion circuits respectively, wherein each controller of the N-phase control units is configured to obtain the control signal according to the peak current reference signal and/or the valley current reference signal and an inductive current sampling signal of corresponding one of the N-phase power conversion circuits, so as to trigger and achieve on-off control of a switching device in corresponding one of the N-phase power conversion circuits.

12 . A multiphase power supply, comprising:
N-phase power conversion circuits coupled in parallel; and the contr

Assignees

• Joulwatt Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Cheng Yang
• Wang siyun

Classifications

• H02M3/157

  with digital control · CPC title

• H02M1/14

  Arrangements for reducing ripples from DC input or output · CPC title

• H02M1/088

  for the simultaneous control of series or parallel connected semiconductor devices · CPC title

• H02M1/0025

  Arrangements for modifying reference values, feedback values or error values in the control loop of a converter · CPC title

• H02M3/1584 Primary

  with a plurality of power processing stages connected in parallel · CPC title