US 12,081,125 B2
Control circuit of DC/DC converter, power supply circuit, and electronic device
Shun Fukushima, Kyoto (JP); Tomohisa Shinozaki, Kyoto (JP); and Tsutomu Ishino, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to ROHM Co., Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by ROHM Co., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Jun. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/805,503.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-095453 (JP), filed on Jun. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0393593 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H02M 3/158 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2007.01); H02M 1/08 (2006.01); H02M 1/32 (2007.01)
CPC H02M 3/158 (2013.01) [H02M 1/0009 (2021.05); H02M 1/0045 (2021.05); H02M 1/08 (2013.01); H02M 1/32 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control circuit of a boost DC/DC converter including a high side transistor and a low side transistor, wherein DC/DC standing for direct-current/direct-current, the control circuit comprising: a pulse modulator including a first error amplifier that amplifies an error between a reference voltage and a feedback signal corresponding to an output voltage of the boost DC/DC converter, the pulse modulator being configured to generate a pulse signal with a pulse modulated according to an output signal of the first error amplifier; a logic circuit that generates a high side control signal and a low side control signal based on the pulse signal; and a load switch drive circuit that drives a load switch that is a PMOS transistor connected between the high side transistor and a load, wherein PMOS standing for p-channel metal-oxide semiconductor, wherein the load switch drive circuit is capable of making a switch between (i) a first mode for fully turning on the PMOS transistor and (ii) a second mode for supplying a drive voltage corresponding to the output signal of the first error amplifier to a gate of the PMOS transistor.