Patent ID: 11962180
Assignee: CIRRUS LOGIC INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 22:
23. A method comprising, in a power delivery system having an inductive power converter including a shared connection to a shared voltage from a battery, multiple inductive phases wherein each of the multiple inductive phases are configured to generate a respective voltage from the shared voltage, and multiple regulated voltage connections:
via one or more switches, selectively assigning at least one of the multiple inductive phases to a regulated voltage connection selected from the multiple regulated voltage connections;
generating one or more control signals to the inductive converter to cause the one or more switches to selectively assign the at least one of the multiple inductive phases to the regulated voltage connection selected from the multiple regulated voltage connections; and
applying one or more assignment rules to prioritize downstream components electrically coupled to the multiple regulated voltage connections and maximize an efficiency of the inductive power converter, wherein the one or more assignment rules include a first assignment rule that provides that a number of the multiple inductive phases assigned to a downstream component are determined by a maximum converter efficiency achievable by the inductive power converter while meeting power requirements of the downstream component.