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

Claim 12:
13. 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 an assignment rule that provides that if two or more downstream components are simultaneously active with different voltage requirements and the total requested power of the downstream components is higher than the battery is capable of providing, a first downstream component is deemed to be of lower priority than a second downstream component and assignment of one or more of the multiple inductive phases is prioritized to the second downstream component.