Patent ID: 11942859
Assignee: PSEMI CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A power converter having an input port and an output port, the power converter comprising:
a controller to generate one or more control signals based, at least in part, on signals within the power converter;
at least one switch to alternately transition between a conducting and a non-conducting state based, at least in part, on a gate-drive voltage to be applied to a gate of the at least one switch; and
a level shifter comprising a memory, the level shifter to facilitate the transition of the at least one switch between the conducting and the non-conducting state based, at least in part, on a particular logical value to be selected from logical values to be stored in the memory of the level shifter, the particular logical value to be selected to generate the gate-drive voltage,
wherein the level shifter comprises a first buffer on a first path and a second buffer on a second path and a multiplexer coupled to the first buffer on the first path and the second buffers on the second path, wherein at least one of the first and the second buffers buffer the particular logical value,
wherein the memory to comprise a first transistor and at least a second transistor to be cross-coupled with the first transistor, the first transistor to store a first logical value of the logical values and the second transistor to store a second logical value of the logical values, and wherein, during operation of the power converter, a change in the first logical value to facilitate a change in the second logical value.