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

Claim 10:
11. A power delivery system comprising:
an inductive power converter comprising:
a shared connection to a shared voltage from a battery;
multiple inductive phases, each of the multiple inductive phases configured to generate a respective voltage from the shared voltage;
multiple regulated voltage connections; and
one or more switches configured and arranged to selectively assign at least one of the multiple inductive phases to a regulated voltage connection selected from the multiple regulated voltage connections; and

a control circuit communicatively coupled to the one or more switches and configured to:
generate 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
apply 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 is determined by a maximum converter efficiency achievable by the inductive power converter while meeting power requirements of the downstream component.