Patent ID: 7180208

Claim:
A circuit comprising: at least one global supply, to provide input power to the circuit; M voltage sources to provide output power from the circuit, wherein M is an integer number of at least two (2); a switching network having M terminals, wherein each terminal is coupled to one of the M voltage sources; the switching network containing N switch structure circuitries to electrically couple the at least one global supply to the M terminals, wherein N is an integer of at least one (1); each of the N switch structure circuitries containing a first and a second switch to couple the at least one global supply to a first and a second of the M terminals, respectively; and each of the N switch structure circuitries further containing a third switch to electrically connect pairs of the M terminals, wherein the connection of pairs of the terminals is based on a mapping selected from the group consisting of connecting pairs of all of the outputs together, connecting at least two of the outputs together, predeterminately connection at least two of the outputs together, and dynamically determinately connecting at least two of the outputs together.