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Re: buck converter for negative voltages

From Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: buck converter for negative voltages
Date 2017-02-01 14:27 -0800
Organization Rowland Institute
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Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote...
>
> Den onsdag den 1. februar 2017 kl. skrev Winfield Hill:
>> John Larkin wrote...
>>>
>>> Winfield Hill wrote:
>>>
>>>> Suggestions for buck converter ICs for negative voltages? 
>>>> Controller ICs (external MOSFETs) would be nice.
>>>
>>> I can't recall ever seeing a real negative-to-negative
>>> switcher!  People sometimes hack a positive controller.
>>
>>  LTC also suggests the positive boost-converter hack,
>>  in design note DN1022.
>
> if you can figure out a way to flip the feedback or live with the
> output being relative to input, wouldn't any synchronous buck work? 

 The feedback is inverted in a *boost* converter, one
 just needs to translate it down to the negative rail.


-- 
 Thanks,
    - Win

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buck converter for negative voltages Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-01 12:57 -0800
  Re: buck converter for negative voltages John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-01 13:35 -0800
    Re: buck converter for negative voltages Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-01 14:02 -0800
      Re: buck converter for negative voltages Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-02-01 14:16 -0800
        Re: buck converter for negative voltages Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-01 14:27 -0800
          Re: buck converter for negative voltages Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-02-01 14:39 -0800
            Re: buck converter for negative voltages Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-02 11:33 -0800
              Re: buck converter for negative voltages Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2017-02-03 09:44 -0500
      Re: buck converter for negative voltages John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-01 14:38 -0800
        Re: buck converter for negative voltages Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-02-01 14:43 -0800
          Re: buck converter for negative voltages John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-01 15:35 -0800
            Re: buck converter for negative voltages Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-01 18:25 -0800
  Re: buck converter for negative voltages Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-01 13:36 -0800
  Re: buck converter for negative voltages Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2017-02-01 15:04 -0800

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