Digital controlled power supply

1. A digital controlled power supply comprising:

a digital controller for generating a PWM signal, the PWM signal being used to turn on and off a switching element to obtain an output voltage for a load based on an input voltage,

wherein the digital controller comprises:

an AD converter for receiving an analog output current from the power supply and converting the current into a digital value to thereby produce a digital output current value;

arithmetic processing unit for conducting an arithmetic operation of an on-time period or an off-time period of the PWM signal for each period of a sampling frequency of the AD converter or a frequency of a carrier wave as a criterion to obtain the PWM signal; and

a frequency control unit for variably controlling the frequency of the carrier wave based on the digital output current value produced from the AD converter so that a variation of a ripple current based on a DC bias characteristic of a choke coil in a filter circuit of the power supply is controlled to be within a fixed range.

2. The digital controlled power supply according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency of carrier wave and the sampling frequency synchronize with each other and respectively have periods substantially equal to each other.

3. The digital controlled power supply according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency control unit multiplies the frequency of the carrier wave to produce a plurality of pulses within one sampling frequency.

4. The digital controlled power supply according to claim 1 ,

wherein the choke coil has a DC bias characteristic in which an inductance value thereof lowers as a load current increases.

5. The digital controlled power supply according to claim 1 ,

wherein the digital controller comprises:

the AD converter;

a subtracter;

an arithmetic processing section;

and the frequency control unit which are formed in one semiconductor circuit,

the subtracter subtracts the output voltage value of the AD converter from a reference value beforehand stored in an internal memory,

the arithmetic processing section for generating a compare value by using an output from the subtracter, the compare value being digitally compared with the frequency of carrier wave to obtain a PWM signal,

and the frequency control unit variably controls the carrier and sampling frequencies on the basis of the output current value produced from the AD converter.

6. A digital controlled power supply comprising a digital controller for generating a PWM signal, the PWM signal being used to turn on and off a switching element to obtain an output voltage for a load based on an input voltage,

wherein the digital controller comprises:

an AD converter for receiving an analog output current and an analog output voltage from the power supply and converting the current and the voltage into digital values to thereby produce a digital output current value and a digital output voltage value;

arithmetic processing means for conducting an arithmetic operation of duty of a pulse width for each period of a sampling frequency of the AD converter or a frequency of a carrier wave as a criterion to obtain the PWM signal on the basis of the digital output current value and the digital output voltage value produced from the AD converter; and

frequency control means for variably controlling the frequency of the carrier wave and the sampling frequency on the basis of the digital output current value produced from the AD converter so that a variation of a ripple current based on a DC bias characteristic of a choke coil in a filter circuit of the power supply is controlled to be within a fixed range.

7. The digital controlled power supply according to claim 6 , wherein the power supply selectively conducts, on the basis of the digital output current value produced from the AD converter, a changeover for the pulse width between maximum duty, minimum duty, and duty obtained from the arithmetic processing means and sets the duty as a target of the changeover to the pulse width.

8. A digital controlled power supply, comprising:

a digital controller for generating a PWM signal, the signal being used to turn on and off a switching element to obtain from an input voltage an output voltage for a load; and

an AD converter for receiving an analog output current from the power supply and converting the current into a digital value to thereby produce a digital output current value,

the digital controller comprises arithmetic processing means and frequency control means which are formed in one semiconductor circuit,

wherein the arithmetic processing means conducts an arithmetic operation of a pulse width for each period of a sampling frequency of the AD converter or a frequency of a carrier wave as a criterion to obtain the PWM signal, and

wherein the frequency control means variably controls the frequency of carrier wave and the sampling frequency on the basis of the digital output current value produced from the AD converter so that a variation of a ripple current based on a DC bias characteristic of a choke coil in a filter circuit of the power supply is controlled to be within a fixed range.

9. A digital controlled power supply according to claim 8 , wherein:

the digital controller comprises the AD converter, a subtracter, an arithmetic processing section, and the frequency control means which are formed in one semiconductor circuit;

the subtracter subtracts the output voltage value of the AD converter from a reference value beforehand stored in an internal memory;

the arithmetic processing section for generating a compare value by using an output from the subtracter, the compare value being digitally compared with the frequency of carrier wave to obtain a PWM signal; and

the frequency control means variably controls the carrier and sampling frequencies on the basis of the output current value produced from the AD converter.