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20160033611 | Systems And Methods Of Current Sense Calibration For Voltage Regulator Circuits - Systems and methods are disclosed that may be employed to calibrate current sense circuitry of CPU core voltage (Vcore) DC/DC voltage regulation circuitry by coupling an individual Vcore phase of a VR as a current source to a VSA phase of the same VR so that the Vcore phase acts as a current sink for the coupled Vcore phase during calibration of the current sense circuitry of the individual Vcore phase. | 02-04-2016 |