Patent 7932708 was granted and assigned to Nuvoton on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A power converter is provided. The power converter comprises an output pin having an address setting function, for flexibly setting a system management bus (SMBus) slave address. As such, the present invention is adapted for saving the amount of the strapping pins employed in the power converter, and thus saving the IC packaging cost.