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Set the gain by adjusting the value of the R
PH
resistors.
The DC gain should be set to the output voltage droop. If the
voltage from CSCOMP to CSREF is less than 100 mV at
ICCMAX then it is recommend increasing the gain of the
CSCOMP amp. This is required to provide a good current
signal to offset voltage ratio for the ILIMIT pin. When no
droop is needed, the gain of the amplifier should be set to
provide ~100 mV across the current limit programming
resistor at full load. The NTC should be placed near the
closest inductor. The output voltage droop should be set with
the droop filter divider.
The pole frequency in the CSCOMP filter should be set
equal to the zero from the output inductor. This allows the
circuit to recover the inductor DCR voltage drop current
signal. C
CS1
and C
CS2
are in parallel to allow for fine tuning
of the time constant using commonly available values. It is
best to fine tune this filter during transient testing.
F
Z
+
DCR @ 25 C
2 @ p @ L
Phase
(eq. 4)
°
Two-Phase Rail Programming the Current Limit
The current limit thresholds are programmed with
a resistor between the ILIMIT and CSCOMP pins.
The ILIMIT pin mirrors the voltage at the CSREF pin and
mirrors the sink current internally to IOUT (reduced by the
IOUT Current Gain) and the current limit comparators.
The 100% current limit trips if the ILIMIT sink current
exceeds 10 mA for 50 ms. The 150% current limit trips with
minimal delay if the ILIMIT sink current exceeds 15 mA. Set
the value of the current limit resistor based on the
CSCOMP-CSREF voltage as shown below.
(eq. 5)
R
LIMIT
+
R
CS2
)
R
CS1
@R
TH
R
CS1
)R
TH
R
PH
@
ǒ
I
OUT
Total
@ DCR
Ǔ
10 m
or
(eq. 6)
R
LIMIT
+
V
CSCOMP*CSREF @ ILIMIT
10 m
Two-Phase Rail Programming DAC Feed-Forward
Filter
The DAC feed-forward implementation is realized by
having a filter on the VSN pin. Programming R
VSN
sets the
gain of the DAC feed-forward and C
VSN
provides the time
constant to cancel the time constant of the system per the
following equations. C
OUT
is the total output capacitance
and R
OUT
is the output impedance of the system.
Figure 10.
12
12
VSN
C67
510 pF
R68
2.1 kW
VSS_SENSE
R
VSN
+ C
OUT
@ R
OUT
@ 453.6 @ 10
6
(eq. 7)
(eq. 8)
C
VSN
+
R
OUT
@ C
OUT
R
VSN
Two-Phase Rail Programming DROOP
The signals CSCOMP and CSREF are differentially
summed with the output voltage feedback to add precision
voltage droop to the output voltage.
Figure 11.
−
+
CSCOMP
CSREF
CSSUM
5
6
7
DROOP
(eq. 9)
Droop + DCR @
R
CS
R
PH
Two-Phase Rail Programming IOUT
The IOUT pin sources a current in proportion to the
ILIMIT sink current. The voltage on the IOUT pin is
monitored by the internal A/D converter and should be
scaled with an external resistor to ground such that a load
equal to ICC_MAX generates a 2 V signal on I
OUT
.
A pull-up resistor from 5 V VCC can be used to offset the
I
OUT
signal positive if needed.
(eq. 10)
R
IOUT
+
2.0 V @ R
LIMIT
10 @
R
CS2
)
R
CS1
@R
TH
R
CS1
)R
TH
R
PH
@
ǒ
I
OUT
ICC_MAX
@ DCR
Ǔ