NCP1028
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Designing the Auxiliary Winding
A NCP1028 internal arrangement clamps the voltage
applied on the V
CC
pin. It uses an active shunt circuitry as
shown on Figure 33. Care must be taken to avoid injecting
too much current when the clamp is activated. The
insertion of a resistor (R
limit
) between the auxiliary dc level
and the V
CC
pin is thus mandatory not to damage the
internal 8.7 V zener diode during an overshoot for instance
(absolute maximum current is 15 mA. Please note that
there cannot be bad interaction between the clamping
voltage of the internal zener and VCC
ON
since this
clamping voltage is actually built on top of VCC
ON
with a
fixed amount of offset (200 mV typical). R
limit
should be
carefully selected to avoid disturbing the V
CC
in low / light
load conditions. The below lines detail how to evaluate the
R
limit
value.
Self−supplying controllers in extremely low standby
applications often puzzles the designer. Actually, if a
SMPS operated at nominal load can deliver an auxiliary
voltage of an arbitrary 16 V (V
nom
), this voltage can drop
below 10 V (V
stby
) when entering standby. This is because
the recurrence of the switching pulses expands so much that
the low frequency re−fueling rate of the V
CC
capacitor is
not enough to keep a proper auxiliary voltage. Figure 34
portrays a typical scope shot of a SMPS entering deep
standby (output un−loaded). Thus, care must be taken when
calculating R
limit
not to drop too much voltage over it when
entering standby. Otherwise, the converter will enter burst
mode as it will sense an UVLO condition. Based on these
recommendations, we are able to bound
R
limit
between two
equations:
(eq. 3)
V
nom
−V
clamp
I
CCmax
v R
limit
v
V
stby
−V
CCON
ICC1
Where:
V
nom
is the auxiliary voltage at nominal load.
V
stdby
is the auxiliary voltage when standby is entered.
ICC
max
is the maximum current you can inject in the pin
without damaging the controller (15 mA).
ICC1 is the controller consumption. This number slightly
decreases compared to ICC1 from the spec since the part
in standby does almost not switch. It is around 1.0 mA for
the 65 kHz version and 1.4 mA for the 100 kHz one.
VCC
(min)
is the level above which the auxiliary voltage
must be maintained to keep the controller away from the
UVLO trip point. It is good to obtain around 8.0 V in order
to offer an adequate design margin, e.g. to not reactivate the
startup source (which is not a problem in itself if low
standby power does not matter).
←
+
-
+
-
+
V
CCON
= 8.5 V
V
CC(min)
= 7.5 V
Startup
Source
Drain
+
V
clamp
= 8.7 V Typ.
I > 6 mA
Ground
V
CC
+
C
VCC
+
C
AUX
L
aux
R
limit
D1
Figure 33. A more detailed view of the NCP1028 offers better
insight on how to properly wire an auxiliary winding.
Since R
limit
shall not bother the controller in standby, e.g.
keep V
auxiliary
to around 8.0 V (as selected above), we
purposely select a V
nom
well above this value. As explained
before, experience shows that a 40% decrease can be seen
on auxiliary windings from nominal operation down to
standby mode. Let’s select a nominal auxiliary winding of
20 V to offer sufficient margin regarding 8.0 V when in
standby (R
limit
also drops voltage in standby…).
Plugging the values in Equation 3 gives the limits within
which R
limit
shall be selected:
20−8.7
10 m
v R
limit
v
12−8
1m
, that is say : 1.3 kW t R
limit
t 4kW.
to
We purposely limited the injected current to 10 mA in
order to include a safety margin.