NCP1282
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16
V
CS K IP(val ley)
once the CS K I P voltage reaches the turn on
thres h old of the latch. The external latch is cleared by
bringing the UVOV voltage below V
UV
and disablin g V
REF
.
V
REF
C
REF
CSKIP
C
CSKIP
OUTY
V
CC
INA
OE
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Figure 38. External Latch Implemented using
ON Semiconductor’s MiniGatet Buffer
The latch in Figure 38 consists of a TTL le vel tri--state
output buffer from ON Semiconductor’s MiniGatet
family. The enable (OE) and output (OUTY) terminals are
connected to CSKIP and the V
CC
and INA pins are
connected to V
REF
. The output of the buffer is in a high
impedance m ode when OE is low. Once a continuous
current limit condition is detected, the CSKIP timer is
enabl ed and CSKIP begins charging. Once the voltage on
CSKIP reaches the enable threshold of the buffer, the
output of the buffer is pulled to V
REF
, latching the CSKIP
timer. The OE threshold of the buffer is typically 1.5 V.
V
REF
C
REF
C
CSKIP
CSKIP
BSS84L
M2
24.9 kΩ
2N7002L
R
pull--up
M1
Figure 39. External Latch Implemented using
Discrete N and P--Channel MOSFETs
A latch implemented using discrete N and P--channel
MOSFETs is shown in Figure 39. The latch is enabled once
the CSKIP voltage reaches the threshold of M1. Once M1
turns on, it pulls low the gate of M2. CSKIP is then pulled
to V
REF
by M2. It is important to size R
pull--up
correctly. If
R
pull--up
is too big, it will not keep M2 off while V
REF
charges. This will cause the controller to latch during initial
power--up. In this particular implementation the turn on
threshold of M1 is 2 V and R
pull--up
is sized to 24.9 k.
Leading Edge Blanking
The current sense signal is prone to lea ding edge spike s
caused by the power switch transitions. The current signal
is usually filtered using an RC low–pass filter to avoid
premature triggering of the current limit circuit. However,
the low pass filter will inevitably change the shape of the
current pulse and also a dd cost and compl exity. T he
NCP1282 uses LEB circuitry that blocks out the first 70 ns
(typ) of each current pulse. This removes the leading edge
spikes without altering the current waveform. The blanking
period is disabled during soft--start as the blanking period
may be longer than t he startup duty cycle. It is al so disabled
if the out put of the Saturation Comparator is l ow, indicating
that the output is not yet in regulation. This occurs during
power up or during an out put overload c ondition.
Supply Voltage and Startup Circuit
The NCP1282 internal startup regulator eliminates the
need for external startup components. In addition, this
regula tor increases the efficiency of the supply as it uses no
power when in the normal mode of operation, but instead
uses power supplied by an auxiliary winding. The
NCP1282 incorporates an optimized startup circuit that
reduce s the requirement of the supply capacitor,
particularly important in size constrained a pplications.
The minimum supply voltage of the NCP1282 is
optimized for driving high voltage MOSFETs. It is not
uncommon for high voltage MOSFETs to have a gate
plateau voltage of 6 V. In addition, high voltage
applications may require a high side drive circuit with a
voltage drop of up to two diodes. If the minimum supply
voltage is too low, there may not be enough voltage for
driving the external MOSFETs causing the system to
malfunction. The NCP1282 elimin ates this problem with a
minimum supply voltage of 8.5 V.
The startup regulator consists of a constant current
source that supplies current from the input line voltage
(V
in
) to the supply capacitor on the V
AUX
pin (C
AUX
). The
startup current (I
start
) is typically 10 mA.
Once C
AUX
is charged to 11.0 V (V
AUX(on)
), the startup
regulator is disabled and the outputs are enabled if there are
no UV, OV, CSKIP or thermal shutdown faults. The startup
regulator remains disabled until the lower voltage
threshold (V
AUX(off1)
) of 9.5 V is reached. Once reached,
the startup circ uit is enabled and a soft--stop e vent is
initiated. If the bias current requirement out of C
AUX
is
greater than the startup current, V
AUX
will discharge until
reaching the lower voltage threshold (V
AUX(off2)
)of8.5V.
Upon reaching V
AUX(off2)
, the outputs are disabled. Once
the outputs are disabled, the bias current of the IC is
reduce d, allowing V
AUX
to charge back up. This mode of
operation allows a dramatic reduction in the size of C
AUX
as not all the power required for startup needs to be stored
by C
AUX
. This mode of operation is known as Dynamic
Self Supply (DSS). Figure 40 shows the rela tionship
between V
AUX(on)
,V
AUX(off1)
,V
AUX(off2)
and UV. As
shown in Figure 40, the outputs are not enabled until the
UV fault is removed and V
AUX
reaches V
AUX(on)
.