VIPer22A-E, VIPer22ADIP-E, VIPer22AS-E Operations
Doc ID 12050 Rev 2 9/21
The Power MOSFET delivers a sense current I
s
which is proportional to the main current Id.
R2 receives this current and the current coming from the FB pin. The voltage across R2 is
then compared to a fixed reference voltage of about 0.23 V. The MOSFET is switched off
when the following equation is reached:
By extracting I
S
:
Using the current sense ratio of the MOSFET G
ID
:
The current limitation is obtained with the FB pin shorted to ground (V
FB
= 0 V). This leads
to a negative current sourced by this pin, and expressed by:
By reporting this expression in the previous one, it is possible to obtain the drain current
limitation I
Dlim
:
In a real application, the FB pin is driven with an optocoupler as shown on Figure 5. which
acts as a pull up. So, it is not possible to really short this pin to ground and the above drain
current value is not achievable. Nevertheless, the capacitor C is averaging the voltage on
the FB pin, and when the optocoupler is off (start up or short circuit), it can be assumed that
the corresponding voltage is very close to 0 V.
For low drain currents, the formula (1) is valid as long as IFB satisfies I
FB
< I
FBsd
, where
I
FBsd
is an internal threshold of the VIPer22A. If I
FB
exceeds this threshold the device will
stop switching. This is represented on
Figure 12 on page 14, and I
FBsd
value is specified in the
PWM COMPARATOR SECTION. Actually, as soon as the drain current is about 12 % of
Idlim, that is to say 85 mA, the device will enter a burst mode operation by missing switching
cycles. This is especially important when the converter is lightly loaded.
R
2
I
S
I
FB
+()⋅ 0.23V=
I
S
0.23V
R
2
--------------- - I
FB
–=
I
D
G
ID
I
S
⋅ G
ID
0.23V
R
2
--------------- - I
FB
–
⎝⎠
⎛⎞
⋅==
I
FB
0.23V
R
1
--------------- -–=
I
Dlim
G
ID
0.23V
1
R
2
------ -
1
R
1
------ -+
⎝⎠
⎛⎞
⋅⋅=