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PWM Frequency and Adaptive On-Time Control
Soft-Start and Powergood (PGOOD)
T
VOSW +
2
C
VOSW
V
VOSW
I
VOSWOCP
) 80 ms
(2)
T
VLDO +
C
VLDO
V
VLDO
I
VLDOOCL
(3)
Enable and Discharge
SLVS735A – FEBRUARY 2007 – REVISED APRIL 2007
TPS51511 employs an adaptive on-time control scheme, and does not have a dedicated oscillator on board.
However, the device runs with a fixed 350kHz pseudo-constant frequency by feed-forwarding the input and
output voltage into the on-time one-shot timer. The on-time is inversely proportional to the input voltage and
proportional to the output voltage so that the duty-cycle ratio is kept the same as VOUT/VIN in the same cycle
time. Although the TPS51511 does not have a pin connected to VIN, the input voltage is monitored at the LL pin
during the ON state. This reduces the pin count in order to make the part compact without sacrificing its
performance. In order to secure minimum ON time during startup, the feed-forward feature from the output
voltage is enabled after the output voltage becomes 750 mV or higher.
The soft-start function of the switcher is achieved by ramping up the reference voltage and a two-stage current
clamp. At the starting point, the reference voltage is set to 650 mV (87% of its target value), and the overcurrent
threshold is set to half of the nominal value. When the UVP comparator detects an VOSW voltage greater than
80% of the target, the reference begins to ramp up and reaches 750 mV after 85
s. 45 s after the voltage
becomes good, the power-good comparator releases the overcurrent threshold to the nominal value. TPS51511
turns off the power-good open-drain MOSFET when VOSW reaches the good state.
The soft-start function of the LDO is achieved by clamping the current during startup. The threshold of the
current limit is set to 2.5 A (typical). TPS51511 has an independent window comparator for each output, but the
PGOOD signal indicates only the status of VOSW. If a separate powergood signal is needed for the LDO, see
The soft-start durations, TVOSW, TVLDO are functions of output capacitances.
Where, IVOSWOCP is the current limit value for the VOSW switcher calculated by Equation 5. Where, IVLDOOCL = 2.5 A (typical).
In both equations, no load current during startup is assumed. Note that both the switcher and the LDO do not
start up to target voltage with full load conditions.
Both the switcher and LDO can be enabled by bringing the voltage on the ENSW and ENLDO pins above 2.2 V,
and disabled by pulling the voltage of ENSW and ENLDO down to 0.3 V. Both the switcher and LDO have
output-discharge feature. The output is discharged through an internal MOSFET when the channel is disabled.
Discharge continues until the output voltage is discharged below 0.3 V. In UVP or OVP conditions of the
switching power supply, the device is latched off and the discharge is enabled until the output voltage drops
below 0.3 V.
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