SNVSCM3 June 2024 LM5171
PRODUCTION DATA
Place a ceramic capacitor CSS1 between the SS/DEM1 pin and AGND to program the CH-1 soft-start time. When the EN1 voltage is < 1 V, an internal pulldown FET holds the SS/DEM1 pin at AGND. When the EN1 pin voltage is > 2 V, the SS pulldown FET is released, and CSS is charged up slowly by the internal 70-µA/50-µA current source, as shown in Figure 6-10. The slow ramping SS voltage overrides the ISET1 signal at the non-inverting input voltage of the gm amplifier until it reaches the ISET1 pin voltage. Once the SS/DEM1 voltage exceeds the 1-V offset voltage, the CH-1 PWM duty cycle starts to increase gradually from zero.
When EN1 is pulled below 1 V, CSS1 is discharged by the internal pulldown FET. Once this pulldown FET is turned on, it remains on until the SS/DEM1 voltage falls below 0.3 V, which is the threshold voltage indicating the completion of SS/DEM1 discharge.
Similar behaviors apply to SS/DEM2 for CH-2.
When the LM5171 operates in multiphase parallel operation, the two SS/DEM pins can be tied together.