SNVSBK5A February 2020 – July 2020 LM76005
PRODUCTION DATA
The LM76005 is internally compensated. Depending on the VOUT and frequency FS, if the output capacitor COUT is dominated by low ESR (ceramic types) capacitors, it can result in low phase margin. To improve the phase boost an external feedforward capacitor, CFF can be added in parallel with RFBT. CFF is chosen such that phase margin is boosted at the crossover frequency without CFF. A simple estimation for the crossover frequency without CFF (fx) is shown in Equation 22, assuming COUT has very small ESR.
Equation 23 for CFF was tested:
If capacitors with high ESR are used, CFF is not required. The CFF capacitor creates a time constant with RFBT that couples the attenuated output voltage ripple to the FB node. Using a value that is too large for CFF can couple too much ripple to FB node and affect output voltage regulation. For capacitors with medium ESR (20 – 200 mΩ), Equation 1 can be used as a quick starting point. For the application in this design example, a 47-pF C0G capacitor is used.