SNVS798P April 2012 – January 2024 LP5907
PRODUCTION DATA
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The LP5907 requires at least a 1µF capacitor at the OUT pin, but there are no strict requirements about the location of the capacitor in regards to the pin. In practical designs the output capacitor can be located up to 10cm away from the LDO. Which means that there is no need to have a special capacitor close to the output pin if there is already respective capacitors in the system (such as a capacitor at the input of supplied device). The remote capacitor feature helps minimize the number of capacitors in the system.
In general, keep the wiring parasitic inductance at a minimum, which means use traces as wide as possible from the LDO output to the capacitors, thus keeping the LDO output trace layer as close to ground layer as possible and avoiding vias on the path. If vias must be used, use as many vias as possible between the connection layers. Keep parasitic wiring inductance less than 35nH. For applications with fast load transients, use an input capacitor equal to or larger to the sum of the capacitance at the output node for best load transient performance.