SLVSGL4 September 2023 TPS1HTC30-Q1
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A high-accuracy current limit allows higher reliability, which protects the power supply during short circuit or power up. Also, a high-accuracy current limit can save system costs by reducing PCB traces, connector size, and the capacity of the preceding power stage.
Current limit offers protection from over-stressing to the load and integrated power FET. Current limit holds the current at the set value, and pulls up the SNS pin to VSNSFH and asserts the FAULT pin as diagnostic reports. The three current-limit thresholds are:
Additionally this value can be dynamically changed by changing the resistance on the ILIM pin. This can be seen in the Applications Section.
Both the internal current limit (Ilim,nom) and external programmable current limit are always active when VS is powered and EN is high. The lower value one (of ILIM and the external programmable current limit) is applied as the actual current limit. The typical deglitch time for the current limit to assert is 2.5 µs.
Note that if a GND network is used (which leads to the level shift between the device GND and board GND), the ILIM pin must be connected with device GND. Calculate RLIM with Equation 2.
For better protection from a hard short-to-GND condition (when VS and input are high and a short to GND happens suddenly), an open-loop fast-response behavior is set to turn off the channel, before the current-limit closed loop is set up. With this fast response, the device can achieve better inrush-suppression performance.
For more information about the current limiting feature, see Section 8.3.5.1.