SLUS907K January 2009 – June 2019 TPS2421-1 , TPS2421-2
PRODUCTION DATA.
Connect a capacitor from CT to GND to set the fault time. The fault timer starts when IVOUT exceeds ISET or when SOA protection mode is active, charging the capacitor with 35 μA from GND towards an upper threshold of 1.4 V. If the capacitor reaches the upper threshold, the internal pass MOSFET is turned off. For the TPS2421-1 device, the MOSFET remains off until EN is cycled. For the TPS2421-2 device, the capacitor discharges at 1.4 μA to 0.16 V and then re-enable the pass MOSFET. If the upper threshold is not crossed, the capacitor discharges at 40 μA to 0.16 V and then to 0 V at 1.4 μA. When the device is disabled, CT is pulled to GND through a 50-kΩ resistor.
The timer period must be chosen long enough to allow the external load capacitance to charge. The nominal (not including component tolerances) fault timer period is selected using Equation 1 where TFAULT is the minimum timer period in seconds and CCT is in Farads.
For the TPS2421-2 device, the second and subsequent retry timer periods are slightly shorter than the first retry period. CT nominal (not including component tolerances) discharge time, tSD from 1.4 V to 0.16 V is shown in Equation 2, where CCT is in Farads and tSD is in seconds.
The nominal ratio of on to off times represents about a 3.7% duty cycle when a hard fault is present on the output.