SNVSBI8E august 2020 – august 2023 TPS38-Q1
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Equation 12 illustrates an example of how to adjust the voltage threshold with external resistor dividers. The resistors can be calculated depending on the desired voltage threshold and device part number. TI recommends using the 0.8 V voltage threshold device when using an adjustable voltage variant. This variant bypasses the internal resistor ladder.
For example, consider a 12 V rail being monitored VMON for undervoltage (UV) using channel 1 of the TPS38A010122DSKRQ1 variant. Using Equation 12 and shown in Figure 9-11, R1 is the top resistor of the resistor divider that is between VMON and VSENSE2, R2 is the bottom resistor that is between VSENSE2 and GND, VMON is the voltage rail that is being monitored and VSENSE2 is the input threshold voltage. The monitored UV threshold, denoted as VMON-, where the device will assert a reset signal occurs when VSENSE2 = VIT-(UV) or, for this example, VMON- = 10.8V which is 90% from 12 V. Using Equation 12 and assuming R2 = 10kΩ, R1 can be calculated shown in Equation 13 where IR1 is represented in Equation 14:
Substituting Equation 14 into Equation 13 and solving for R1 in Equation 12, R1 = 125kΩ. The TPS38A010122DSKRQ1 is typically meant to monitor a 0.8 V rail with ±2% voltage threshold hysteresis. For the reset signal to become deasserted, VMON would need to go above VIT- + VHYS. For this example,
VMON = 11.016 V when the reset signal becomes deasserted.
There are inaccuracies that must be taken into consideration while adjusting voltage thresholds. Aside from the tolerance of the resistor divider, there is an internal resistance of the SENSE pin that may affect the accuracy of the resistor divider. Although expected to be very high impedance, users are recommended to calculate the values for the design specifications. The internal SENSE resistance RSENSE can be calculated by the SENSE voltage VSENSE divided by the SENSE current ISENSE as shown in Equation 16. VSENSE can be calculated using Equation 12 depending on the resistor divider and monitored voltage. ISENSE can be calculated using Equation 15.