SLUS970C March 2011 – November 2023 TPS40170
PRODUCTION DATA
The TPS40170 use the negative drop across the low-side FET at the end of the "OFF" time to measure the inductor current. Allowing for 30% over the minimum current limit for transient recovery and 20% rise in RDS(on)Q2 for self-heating of the MOSFET, the voltage drop across the low-side FET at current limit is given by Equation 39.
The internal current limit temperature coefficient helps compensate for the MOSFET RDS(on) temperature coefficient, so the current limit programming resistor is selected by Equation 40.
A 1000 pF capacitor is placed in parallel to improve noise immunity of the current limit set-point.