SLUS964D NOVEMBER 2009 – March 2018 TPS40303 , TPS40304 , TPS40305
PRODUCTION DATA.
Programmable OCP level at LDRV is from 6 mV to 150 mV at room temperature with 3000 ppm temperature coefficient to help compensate for changes in the low-side FET channel resistance as temperature increases. With a scale factor of 2, the actual trip point across the low-side FET is in the range of 12 mV to 300 mV. The accuracy of the internal current source is ±5%. Overall offset voltage, including the offset voltage of the internal comparator and the amplifier for scale factor of 2, is limited to ±8 mV.
Maximum clamp voltage at LDRV is 340 mV to avoid turning on the low-side FET during calibration and in a prebiased condition. The maximum clamp voltage is fixed and it does not change with temperature. If the voltage drop across ROCSET reaches the 340-mV maximum clamp voltage during calibration (no ROCSET resistor included), it disables OC protection. Once disabled, there is no low-side or high-side current sensing.
OCP level at HDRV is fixed at 450 mV with 3000-ppm temperature coefficient to help compensate for changes in the high-side FET channel resistance as temperature increases. OCP at HDRV provides pulse-by-pulse current limiting.
OCP sensing at LDRV is a true inductor valley current detection, using sample and hold. Equation 2 can be used to calculate ROCSET:
where
To avoid overcurrent tripping in normal operating load range, calculate ROCSET using the equation above with:
Overcurrent is sensed across both the low-side FET and the high-side FET. If the voltage drop across either FET exceeds the OC threshold, a count increments one count. If no OC is detected on either FET, the fault counter decrements by one count. If three OC pulses are summed, a fault condition is declared which cycles the soft-start function in a hiccup mode. Hiccup mode consists of four dummy soft-start timeouts followed by a real one if overcurrent condition is encountered during normal operation, or five dummy soft-start timeouts followed by a real one if overcurrent condition occurs from the beginning during start. This cycle continues indefinitely until the fault condition is removed.