SLVSA38B December 2009 – July 2017 TPS43331-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA.
The TPS43331-Q1 has two separate ground termination (AGND and PGND) pins. The ground signal consists of a plane to minimize impedance. Try to separate the low-signal ground termination from the power-ground signal. The high-power noisy circuits, such as the output, synchronous rectifier, MOSFET driver decoupling capacitor, and the input capacitor, should be connected to the PGND plane. The AGND plane should only make a single point connection to the PGND plane.
The sensitive nodes, such as the feedback resistor divider, oscillator resistor (to set frequency), current sense, and compensation circuitry, should be connected to the AGND plane.
Try and minimize the high current-carrying loops to a minimum by ensuring optimal component placement. Ensure the bypass capacitors are located as close as possible to the respective power and ground pins.
Sensitive circuits, such as sense feedback , frequency setting resistor for the oscillator, current sense and compensation circuits, should not be located near the dv/dt nodes which include the gate drive outputs, phase pins, and boost circuits (bootstrap).
The power dissipation curve (see Figure 42) is based on attachment of the exposed power pad to the printed circuit board with multi layer FR4. The data is based of JEDEC JESD 51-5 standard board with thermal vias and high-K profile. The user must review PowerPAD Thermally Enhanced Package Application Report for recommended method of exposed pad attachment.