SLVSA94K December 2012 – May 2019 TPS50301-HT
PRODUCTION DATA.
The device has an integrated boot regulator and requires a small ceramic capacitor between the BOOT and PH pins to provide the gate drive voltage for the high-side MOSFET. The boot capacitor is charged when the BOOT pin voltage is less than VIN and BOOT-PH voltage is below regulation. The value of this ceramic capacitor should be 0.1 μF. TI recommends a ceramic capacitor with an X7R- or X5R-grade dielectric with a voltage rating of 10 V or higher because of the stable characteristics over temperature and voltage.
To improve dropout, the device is designed to operate at a high duty cycle as long as the BOOT to PH pin voltage is greater than the BOOT-PH UVLO threshold, which is typically 2.1 V. When the voltage between BOOT and PH drops below the BOOT-PH UVLO threshold, the high-side MOSFET is turned off and the low-side MOSFET is turned on allowing the boot capacitor to be recharged. In applications with split-input voltage rails, high duty cycle operation can be achieved as long as (VIN – PVIN) > 4 V.
Maximum switching frequency is also limited by minimum on-time (specified in Electrical Characteristics) as indicated by Equation 8. Switching frequency will be worst case at no load conditions.