SLVSCQ9E November 2014 – March 2022 TPS65400
PRODUCTION DATA
Figure 8-3 shows the startup timing of the TPS65400. Upon power-up or the rising edge of CE, the internal power rails VDDA, VDDG, and VDDD startup during the time labeled tstart. Following tstart, a delay of t1 follows (which is defined by the user through the timing of RST_N). During time tstart and t1, the COMP terminal is internally discharged through a 2-kΩ resistor. At the rising edge of RST_N, the TPS65400 begins two actions:
After tconfig is complete, treset_delay begins. The length of treset_delay is user-configurable through PMBus register DCh. After treset_delay is complete, the TPS65400 begins its startup sequence. The startup sequence is EEPROM-configurable, so any of the four switchers could be the first to startup with a configurable delay. In this particular example, SW1 is configured to startup first after a delay of tSW1_TON_DELAY, which is configurable through PMBus register (DDh) TON_TOFF_DELAY.
To summarize, the length of time from rising edge of CE to soft-start of the first switcher in the sequence is:
The delays, treset_delay and tSW1_ON_DELAY, are both configurable through PMBus. The delay, tconfig, is typically 1.1 ms. The delays, t1 and t2, are determined by the user-defined timing of RST_N and ENSW1. They can both be set to 0 by pulling RST_N high before the end of tstart and ENSW1 high before the end of treset_delay. One simple way to do this would be to tie both signals to VDDD.