SLUSCU6C August 2017 – January 2020 UCC256301
PRODUCTION DATA.
The secondary regulator circuit and optocoupler feedback circuit all add directly to the no load power consumed by the system. To achieve very low no load power it is necessary to drive the optocoupler in a low current mode.
As shown in Figure 31, a constant current source IFB is generated out of VCC voltage and connected to FB pin. A resistor RFB is also connected to this current source with a PMOS in series. During normal operation, the PMOS is always on. The PMOS limits the maximum voltage on the FBreplica.
From this equation, when Iopto increases, IRFB will decrease, making FBreplica decrease. In this way, the control effort is inverted. This circuit can also limit the optocoupler maximum current to be IFB. A conventional way to bias the optocoupler is using a pull up resistor on the collector of the optocoupler output. To reduce the power consumption, the pull up resistor needs to be big, which will limit the loop bandwidth. For the bias current method used in UCC25630, the optocoupler current is limited and there is no loop bandwidth issue.