SLUSBW3D March 2014 – December 2017 UCC28630 , UCC28631 , UCC28632 , UCC28633 , UCC28634
PRODUCTION DATA.
To help ease EMI compliance of the system, the device dithers the switching frequency over time. This dithering of frequency is active only above the light-load region threshold (PLL(%)) point on the modulator curve. In the light load regions, frequency dither is disabled. The frequency dither follows a repeating pattern, in the sequence:
{(fNOM), (fNOM + 6.7%), (fNOM + 6.7%), fNOM), (fNOM – 6.7%), (fNOM – 6.7%), (fNOM), . . . .}
The controller dwells at each frequency for 1 ms. The pattern repeats every 6 ms, as shown graphically in Figure 43.
NOTE
The device always dithers frequency between 6.7% and –6.7% at every operating point in the modulator. The dither frequency delta is not an absolute delta, it scales with actual operating frequency, depending on the exact operating point value.
In order to balance the power flow and reduce and output ripple as a consequence of frequency dithering, the device automatically adjusts peak-current demand in inverse-proportion to the square-root of the frequency dither deviation. Thus, since the power flow (in DCM) is given by (½ × L × I2 × fSW), this balances the power flow, and cancels the output ripple as a consequence of frequency dithering.