JAJSAY1E March 2008 – October 2017 LM2854
PRODUCTION DATA.
The LM2854 employs lossless cycle-by-cycle high-side current limit circuitry to limit the peak current through the high-side FET. The peak current limit threshold, denoted ICL, is nominally set at 6 A internally. When a current greater than ICL is sensed through the PFET, its on-time is immediately terminated and the NFET is activated. The NFET stays on for the entire next four switching cycles (effectively four PFET pulses are skipped). During these skipped pulses, the voltage on the soft-start pin is reduced by discharging the soft-start capacitor by a current sink on the soft-start pin of nominally 6 µA or 14 µA for the 500-kHz or 1-MHz options, respectively. Subsequent overcurrent events will drain more and more charge from the soft-start capacitor, effectively decreasing the reference voltage as the output droops due to the pulse skipping. Reactivation of the soft-start circuitry ensures that when the overcurrent situation is removed, the part will resume normal operation smoothly.