JAJSAY1E March 2008 – October 2017 LM2854
PRODUCTION DATA.
The LM2854 implements negative current limit detection circuitry to prevent large negative current in the inductor. When the negative current sensed in the low-side NFET is below approximately –0.4 A, the present switching cycle is immediately terminated and both FETs are turned off. When both FETs are off, the negative inductor current originally flowing in the low-side NFET and into the SW pin commutates to the high-side PFET’s body diode and ramps back to zero. At this point, the SW pin becomes a high impedance node and ringing can be observed on the SW node as the stored energy in the inductor is dissipated while resonating with the parasitic nodal capacitance.