JAJSAY1E March 2008 – October 2017 LM2854
PRODUCTION DATA.
When the LM2854 is enabled, the output voltage will ramp up linearly in the time dictated by the relationship shown in Equation 4.
where VREF is the internal reference voltage (nominally 0.8V), ISS is the soft-start charging current (nominally 2 µA) and CSS is the external soft-start capacitance. Rearranging this equation allows for the necessary soft-start capacitor for a given start-up time to be calculated as in Equation 5.
Thus, the required soft start capacitor per unit output voltage start-up time is given in Equation 6.
For example, a 10 nF soft-start capacitor will yield a 4 ms soft-start time.