JAJSDP5D February 2016 – March 2018 LM36273
PRODUCTION DATA.
The LM36273 has 4 selectable OCP thresholds (900 mA, 1200 mA, 1500 mA, and 1800 mA). These are programmable in register 0x11 bits[1:0]. The OCP threshold is a cycle-by-cycle current limit and is detected in the internal low-side NFET. Once the threshold is hit the NFET turns off for the remainder of the switching period.
If enough overcurrent threshold events occur, the BL_OCP Flag (register 0x0F, bit[0]) is set. To avoid transient conditions from inadvertently setting the BL_OCP Flag, a pulse density counter monitors OCP threshold events over a 128-µs period. If 8 consecutive 128-µs periods occur where the pulse density count has found 2 or more OCP events, then the BL_OCP Flag is set.
During device start-up and during brightness code changes, there is a 4-ms blank time where BL OCP events are ignored. As a result, if the device starts up in an overcurrent condition there is an approximate 5-ms delay before the BL_OCP Flag is set.