JAJSCQ0B December 2016 – March 2018 LMR23625-Q1
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The LMR23625-Q1 is internally compensated as shown in Functional Block Diagram. The internal compensation is designed such that the loop response is stable over the entire operating frequency and output voltage range. Depending on the output voltage, the compensation loop phase margin can be low with all ceramic capacitors. An external feed-forward capacitor CFF is recommended to be placed in parallel with the top resistor divider RFBT for optimum transient performance.
The feed-forward capacitor CFF in parallel with RFBT places an additional zero before the crossover frequency of the control loop to boost phase margin. The zero frequency can be found by:
An additional pole is also introduced with CFF at the frequency of:
The zero fZ_CFF adds phase boost at the crossover frequency and improves transient response. The pole fP-CFF helps maintaining proper gain margin at frequency beyond the crossover. Table 2 lists the combination of COUT, CFF and RFBT for typical applications, designs with similar COUT but RFBT other than recommended value, adjust CFF such that (CFF × RFBT) is unchanged, and adjust RFBB such that (RFBT / RFBB) is unchanged.
Designs with different combinations of output capacitors need different CFF. Different types of capacitors have different equivalent series resistance (ESR). Ceramic capacitors have the smallest ESR and need the most CFF. Electrolytic capacitors have much larger ESR and the ESR zero frequency would be low enough to boost the phase up around the crossover frequency. Designs using mostly electrolytic capacitors at the output may not need any CFF. See Equation 8
The CFF creates a time constant with RFBT that couples in the attenuate output voltage ripple to the FB node. If the CFF value is too large, it can couple too much ripple to the FB and affect VOUT regulation. Therefore, calculate CFF based on output capacitors used in the system. At cold temperatures, the value of CFF might change based on the tolerance of the chosen component. This may reduce its impedance and ease noise coupling on the FB node. To avoid this, more capacitance can be added to the output or the value of CFF can be reduced.