JAJSIO5B July 2019 – February 2020 LMR36506-Q1
ADVANCE INFORMATION for pre-production products; subject to change without notice.
As with any power conversion device, the LMR36506-Q1 dissipates internal power while operating. The effect of this power dissipation is to raise the internal temperature of the converter above ambient. The internal die temperature (TJ) is a function of the ambient temperature, the power loss and the effective thermal resistance, RθJA, of the device and PCB combination. The maximum junction temperature for the LMR36506-Q1 must be limited to 150°C. This establishes a limit on the maximum device power dissipation and, therefore, the load current. Equation 9 shows the relationships between the important parameters. It is easy to see that larger ambient temperatures (TA) and larger values of RθJA reduce the maximum available output current. The converter efficiency can be estimated by using the curves provided in this data sheet. If the desired operating conditions cannot be found in one of the curves, interpolation can be used to estimate the efficiency. Alternatively, the EVM can be adjusted to match the desired application requirements and the efficiency can be measured directly. The correct value of RθJA is more difficult to estimate. As stated in the Semiconductor and IC Package Thermal Metrics Application Report, the values given in the Thermal Information section are not valid for design purposes and must not be used to estimate the thermal performance of the application. The values reported in that table were measured under a specific set of conditions that are rarely obtained in an actual application.
where
The effective RθJA is a critical parameter and depends on many factors such as the following:
Due to the ultra-miniature size of the VQFN-HR (RPE) package, a DAP is not available. This means that this package exhibits a somewhat greater RθJA.
Use the following resources as guides to optimal thermal PCB design and estimating RθJA for a given application environment: