When designing with the LMR66430-EP, slow rise in
output voltage due to recovery from dropout and soft start must be
considered as two separate operating conditions, as shown in Figure 7-10 and Figure 7-11. Soft start is triggered by any of the following conditions:
- Power is applied to the VIN pin of the device, releasing undervoltage lockout.
- EN is used to turn on the device.
- Recovery from shutdown due to overtemperature protection
After soft start is triggered, the IC takes the following actions:
- The reference used by the IC to regulate output voltage is slowly ramped up.
The net result is that output voltage, if previously 0V,
takes tSS to reach 90% of the desired value.
- Operating mode is set to auto mode of operation, activating the diode emulation
mode for the low-side MOSFET. This allows start-up without
pulling the output low. This is true even when there is a
voltage already present at the output during a prebias
start-up.