JAJSBA0Q January 2000 – December 2017 LP2950-N , LP2951-N
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The LP2951-N may be pin-strapped for the nominal fixed output voltage using its internal voltage divider by tying the output and sense pins together, and also tying the FEEDBACK and VTAP pins together. Alternatively, it may be programmed for any output voltage between its 1.235-V reference and its 30-V maximum rating. As seen in Figure 40, an external pair of resistors is required.
The complete equation for the output voltage is
where
The minimum recommended load current of 1 µA forces an upper limit of 1.2 MΩ on the value of R2, if the regulator must work with no load (a condition often found in CMOS in standby). IFB produces a 2% typical error in VOUT which may be eliminated at room temperature by trimming R1. For better accuracy, choosing R2 = 100 kΩ reduces this error to 0.17% while increasing the resistor program current to 12 µA. Because the LP2951-N typically draws 60 µA at no load with pin 2 open-circuited, this is a small price to pay.
Stray capacitance to the LP2951-N FEEDBACK pin can cause instability. This may especially be a problem when using high value external resistors to set the output voltage. Adding a 100-pF capacitor between the OUT pin and the FEEDBACK pin, and increasing the output capacitor to at least 3.3 µF, fixes this problem.