JAJS194E January 2007 – June 2019 TPS40077
PRODUCTION DATA.
It is good practice to limit the rise time of the output voltage. This helps prevent output overshoot and possible damage to the load. The selection of the soft-start time is arbitrary. It must meet one condition: it should be greater than the time constant of the output filter, LOUT and COUT. This time is given by Equation 36.
The soft-start time must be greater than 0.23 ms. A time of 0.75 ms was chosen. This time also helps limit the initial input current during start-up so that the peak current plus the capacitor start-up current is less than the minimum short-circuit current. The value of CSS can be calculated using Equation 37.
A standard 15-nF MLCC capacitor was chosen. The calculated start time using this capacitor is 0.875 ms.