JAJSIO4A February 2020 – September 2020 TPS546A24A
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The voltage error integrator regulates the output voltage by adjusting the current control voltage, VSHARE, similar to any current mode control architecture. A transconductance amplifier compares the sense feedback voltage to a programmed reference voltage to set the current control voltage VSHARE to maintain the desired output voltage. While a regulated current source feeding an output capacitance provides a natural, stable integrator, mid-band gain is often desired to improve the loop bandwidth and transient response.
With a transconductance set by the current sense gain, the voltage loop cross-over occurs when the full loop gain equal 1 according to Equation 6.
To prevent the current integration loop bandwdith from negatively impacting the phase margin of the voltage loop, the voltage loop should have a target bandwidth of Fcoi / 2.5. With a current mode loop of fSW/4, the voltage loop mid-band gain should be Equation 7:
An integrator pole is necessary to maintain accurate DC regulation, and the zero-frequency set by RVV × CZV should be set below the lowest cross-over frequency with the largest output capacitor intended to be supported at the output, but not more than 1/2 the target voltage loop crossover frequency fcov.
A high frequency noise pole, intended to keep switching noise out of the current loop should also be employed, with a high-frequency pole set by RVV × CPV should be set between fsw/4 and fsw.
For pin programmed options of compensation components, see Table 7-9.
For PMBus programming of compensation values, see Section 7.6.74.