JAJSNJ1H May 2013 – December 2021 TPS65310A-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA
The gate drivers of the BUCK1 controller, BUCK2 and BUCK3 converters and the BOOST converter are supplied from an internal linear regulator. The internal linear regulator output (5.8-V typical) is available at the VREG pin and must be decoupled using a typical 2.2-μF ceramic capacitor. This pin has an internal current-limit protection and must not be used to power any other circuits.
The VREG linear regulator is powered from VINPROT by default when the EXTSUP voltage is lower than 4.6 V (typical).
If the VINPROT is expected to go to high levels, there can be excessive power dissipation in this regulator when using large external MOSFETs. In this case, it is advantageous to power this regulator from the EXTSUP pin, which can be connected to a supply lower than VINPROT but high enough to provide the gate drive. When EXTSUP is connected to a voltage greater than 4.6 V, the linear regulator automatically switches to EXTSUP as its input to provide this advantage. This automatic switch-over to EXTSUP can only happen once the TPS65310A-Q1 device reaches ACTIVE mode. Efficiency improvements are possible when one of the switching regulator rails from the TPS65310A-Q1 device, or any other voltage available in the system is used to power EXTSUP. The maximum voltage that must be applied to EXTSUP is 12 V.