JAJSU64A April 2024 – August 2024 TPS7H4011-SP
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The TPS7H4011 can be paralleled in a primary-secondary mode to achieve increased output current as described in Section 8.3.7.3. The current through each of the n paralleled devices will nominally be 1/n. The TPS7H4011 is designed to inherently support paralleling up to four devices with out of phase operation to reduce ripple.
In parallel mode, the current mismatch due to error amplifier gmEA differences are minimized since the output of the error amplifiers are all electrically connected by connection of the COMP pins. Therefore, the current mismatch is dominated by the mismatch of the individual power stage gmPS values. This parameter is specified in the Electrical Characteristics table for an IOUT of 12A and an IOUT of 9A across temperature. If it is assumed the n parallel devices will operate at a similar temperature, the gmPS mismatch can be considered across each individual temperature band, thus minimizing worst case error estimates.
There are two approaches to compensate the TPS7H4011 when in parallel mode. The first is to compensate the primary device and connect all COMP pins together. To do this, follow Section 9.2.2.10 but be sure to use the total output capacitance, COUT, and total output current, IOUT, of the complete system (not just the output current or output capacitance of a single device). Adjust the RCOMP calculation used in step #3 to Equation 28, where n is the number of paralleled devices.
Alternatively, each device may be individually compensated following the steps described in Section 9.2.2.10. In this case, the output capacitance, COUT, and output current, IOUT, should be the individual COUT and IOUT of each device (in other words, scale the total COUT and IOUT by 1/n). The COMP pins should still be tied together but there is no need to change the equation in step #3. The disadvantage of this approach is increased component count, but the advantage is that it may reduce the noise that gets injected into the COMP pin due to the physically close compensation components near each device.
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