JAJSMM7A August 2022 – September 2023 TPSM8D6B24
PRODUCTION DATA
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 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 crossover occurs when the full loop gain equals 1 according to Equation 6.
To prevent the current integration loop bandwidth from negatively impacting the phase margin of the voltage loop, the voltage loop must have a target bandwidth of fcoi / 2.5. With a current mode loop of fSW / 4, the voltage loop mid-band gain is Equation 7:
An integrator pole is necessary to maintain accurate DC regulation, and the zero-frequency set by RVV × CZV must be set below the lowest crossover 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 must also be employed, with a high-frequency pole set by RVV × CPV must 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 (B1h) USER_DATA_01 (COMPENSATION_CONFIG).