SLVSC86A January 2014 – March 2014 UCD9244-EP
PRODUCTION DATA.
Terminals CS1A, CS2A, CS3A, and CS4A are used to measure either output current or inductor current in each of the controlled power stages. PMBus commands IOUT_CAL_GAIN and IOUT_CAL_OFFSET are used to calibrate each measurement. See the UCD92xx PMBus Command Reference (SLUU337) for specifics on configuring this voltage to current conversion.
When the measured current is outside the range of either the over-current or under-current fault threshold, a current limit fault is declared and the UCD9244 performs the PMBus configured fault recovery. ADC current measurements are digitally averaged before they are compared against the over-current and under-current warning and fault thresholds. The output current is measured at a rate of one output rail per tIout microseconds. The current measurements are then passed through a digital smoothing filter to reduce noise on the signal and prevent false errors. The output of the smoothing filter asymptotically approaches the input value with a time constant that is approximately 3.5 times the sampling interval.
NUMBER OF OUTPUT RAILS | OUTPUT CURRENT SAMPLING INTERVALS (µs) | FILTER TIME CONSTANT τ (ms) |
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1 | 200 | 0.7 |
2 | 400 | 1.4 |
3 | 600 | 2.1 |
4 | 800 | 2.8 |
This smoothed current measurement is used for output current fault detection; see the Over-Current Detection section. The smoothed current measurement is also reported in response to a PMBus request for a current reading.