When designing with the LMR36503E-Q1, slow rise in
output voltage due to recovery from dropout and soft start must be considered as a
two separate operating conditions, as shown in Figure 7-10 and Figure 7-11. Soft start is triggered by any of the following conditions:
- Power is applied to the VIN pin of the device, releasing undervoltage lockout.
- EN is used to turn on the device.
- Recovery from shutdown due to overtemperature protection.
After soft start is triggered, the IC takes the
following actions:
- The reference used by the IC to regulate output voltage is slowly ramped up.
The net result is that output voltage, if previously 0V, takes tSS to
reach 90% of the desired value.
- Operating mode is set to auto mode of operation, activating the diode emulation
mode for the low-side MOSFET. This action allows start-up without pulling the
output low. This fact is true even when there is a voltage already present at
the output during a prebias start-up.