Follow the steps below precisely to quickly
evaluate the TPS38700-Q1. In this quick start, we will be looking at Enable 1 and Enable 2
signals after the ACT pin is triggered.
- Make the connections described in Section 4.1. Skip the GUI
installation if the TPS38700Q1EVM GUI is already installed.
- Power the EVM by turning on the power
supply. Note that the voltage and current at the supply are 3.3 V and 10 mA.
- Once the TI's USB Interface Adapter is
connected to EVM and the laptop, launch the evaluation software Fusion Digital Power
Designer.
- Click on I2C GUI in the bottom right.
- Click on
Change Scan Mode to select TPS38700x and then click OK.
- Scan for the
TPS38700Q1EVM by clicking on "Scan for TPS38700x" on top left of the window.
- Once the EVM is discovered, select
Click to Configure (text in blue).
- Go to the
Sequence Config tab. In the Pins mapping section, change the pin 19's (EN1) Power Up
sequence from 1st to 4th sequence. Now, the Enable 1 signal is part of the 4th power-up
sequence. Hence, delaying the signal by about 2 ms from Enable 2 signal (which is still
part of the first power-up sequence).
- Change the trigger in the oscilloscope
from channel 1 to channel 3 to get the trigger from ACT pin.
- Set the Function Generator to create a
3.3 V pulse waveform. Turn-on the output from the Function Generator connected to the
ACT pin to trigger the power-up sequence.
- The output at the oscilloscope should
look like the Figure 4-21 where green waveform is the pulse to the ACT pin (TP6), red waveform is Enable 2
signal and blue waveform is the Enable 1 Signal.