SLUS829G August 2008 – February 2020 UCC2897A
PRODUCTION DATA.
First, the high-frequency filter capacitor is calculated based on the gate-charge parameters of the external MOSFETs. If the basic switching-frequency ripple is kept below 0.1-V across CHF, this value is approximated with Equation 15.
The energy storage requirements are defined primarily by the startup-time (tSS), turnon (approximately 12.7 V), and turnoff (approximately 8 V) thresholds of the undervoltage-lockout circuit-monitoring of the controller for the VDD pin. In addition, the bias-current consumption of the entire primary-side control circuit (IDD + IEXT) must be known. This power consumption is estimated with Equation 16.
During start-up (tSS), this power is provided by CBIAS while the voltage must remain above the UVLO turn-off threshold. This relationship is expressed with Equation 17.
Rearranging the equation yields the minimum value for CBIAS as shown in Equation 18.
Equation 19 may yield a big capacitance value that is not feasible in some applications, such as an additional energy-storage circuit. A smaller footprint is designed to ease the space demand. Refer to the Application Note for such a design.