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Page 1: Guidelines for Choosing the Right Buck Regulator Control ... · Guidelines for Choosing the Right Buck Regulator Control Strategy (Part B) Brian Cheng Eric Lee Brian Lynch Robert

Guidelines for Choosing the Right Buck Regulator Control Strategy

(Part B)

Brian Cheng Eric Lee

Brian Lynch Robert Taylor

Page 2: Guidelines for Choosing the Right Buck Regulator Control ... · Guidelines for Choosing the Right Buck Regulator Control Strategy (Part B) Brian Cheng Eric Lee Brian Lynch Robert

2-2 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

How Do You Choose?

•  Part A –  Buck regulator basics –  Fixed frequency control

•  Part B –  Variable frequency control

•  Constant on-time •  Adaptive on-time

–  TI D-CAP™ families •  D-CAP2TM

•  D-CAP3TM

•  D-CAP+TM

–  Conclusions

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2-3 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Variable Frequency Control

Buck Converter

Constant On-­‐Time Co

ntrol

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VFB

VREF

VSW

TON

+

+

Comparator

VFB

RFBT

RFBBVREF

On-Time

GeneratorPower Stage

Reference

Voltage

Comparator

Output

Voltage

Divider

VOUT

Minimum

Off-Timer

One-Shot

On-Timer

+-

Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar 2-4

Constant On-Time Control – Basic Operation

•  Initiate fixed on-time when VFB<VREF

•  On-time can be fixed or changed by input voltage

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VOUTVOUT

VIN

VDD

CT_ON

TON

VC

VC

VFBVREF

VSW

TON

Input Voltage (V)

Switc

hing

Fre

quen

cy (k

Hz)

1800

1600

1400

1200

1000

800

600

400

200

03 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19

Constant On-Time

Adaptive On-Time

2-5 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Adaptive On-Time Control – Frequency

•  Constant on-time has a fixed TON

•  Adaptive on-time adjusts the TON based on the input voltage

α

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2-6 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

COT Control – Transient Performance

•  D-CAP™ mode: direct output capacitor voltage feedback

•  D-CAP™ mode does not have an error amplifier or compensation

4 A Load Step 100 µs/div

53 mV !!

VOUT

190 mV

VOUT

IOUT IOUT 4 A Load Step

100 µs/div

D-CAP™ Mode – Output Cap = 22 µFx3 Voltage Mode – Output Cap = 100 µFx4

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2-7 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

COT Control – Seamless DCM/CCM

No Load à Varying Load à No Load •  The DCM/CCM transition is happening naturally without a mode change

VOUT

Switch Node

ILOAD

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2-8 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

COT Control – High Efficiency @ Light Loads

TPS53219 + CSD86350 •  Efficiency FSW = 500 kHz, 12 V

to 1.1 V

–  > 80% from 0.2 A to 25 A

–  > 55% efficiency in Skip mode at 10 mA

Skip Mode

FCCM Mode

Load Current - A

- Ef

ficie

ncy

- %

0.01 0.1 1 10

100%

90%

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

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+

-

+

-

+

-

+-

+-

VOUT

VOUT

VIN

Ref

Ref

Loop

Comparator

On-Time

Generator

Control

Logic &

Driver

Control

Logic &

Driver

PWM

Comparator

Error Amp

2-9 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

COT Control – External Components

D-CAP™ Mode

Voltage Mode

5 extra external components needed for compensation!

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++–

S

QR

–Q

VOUT

RFBH

RFBL

VOUT

VREF

VOUT

RLOAD

RCO

LX

CO

VIN VIN

RampGenerator

One-ShotOn-Timer

ControlLogic&

Driver

2-10 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP™ Control Architecture

•  Adaptive constant on-time

•  Ramp is generated to improve the jitter performance

TON =VOUTVIN

× K

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2-11 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

COT Control – Ramp Compensation

•  Ramp compensation improves jitter performance by reducing the noise band •  Ramp compensation is built-in to most TI D-CAP controllers

No Ramp Compensation With Ramp Compensation

Noise Margin

T1 : Jitter Due to Noise

VFB

VREF

VSW

Noise Margin

T2 : Jitter Due to Noise

VFB

VREF+VRAMP

VSW

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2-12 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP™ – Ripple Requirements

Without Series Resistor RC With Sufficient RC

ΔVOUT = ΔIL × RCo +ΔIL

8 × fSW × CO = VESR +VC

Feedback signal going down when it should be going up!!

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2-13 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP™ – Stability Measurement

•  Conven<onal open-­‐loop Bode plot measurement is not applied to COT control architecture since output is directly fed back to PWM modulator

•  Closed-­‐loop frequency measurement used to indicate stability issue

•  Due to inherent load feed-­‐forward capability, bandwidth measured from small-­‐signal analyses will not indicate large-­‐signal load transient performance

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2-14 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP2™ Control Architecture

•  Adaptive constant on-time

•  Ripple injection is added to D-CAP2™

•  This allows stability with low output ripple and ceramic output capacitors

TON =VOUTVIN

× K

++–

+–

S

QR

–Q

VOUT VSW

RFBH

RFBL

VOUT

VREF

VOUT

RLOAD

RCORC2

RC1LX

CO

CC1

CC2

VIN VIN

VSW

One-ShotOn-Timer

ControlLogic&

Driver

G

CSP

CSN

VFB

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CCM

DCM

CSP

CSP

CSN

CSN

CSP

CSN

VFB

VREF

+

+

-

-

2-15 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP2™ – Output Accuracy in DCM/CCM

•  Under CCM:

•  Under deep DCM:

•  Offset is not constant in CCM and DCM

VFB

−VREF

≅VRAMP

2

VFB

≅ VREF

VRAMP

2

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2-16 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP2™ – Duty Cycle Dependency

12 V to 0.6 V 12 V to 5 V

•  Fixed RC1CC1 time constant = 30 µs for both outputs

•  Transient performance is very different with different duty cycles

VOUT

Switch Node

IOUT

VOUT

Switch Node

IOUT

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2-17 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP3™ Control Architecture

•  All of the benefits of D-CAP2™

•  Adaptive ripple algorithm changes RC1CC1 time constant with VIN, VOUT and IOUT

•  Sample and hold circuit improves DC accuracy

++–

+–

S

QR

–Q

VOUT VSW

RFBH

VOUT

VREF

VOUT

RLOAD

RCORC2

RC1 LX

CO

CC1

CC2

VIN VIN

One-ShotOn-Timer

ControlLogic

&Driver

G

Adaptive RippleTuning Algorithm

Adaptive RippleGenerator

DC AccuracyImprovement

with S&H

S&H

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2-18 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP3™ – VOUT Accuracy

•  DC accuracy is improved in CCM operation

D-CAP2™

DCM: VFB ≈ Vref CCM: VFB > Vref

Half Effective Ramp Amplitude VFB Vref

DCM: VFB ≈ Vref CCM: VFB ~ VREF

VFB Vref

D-CAP3™ (With Sample-and-Hold Circuits)

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2-19 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP3™ – Adaptive Ripple Injection

•  Time constant for D-CAP2™ = 30 µs

•  Time constant for D-CAP3™ = 120 µs

•  Adaptive ripple algorithm changes RC time constant with VIN, VOUT and IOUT

D-CAP2™ 12 V to 5 V

VOUT

Switch Node

IOUT

VOUT

Switch Node

IOUT

D-CAP3™ 12 V to 5V (With Adaptive Ripple)

CH1 – Brown, 200 mV/Div CH2 – Blue, 10 V/Div CH4 – Green, 5 A/Div

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VOUT

ILOAD COUT

VIN L

L

L

CIN

PHASE 1

PHASE 2

PHASE 3

Phase 1 – Switch Node

Phase 2 – Switch Node

Phase 3 – Switch Node

2-20 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Multiphase DC-DC Converter – Introduction

•  Set of parallel converters

•  Each power-stage is known as a phase

•  The phases operate equally spaced through the period

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2-21 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Multiphase DC-DC Converter – Output Ripple

IL1

IL2

ISUM

PH1

PH2

Example – Two-Phase System

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1

Duty Ratio

Normalized Output Current Ripple 1

0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1

0

Reduced output ripple current Lower output capacitance to maintain same voltage ripple

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2-22 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Multiphase DC-DC Converter – Input Ripple

Reduced switch current Distributed power loss and better thermal performance

IL1

IL2

IHSSW1

IHSSW2

IAVGPH1

IAVGPH2

Lower input RMS current Smaller capacitance, lower ESR power loss, reduced self heating

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Normal Operating Mode Normal Operating Mode

60 amp

24 amp

15 amp

6 amp

2-23 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Multiphase DC-DC Converter – Load Transients

•  During load insertion, all the phases (N) are turned on –  If L is the inductor of each phase, effective inductance is L/N –  Ability to deliver current to the output capacitor is N times higher than single-phase

Improved transient with pulse overlap Lower output capacitance →

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2-24 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Multiphase DC-DC Converter – High Efficiency

High Efficiency Over Wide Load Range

•  Dynamic phase management is integral to achieve high-efficiency over wide loading conditions

–  Higher load current, more phases

–  As load current is reduced, there is a trade-off between switching and conduction losses — dropping phases can optimize the efficiency

–  At extreme light load, the power supply transitions to single-phase discontinuous conduction mode (DCM)

1-ph DCM 1-ph CCM 2-ph 3-ph

Load [A]

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R Q

S Q

+

+Gn

+

+G1

... گ+

+...

SW CLK

PWM1

PWM2

PWM3

ISUM

EA

CSP1

CSN1

CSPn

CSNn

CSP1 CSN1

CSPn CSNn

ISNS1

ISUM

ISNSn

EA

One-Shot

ON-Timer

Phase

Management

Control

Logic

&

Driver

Control

Logic

&

Driver

VOUT

VREF

RCOMP RLOAD

RCSn

RCS1

CO

VFB

VIN

VOUT

VIN

VIN

LX1

LXn

2-25 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP+™ Control Architecture

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LOAD

Vcore

LOAD

Vcore

Isum

DROOP

Isum

DROOP

SW_CLK

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

SW_CLK

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

2-26 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP+™ – Illustrated Transient Waveforms

•  Pseudo constant switching frequency at steady state without internal clocks

•  Variable switching frequency during load transients

•  Dynamic current sharing during load transients

Load Step-Up Load Step-Down

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2-27 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP+™ – Dynamic Phase Shedding

Phase Adding Phase Shedding

Iload (10 A/div)

•  Phase adding/shedding is determined based on the instantaneous ISUM

•  Consists of both current and time hysteresis for phase shedding

SW1 (10 V/div)

SW2 (10 V/div)

SW3 (10 V/div)

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2-28 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP+™ – Loop Gains with Different Phases

Loop Gain is Insensi4ve to the Number of Phases

-­‐40

-­‐20

0

20

40

60

80

1.00E+02 1.00E+03 1.00E+04 1.00E+05 1.00E+06

1Ph, LL @ 10A

2Ph, LL @ 10A

4Ph, LL @ 10A

Frequency (Hz)

Gain (dB)

12Vin to 1.7Vout @ 600kHz, 10A, 150mV Ramp, Comp: 12kΩ/1.2nF/33pFLoop Gain Bode Plots

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

1.00E+02 1.00E+03 1.00E+04 1.00E+05 1.00E+06

1Ph, LL @ 10A

2Ph, LL @ 10A

4Ph, LL @ 10A

Frequency (Hz)

Phase (degree)

12Vin to 1.7Vout @ 600kHz, 10A, 150mV Ramp, Comp: 12kΩ/1.2nF/33pFLoop Gain Bode Plots

TPS53640 with 12 VIN to 1.7 VOUT @ 600 kHz, 10 A load and 1 mΩ loadline

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2-29 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP+™ – High Efficiency

TPS53661 + CSD95372B with 12 VIN to 1.8 VOUT @ 600 kHz, 150 nH

82.0%

83.0%

84.0%

85.0%

86.0%

87.0%

88.0%

89.0%

90.0%

91.0%

92.0%

93.0%

94.0%

95.0%

96.0%

0 50 100 150 200

Eff

icie

nc

y (

%)

Output Current (A)

5-phase

4-phase2-phase

1-phase CCM

1-phase DCM

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2-30 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP+™ – Fast Phase Adding

120 nH @ 500 kHz with 2x470 µF/4.5 mΩ + 8x22 µF/DIMM

LF RR @ 1 kHz, 50% duty cycle (@ sensing point) 14.2 A-59.5 A @ 11.3 A/µs

20 mV/div

5 V/div

5 V/div 4 µs/div 200 µs/div

20 mV/div

5 V/div

5 V/div

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2-31 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP+™ – Dynamic Current Sharing

•  Currents are amplified, filtered and compared with average current

•  At each on-time, the on-time reference (DAC) is “tweaked” by a voltage equivalent to K x (IIN - IAVG)

•  Since filtering is light (5 µs), system response is < 25 µs

•  Current sharing loop analysis paper is available on request

+

+

+

+

+

VBAT

VDAC

IAVG

RT_on

CT_on

K x (I1-IAVG) PWM1

VBAT

VDAC

IAVG

IAVG

RT_on

CT_on

K x (I2-IAVG) PWM2CCSP2

CCSN2 Amp

VBAT

VDAC

IAVG

RT_on

CT_on

K x (I3-IAVG) PWM3CCSP3

CCSN3 Amp

AveragingCircuit

+CCSP1

CCSN1 5 µsFilter

5 µsFilter

5 µsFilter

Amp

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2-32 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

TI D-CAP+™ – Dynamic Current Sharing

(1 A to 100 A @ 600 A/us) (100 A to 1 A @ 600 A/us)

(1 A to 100 A @ 600 A/µs and Load Frequency = Switching Frequency)

2 µs/div

2 µs/div 2 µs/div

2 µs/div

iL1 iL2 iL3 iL4

10 A/div

iL1 iL2 iL3 iL4 10 A/div

iL1 iL2 iL4 10 A/div

iLoad 50 A/div

iL1 iL2 iL4 10 A/div

iLoad 50 A/div

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2-33 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Comparisons of TI D-CAP™ Families

Control Architecture Features

D-CAPTM •  Adaptive on-time control •  Fast load transient response •  Ramp compensation built-in •  High efficiency @ light loads

D-CAP2TM •  Internal ripple compensation for MLCCs

D-CAP3TM •  Sample-and-hold for DC accuracy improvement for CCM/DCM

•  Adaptive ripple compensation D-CAP+TM •  With actual current feedbacks

•  Extension to multi-phase applications •  Dynamic current sharing •  Dynamic phase shedding

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2-34 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

COT Control – Advantages and Challenges

Advantages Disadvantages

Simple design, no compensation required

Variable switching frequency (Solution: D-CAP/D-CAP2/D-CAP3/D-CAP+)

Excellent load transient response

Sensitive to PCB design for jitter (Solution: D-CAP/D-CAP2/D-CAP3/D-CAP+)

Excellent line transient response Minimum ripple requirement or output capacitor type limitations (Solution: D-CAP2/D-CAP3/D-CAP+)

Seamless DCM/CCM transitions for good light-load efficiency

Poor load/line regulation (Solution: D-CAP3/D-CAP+) Not easy for multi-phase configurations (Solution: D-CAP+)

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2-35 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Design Example #3 COT Control – Design Specifications

Design Specifications

Input voltage range 5 V to 18 V

Target output voltage 1.2 V

Output current range 0 A to 6.6 A

Switching frequency 500 kHz

Controller TPS53515 PG

OO

D

PGOOD

Thermal Pad

RF

VO

TRIPPGND

PGND

PGND

PGND

PGND

DNC

GND1

GND2

O

FB

GN

D

MO

DE

VR

EG

VREG

VD

D

NC

VIN

VIN

VIN

VIN

VOUT

EN

EN

VB

ST

N/C

SW

SW

SW

SW

TPS53515

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15

10

11

12

13

14

28

27

26

25

24

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1.3

1.25

1.2

1.15

1.10 2 4 6 8 10 12

Output Current (A)

0 2 4 6 8 10 12Output Current (A)

V OU

T (V)

100

90

80

70

60

Effic

ienc

y (%

)

VIN = 5 VVIN = 12 VVIN = 18 V

fSW = 500 kHzVDD = 5 VVOUT = 1.2 VTA = 25° CLOUT = 1 µHMode = Auto-skip

2-36 Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

Design Example #3 COT Control – Performance Graph

Efficiency

SW (5 V/div)

VOUT (10 mV/div)

SW (6 V/div)

VOUT (50 mV/div)

ILoad (6 A/div)

Transient Response

Switching Operation

Load Regulation

1 µs/div

100 µs/div

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Design Example #4 D-CAP+ Design Specifications

Design Specifications Input voltage range 12 V

Target output voltage 1.6 V-1.9 V

Output current range 0 A to 189 A

Switching frequency 600 kHz

Controller TPS53641

Load

VCORE_OUTPWM1

CSP1

VSP

VSN

PWM2

CSP2

PWM3

CSP3

PWM4

CSP4SDIO

SCLKALERT#To/From

CPU

I2C orPMBus

(Optional)

SLEW-MODE

ENABLE

VR_RDYVR_HOT#

VR_FAULT#

ENABLE

GND

VR_FAULT#

SKIP#-RAMP

V3R3

V1212V

V5

3.3V

PMB_DIO

PMB_CLKPMB_ALERT#

COMP

VREF

B-TMAX

O-USR

ADDR

TSEN

IMONIMON

F-IMAX

ISUM

OCP-I

12V

PS

VIN BOOT BOOT_R

VDD

ENABLE AGND

PGND

VSWPWM

FCCM

5V

IMON REFIN

TAO

12V

PS

VIN BOOT BOOT_R

VDD

ENABLE AGND

PGND

VSWPWM

FCCM

5V

IMON REFIN

TAO

12V

PS

VIN BOOT BOOT_R

VDD

ENABLE AGND

PGND

VSWPWM

FCCM

5V

IMON REFIN

TAO

12V

PS

VIN BOOT BOOT_R

VDD

ENABLE AGND

PGND

VSWPWM

FCCM

5V

IMON REFIN

TAO

5V

TPS5

3641

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Design Example #4 D-CAP+ Performance Graph

Loadline Regulation @ 25C and 105C

12 V to 1.8 V with 4-phase operations @ 600 kHz, 150 nH, and 1 mΩ loadline

PWM1 (2 V/div)

PWM2 (2 V/div)

PWM3 (2 V/div)

PWM4 (2 V/div)

Phase Interleaving and Jitter @ 90 A

1.55

1.6

1.65

1.7

1.75

1.8

1.85

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200

VO

UT (

V)

IOUT (A)

Load Line @ 25C

Load Line @ 105C

Upper Limit

Lower Limit

1 µs/div

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Design Example #4 D-CAP+ Performance Graph (2)

High-Frequency Transient Response (31 A to 189 A load @ 600 kHz)

PWM1 (2 V/div)

VOUT (50 mV/div)

PWM2 (2 V/div)

PWM3 (2 V/div)

PWM2 (2 V/div)

VOUT (50 mV/div)

CSO (2 V/div)

ALERT# (2 V/div)

12 V to 1.8 V with 4-phase operations @ 600 kHz, 150 nH, and 1 mΩ loadline

Dynamic Voltage Change (1.6 V to 1.82 V @ 5 A)

1 µs/div 20 µs/div

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References

Texas Instruments – 2014/15 Power Supply Design Seminar

•  SEM 1500 - Under the Hood of Low Voltage DC/DC Converters

•  SLVA301 - Loop Stability Analysis of Voltage Mode Buck Regulator with Different Output Capacitor Types – Continuous and Discontinuous Modes

•  Easy Calculation Yields Load Transient Response

–  http://powerelectronics.com/site-files/powerelectronics.com/files/archive/powerelectronics.com/ar/502pet23.pdf

•  Controlling Output Ripple and Achieving ESR Independence in Constant On-Time (COT) Regulator Designs

–  http://www.ti.com/lit/an/snva166a/snva166a.pdf

•  Buck Regulator Topologies for Wide Input/Output Voltage Differentials

–  http://www.ti.com/lit/an/snva594/snva594.pdf

•  Switching Power Supply Topology Voltage Mode vs. Current Mode

–  http://www.ti.com/general/docs/litabsmultiplefilelist.tsp?literatureNumber=slua119

•  Modeling, Analysis and Compensation of the Current-Mode Converter

–  http://www.ti.com/general/docs/lit/getliterature.tsp?baseLiteratureNumber=SLUA101&fileType=pdf

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