ZHCSE88A October 2015 – February 2023 DLPA3005
PRODUCTION DATA
The Buck converter is for general purpose usage (GUID-DFF5B752-2AF6-46FD-B984-92F7979E0ABE.html#DLPS0412032). The converter can be enabled or disabled through the Enable Register, 0x01 bit:
The output voltage of the converter is configurable between 1 V and 5 V with an 8-bit resolution. This can be done through the register BUCK_GP2_TRIM.
General purpose buck2 (PWR6) has a current capability of 2 A.
The buck converter can operate in two switching modes: Normal, 600-kHz switching frequency mode and the skip mode. The skip mode is designed to increase light load efficiency. As the output current decreases from heavy load condition, the inductor current is also reduced and eventually comes to point that its rippled valley touches zero level, which is the boundary between continuous conduction and discontinuous conduction modes. The rectifying MOSFET is turned off when its zero inductor current is detected. As the load current further decreases the converter run into discontinuous conduction mode. The on-time is kept almost the same as it was in the continuous conduction mode so that it takes longer time to discharge the output capacitor with smaller load current to the level of the reference voltage. The skip mode can be enabled/disabled the buck converter in register BUCK_SKIP_ON.