ZHCSIA7 May 2018 DLPA4000
PRODUCTION DATA.
Register 0x01 (BUCK_GP2_EN) controls the general purpose buck converters (GP2) (Figure 16).
Use register 0x14 to configure the converter outpout voltage between 1 V and 5 V with an 8-bit resolution.
The device supports only General Purpose Buck2 (PWR6) types. has a current capability of 2 A. The device does not support other buck converters such as PWR5 or PWR7.
The buck converter operates in one of two switching modes; Normal mode (600 kHz switching frequency), mode and skip mode. Applications operate with an increase in light-load efficiency in skip mode. As the output current decreases from a heavy-load condition, the inductor current decreases. The inductor current eventually decreases to a point where the ripple valley touches zero. Zero is the boundary between continuous conduction and discontinuous conduction modes. The device de-energizes the rectifying MOSFET when it detects zero inductor current. The converter transitions into discontinuous conduction mode as the load current further decreases. Because the device maintains the on-time, it takes longer to discharge the output capacitor with a smaller load current to the level of the reference voltage. Skip mode operation can toggle per buck converter in register 0x16.