ZHCSOF7B september 2022 – june 2023 TPS25990
PRODUCTION DATA
The TPS25990 responds to output overcurrent conditions during start-up by actively limiting the current. The device constantly senses the current flowing through the device (IDEVICE) and provides an analog current output (IILIM) on the ILIM pin, which in turn produces a proportional voltage (VILIM) across the ILIM pin resistor (RILIM) as per Equation 7.
The overcurrent condition is detected by comparing this voltage against a threshold which is a scaled voltage (CLREFSAT) derived from the reference voltage (VIREF) on the IREF pin as presented in Equation 8.
The reference voltage (VIREF) can be controlled in two ways, which sets the overcurrent protection threshold (ILIM) accordingly.
The reference voltage (VIREF) can be generated using internal DAC and can be changed by programming the non-volatile configuration memory or dynamically through PMBus® writes to the VIREF register.
The active current limit (ILIM) threshold during start-up can be calculated using Equation 9.
When the load current during start-up exceeds ILIM, the device tries to regulate and hold the load current at ILIM.
During current regulation, the output voltage drops, resulting in increased device power dissipation across the FET. If the device internal temperature (TJ) exceeds the thermal shutdown threshold, the FET is turned off. After the part shuts down due to a TSD fault, it either stays latched off or restarts automatically after a delay based on the RETRY_CONFIG register setting. See Overtemperature protection section for more details on device response to overtemperature.
The active current limit block employs a foldback mechanism during start-up based on the output voltage (VOUT). When VOUT is below the foldback threshold (VFB), the current limit threshold is further lowered.