ZHCS826C January 2012 – November 2023 TPS40170-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA
The TPS40170-Q1 controller uses the negative drop across the low-side FET at the end of the OFF time to measure the inductor current. Allowing for 30% over the minimum current limit for transient recovery and a 20% rise in RDS(on)Q2 for self-heating of the MOSFET, the voltage drop across the low-side FET at the current limit is given by Equation 39.
The internal current-limit temperature coefficient helps compensate for the MOSFET RDS(on) temperature coefficient, so the current-limit programming resistor is selected by Equation 40.
A 1000-pF capacitor is placed in parallel to improve noise immunity of the current-limit set-point.