The TPS53318 and TPS53319 devices add a ramp signal to the 0.6-V reference in order to improve jitter performance. As described in the previous section, the feedback voltage is compared with the reference information to keep the output voltage in regulation. By adding a small ramp signal to the reference, the signal-to-noise ratio at the onset of a new switching cycle is improved. Therefore the operation becomes less jittery and more stable. The ramp signal is controlled to start with –7 mV at the beginning of an on-cycle and becomes 0 mV at the end of an off-cycle in steady state.

During skip mode operation, under discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), the switching frequency is lower than the nominal frequency and the off-time is longer than the off-time in CCM. Because of the longer off-time, the ramp signal extends after crossing 0 mV. However, it is clamped at 3 mV to minimize the DC offset.