SBVS125D August 2010 – June 2015 TPS7A30
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The TPS7A30 family of devices are wide VIN, low-noise, 150-mA linear regulators (LDOs). These devices feature an enable pin, programmable soft-start, current limiting, and thermal protection circuitry that allow the device to be used in a wide variety of applications. As bipolar-based devices, the TPS7A30 devices are ideal for high-accuracy, high-precision applications at higher voltages.
The fixed internal current limit of the TPS7A30 family helps protect the regulator during fault conditions. The maximum amount of current the device can source is the current limit (330 mA, typical), and is largely independent of the output voltage. For reliable operation, do not operate the device in current limit for extended periods of time.
The NR/SS capacitor also functions as a soft-start capacitor to slow down the rise time of the output. The rise time of the output when using an NR/SS capacitor is governed by Equation 1. In Equation 1, tSS is the soft-start time in milliseconds and CNR/SS is the capacitance at the NR pin in nanofarads. Figure 29 shows the relationship between the CNR/SS size and the start-up time without a CFF.
The TPS7A30 provides a dual-polarity enable pin (EN) that turns on the regulator when |VEN| > 2 V, whether the voltage is positive or negative, as shown in Figure 30.
This functionality allows for different system power management topologies:
The device regulates to the nominal output voltage under the following conditions:
If the input voltage magnitude is lower than the nominal output voltage magnitude plus the specified dropout voltage magnitude, but all other conditions are met for normal operation, the device operates in dropout mode. In this mode of operation, the output voltage magnitude is the same as the input voltage magnitude minus the dropout voltage magnitude. The transient performance of the device is significantly degraded because the pass device (such as a bipolar junction transistor, or BJT) is in saturation and no longer controls the current through the LDO. Line or load transients in dropout can result in large output voltage deviations.
The device is disabled under the following conditions:
Table 1 shows the conditions that lead to the different modes of operation.