ZHCSCJ5A June 2014 – June 2014 TPS82740A , TPS82740B
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The device is designed to operate from an input voltage supply range between 2.2V and 5.5V with a maximum output current of 200mA. Once the input voltage comes close to the output voltage, the DC/DC converter stops switching and enters 100% duty cycle operation. The integrated slew rate controlled load switch can distribute the selected output voltage to a temporarily used sub-system. The TPS82740 module operates in PWM mode for medium and high load conditions and in power save mode at light load currents.
At high load currents, the converter operates in quasi fixed frequency PWM mode operation. The switching frequency is up to 1.7MHz with a controlled frequency variation depending on the input voltage. If the load current decreases, the converter seamlessly enters Power Save Mode by varying the switching frequency linearly to maintain high efficiency over the full load current range. At very light load conditions the device generates a single switching pulse to ramp up the inductor current and recharge the output capacitor, followed by a sleep period where most of the internal circuits are shutdown to achieve 360nA quiescent current consumption.
TPS82740 is a complete step-down converter module including all passive components (inductor, input and output capacitor). For most applications no additional input / output capacitors are required. Use the following typical application design procedure to select additional external components in case further performance improvement of the module is desired.
For most applications, the integrated input capacitor at the VIN pin is sufficient.
TPS82740 uses a tiny ceramic input capacitor. When a ceramic capacitor is combined with trace or cable inductance, such as that from a wall adapter, a load step at the output can induce ringing at the VIN pin. This ringing can couple to the output and be mistaken as loop instability or can even damage the module. In this circumstance, additional ceramic 'bulk" capacitance, such as electrolytic or tantalum, should be placed between the input of the module and the power source lead to reduce ringing that occurs between the inductance of the power source leads and the module.
In addition to the small ceramic input capacitor a larger buffer capacitor CBuf is recommended to reduce voltage drops and ripple voltage. When using battery chemistries like Li-SOCl2, Li-SO2, Li-MnO2, the impedance of the battery has to be considered. These battery types tend to increase their impedance depending on discharge status and often can support output currents of only a few mA. Therefore a buffer capacitor is recommended to stabilize the battery voltage during DC/DC operations e.g. for a RF transmission. A voltage drop on the input of the TPS82740 during DC/DC operation impacts the advantage of the step down conversion for system power reduction. Furthermore the voltage drops can fall below the minimum recommended operating voltage of the device and leads to an early system cut off. Both effects reduce the battery life time. To achieve best performance and to extract the most energy out of the battery a good procedure is to select the buffer capacitor value for an voltage drop below 50mVpp during DC/DC operation. The capacitor value strongly depends on the used battery type, as well the current consumption during a RF transmission as well the duration of the transmission.
For most applications, the integrated output capacitor at the VOUT pin is sufficient.
In order to further reduce the output voltage ripple and improve the load transient performance an additional external output capacitance may be used. For most applications an additional 4.7µF or 10µF capacitor will be sufficient. Care should be taken that the total effective capacitance present at the output does not exceed 10µF in order to guarantee loop stability. Ceramic capacitors with low ESR values have the lowest output voltage ripple and are recommended.
At the LOAD output pin, no additional output capacitor is required. For applications demanding external capacitance connected to the LOAD pin, the total capacitance should not exceed 10µF.