ZHCS996D June 2012 – February 2018 TPS81256
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The TPS81256 directly and accurately controls the average input current through intelligent adjustment of the valley current limit. The current limit circuit employs a valley current sensing scheme. Current limit detection occurs during the off-time by sensing of the voltage drop across the synchronous rectifier.
The output voltage is reduced as the power stage of the device operates in a constant current mode. The maximum continuous output current (IOUT(CL)), before entering current limit (CL) operation, can be defined by Equation 1.
The output current, IOUT(DC), is the average of the rectifier ripple current waveform. When the load current is increased such that the lower peak is above the current limit threshold, the off-time is increased to allow the current to decrease to this threshold before the next on-time begins (so called frequency fold-back mechanism). When the current limit is reached the output voltage decreases during further load increase.