ZHCSI04E September 2009 – April 2018 TPS54418
PRODUCTION DATA.
The TPS54418 device regulates to the lower of the SS pin and the internal reference voltage. A capacitor on the SS pin to ground implements a soft-start time. The TPS54418 device has an internal pull-up current source of 1.8 μA which charges the external soft-start capacitor. Equation 4 calculates the required soft-start capacitor value where tSS is the desired soft-start time in ms, ISS is the internal soft-start charging current of 1.8 μA, and VREF is the internal voltage reference of 0.8 V. it is recommended to maintain the soft-start time in the range between 1 ms and 10 ms.
where
If during normal operation, the input voltage goes below the UVLO, EN pin pulled below 1.2 V, or a thermal shutdown event occurs, the TPS54418 device stops switching and the SS is discharged to 0 volts before reinitiating a powering up sequence.