rt9232b Richtek Technology Corporation, rt9232b Datasheet - Page 10

• Manufacturer Part Number: rt9232b
• Description: Programmable Frequency Synchronous Buck Controller
• Manufacturer: Richtek Technology Corporation

RT9232B
Application Information
The RT9232B is a single-phase synchronous buck PWM
DC-DC controller designed to drive two N-MOSFETs. It
provides a highly accurate, programmable output voltage
precisely regulated to low voltage requirement with an
internal 0.8V ±1% reference.
Initialization
The RT9232B automatically initiates its softstart cycle
only after V
are ready. There is no special power-on sequence should
be took care especially while implement the chip in. The
internal Power-On Reset (POR) logic continually monitors
the voltage level of input power and enabling pin; in which
the IC supply power is monitored via VCC pin and input
power V
with driving capability of 200uA causes a fixed voltage
drop across the resistor connecting V
The RT9232B internal logic will deem the input voltage
ready once the voltage of OCSET pin is high than 1.5V.
The preferred V
appropriate resistor R
Once all voltages of VCC, OCSET, and EN pins ramp
higher than the internal specific thresholds. The internal
POR logic will initialize the softstart operation then.
Moreover, the POR inhibits driver operation while pulling
the EN pin low. Transitioning EN pin high after input supply
voltages ready to initialize soft-start operation.
Soft-Start
The behavior of RT9232B Soft-Start can be simply
described as shown in Figure.1 below; and the Soft-Start
can be sliced to several time-frames with specific operation
respectively.
T0~T1
The RT9232B initiates the softstart cycle as shown in
Figure 1 when POR function is OK. An internal 10uA current
source charges an external capacitor on SS pin (Css) to
5V. The softstart function produces an SSE signal that is
equal to SS−0.8V. Error Amplifier (EA) and PWM
comparator are triple-input devices. The non-inverting input
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SENSE
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is via OCSET pin. An internal current source
V
CC
IN_READY
and V
IN
200
ready level could be set by selecting an
μ
IN
OCSET
A
−
power and chip enabling signals
1.5V
as :
Ω
IN
to OCSET pin.
whichever is smaller dominates the behavior of the devices.
During T0~T1, since SS is smaller than the sawtooth valley,
the PWM comparator outputs low no matter what the
COMP voltage is.
T1~T2
SSE ramps up and dominates the behavior of EA during
T1~T2. EA regulates COMP appropriately so that FB
ramps up along the SSE curve. The output voltage ramps
up accordingly. Thus upper MOSFET turns on at a limited
duty and output current overshoot can be reduced.
It is noted that lower MOSFET keeps off before the upper
MOSFET starts switching. This method provides smooth
start up when there is residual voltage on output capacitors.
The output voltage delay time and ramp up time are
calculated as Equation (1) and (2) respectively.
T1
T2
0.8V
5V
−
−
T0
T1
T0
=
=
Figure 1. Timing diagram of softstart
0.8V
0.8V
0.8V
FB
10
10
T1
×
×
μ
μ
A
C
A
C
SSE
SS
SS
T2
(s)
(s)
EA
COMP
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SS
PWM
SS
SSE
COMP
FB
(1)
(2)