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UCC1919
UCC2919
UCC3919
PIN DESCRIPTIONS
CAP: A capacitor is placed from this pin to ground to fil
-
ter the output of the on board charge pump. A .01µFto
0.1µF capacitor is recommended .
CSN: The negative current sense input signal.
CSP: The positive current sense input signal.
CT: Input to the duty cycle timer. A capacitor is con
nected from this pin to ground, setting the off time and
the maximum on time of the overcurrent protection cir
cuits.
FLT
: Fault indicator. This open drain output will pull low
under any fault condition where the output driver is dis
abled. This output is disabled when the IC is in low cur
rent standby mode.
GATE: The output of the linear current amplifier. This pin
drives the gate of an external N-channel MOSFET pass
transistor. The linear current amplifier control loop is in
ternally compensated, and guaranteed stable for output
load (gate) capacitance between 100pF and .01µF. In
applications where the GATE voltage (or charge pump
voltage) exceeds the maximum Gate-to-Source voltage
ratings (V
GS
) for the external N-channel MOSFET, a
Zener clamp may be added to the gate of the MOSFET.
No additional series resistance is required since the internal charge pump has a finite output impedance of
100k
typical.
GND: The ground reference for the device.
IBIAS: Output of the on board bias generator internally
regulated to 1.5V below CSP. A resistor divider between
this pin and CSP can be used to generate the IMAX volt
-
age. The bias circuit is internally compensated, and re
quires no bypass capacitance. If an external bypass is
required due to a noisy environment, the circuit will be
stable with up to .001µF of capacitance. The bypass
must be to CSP, since the bias voltage is generated with
respect to CSP. Resistor R2 (Figure 4) should be greater
than 50k
to minimize the effect of the finite input imped
-
ance of the IBIAS pin on the IMAX threshold.
IMAX: Used to program the maximum allowable sourcing
current. The voltage on this pin is with respect to CSP. If
the voltage across the shunt resistor exceeds this voltage
the linear current amplifier lowers the voltage at GATE to
limit the output current to this level. If the voltage across
the shunt resistor goes more than 200mV beyond this
voltage, the gate drive pin GATE is immediately driven
low and kept low for one full off time interval.
L/R: Latch/Reset. This pin sets the reset mode. If L/R is
low and a fault occurs the device will begin duty ratio cur
rent limiting. If L/R is high and a fault occurs, GATE will
go low and stay low until L/R is set low. This pin is inter
nally pulled low by a 3µA nominal pulldown.
PL: Power Limit. This pin is used to control average
power dissipation in the external MOSFET.If a resistor is
connected from this pin to the source of the external
MOSFET, the current in the resistor will be roughly proportional to the voltage across the FET. As the voltage
across the FET increases, this current is added to the
fault timer charge current, reducing the on time duty cycle from its nominal value of 3% and limiting the average
power dissipation in the FET.
SD
: Shutdown pin. If this pin is taken low, GATE will go
low, and the IC will go into a low current standby mode
and CT will be discharged. This TTL compatible input
must be driven high to turn on.
VDD: The power connection for the device.
The UCC3919 monitors the voltage drop across a high
side sense resistor and compares it against three differ
-
ent voltage thresholds. These are discussed below. Fig
ure 1 shows the UCC3919 waveforms under fault
conditions.
Fault Threshold
The first threshold is fixed at 50mV. If the current is high
enough such that the voltage on CSN is 50mV below
CSP, the timing capacitor C
T begins to charge at about
35µA if the PL pin is open. (Power limiting will be dis
cussed later). If this threshold is exceeded long enough
for C
T
to charge to 1.5V, a fault is declared and the exter
-
nal MOSFET will be turned off. It will either be latched off
(until the power to the circuit is cycled, the L/R pin is
taken low, or the SD
pin is toggled), or will retry after a
fixed off time (when C
T has discharged to 0.5V), depend
ing on whether the L/R pin is set high or low by the user.
The equation for this current threshold is simply:
I
R
FAULT
SENSE
=
005.
(1)
The first time a fault occurs, C
T is at ground, and must
charge 1.5V. Therefore:
()
tt
CF
FAULT ON
T
==
•
(sec)
.µ 15
35
(2)
APPLICATION INFORMATION