• Programmable Minimum Duty
Cycle with Cycle Skipping
• Programmable Maximum
Duty Cycle
• Output Current 1A Peak
Source and Sink
• Programmable Soft Start
• Programmable Oscillator
Frequency
• External Oscillator
Synchronization Capability
BLOCK DIAGRAM
Note: Pin Connection shown for 14-pin Package
DESCRIPTION
The UCC3581 voltage mode pulse width modulator is
designed to control low power isolated DC - DC converters in applications such as Subscriber Line Power (ISDN
I.430). Primarily used for single switch forward and
flyback converters, the UCC3581 features BiCMOS circuitry for low startup and operating current, while maintainingtheabilitytodrivepowerMOSFETsat
frequencies up to 100kHz. The UCC3581 oscillator allows the flexibility to program both the frequency and the
maximum duty cycle with two resistors and a capacitor. A
TTL level input is also provided to allow synchronization
to an external frequency source.
The UCC3581 includes programmable soft start circuitry,
overcurrent detection, a 7.5V linear preregulator to control chip V
supply.
The UCC3581 provides functions to maximize light load
efficiency that are not normally found in PWM controllers.
DD during startup, and an on-board 4.0V logic
UDG-95011-1
A linear preregulator driver in conjunction with an external depletion mode N-MOSFET provides initial controller
power. Once the bootstrap supply is functional, the
preregulator is shut down to conserve power. During light
load, power is saved by providing a programmable minimum duty cycle clamp. When a duty cycle below the
minimum is called for, the modulator skips cycles to provide the correct average duty cycle required for output
regulation. This effectively reduces the switching frequency, saving significant gate drive and power stage
losses.
The UCC3581 is available in 14-pin plastic and ceramic
dual-in-line packages and in a 14-pin narrow body small
outline IC package (SOIC). The UCC1581 is specified for
operation from −55°C to +125°C, the UCC2581 is specified for operation from −40°Cto+85°C, and the
UCC3581 is specified for operation from 0°C to +70°C.
Lead Temperature (Soldering, 10 sec.). . . . . . . . . . . . . +300°C
Unless otherwise specified, all voltages are with respect to
Ground. Currents positive into, negative out of the specified terminal. Consult Packaging Section of Databook for thermal limitations and considerations of packages.
REF
+ 0.3V)
UCC1581
UCC2581
UCC3581
CONNECTION DIAGRAMS
DIL-14, SOIC-14 (Top View)
N or J, D Packages
ORDERING INFORMATION
TEMPERATURE RANGEPACKAGE
UCC1581J–55°C to +125°CCDIP
UCC2581D–40°C to +85°CSOIC
UCC2581N–40°C to +85°CPDIP
UCC3581D0°C to +70°CSOIC
UCC3581N0°C to +70°CPDIP
ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
from VDD to GND, 1.0µF capacitor from REF to GND, RT1 = 680kΩ, RT2 = 12kΩ, CT = 750pF and TA = TJ.
PARAMETERTEST CONDITIONSMINTYPMAX UNITS
Reference Section
Output VoltageI = –0.2mA3.944.04.06V
Load Regulation–5.0mA < I < –0.2mA1030mV
Undervoltage Lockout Section
Start Threshold6.77.37.9V
Minimum Operating Voltage After Start6.26.87.4V
Hysteresis0.20.50.8V
Note 1: Guaranteed by design. Not 100% tested in production
PIN DESCRIPTIONS
CT: Oscillator timing capacitor pin. Minimum value is
100pF.
DCMIN: Input for programming minimum duty cycle
where pulse skipping begins. This pin can be grounded
to disable minimum duty cycle feature and pulse
skipping.
EN: Enable input. This pin has an internal 10µA pull-up.
A logic low input inhibits the PWM output and causes the
soft start capacitor to be discharged.
GND: Circuit ground.
GT: Pin for controlling the gate of an external depletion
mode N-MOSFET for the startup supply. The external
N-MOSFET regulates VDD to 7.5V until the bootstrap
supply comes up, then GT goes low.
ISEN: Input for overcurrent comparator. This function
can be used for pulse-by-pulse current limiting. The
threshold is 0.5V nominal.
OUT: Gate drive output to external N-MOSFET.
REF: 4.0V reference output. A minimum value bypass
capacitor of 1.0µF is required for stability.
RT1: Resistor pin to program oscillator charging current.
20
V
The oscillator charging current is
92
..•
RT
.
1
See Application Diagram Fig. 1.
201.
V
The current into this pin is
RT
.
The value of RT1 should be between 220k and 1MΩ.
RT2: Resistor pin to program oscillator discharge time.
The minimum value of RT2 is 10kΩ. See Application
Diagram Fig. 1.
SS: Soft start capacitor pin. The charging current out of
SS is 3.75X the current in RT1.
SYNC: Oscillator synchronization pin. Rising edge
triggered CMOS/TTL compatible input with a 2.1V
threshold. SYNC should be grounded if not used. The
minimum pulse width of the SYNC signal is 100ns.
VC: Control voltage input to PWM comparator. The
nominal control range of VC is 1.0V to 2.5V.
VDD: Chip input power with an 15V internal clamp. VDD
is regulated by startup FET to 7.5V until the bootstrap
voltage comes up. VDD should be bypassed at the chip
with a 0.1µF minimum capacitor.
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APPLICATION INFORMATION
The UCC3581’s oscillator allows the user the flexibility to
program the frequency and the duty cycle by adjusting
two resistors and a capacitor. Application Diagram Fig. 1
shows these components as RT1, RT2, and C
grams the timing capacitor charging current which results
in a linear ramp charging C
T. Discharge of CT is accom-
plished though RT2 which results in a standard RC discharge waveform. The oscillator on-time (C
calculated by the formula
tRTC
=••00821.
ONT
The off-time (C
tRTC
OFFT
T discharging) is calculated by the formula
=••0951.
.
.
Resistor RT1 programs the charging current. The current
is
2.0V
.
RT
1
CT charging current is 9.2 times the current in RT1. RT1
can range from 220kΩ to 1MΩ. Minimum capacitor size
is 100pF, and minimum RT2 size is 10k.
A Block Diagram of the Oscillator is shown in Fig. 2. The
oscillator also has an external synchronization pin.
When a low to high level is detected, and if the oscillator’s output is in the high state (C
T charging), the oscilla-
toroutputimmediately goes lowandC
discharging. The sync input is rising edge sensitive and
is ignored when the oscillator output is low.
T. RT1 pro-
T charging) is
T starts
RT2
CT
GT
VDD
OUT
GND
REF
ISEN
UCC3581
REF &
E/A
R
L
C
T
BSS129 OR
EQUIV.
D2
REF
V
IN
T1
1
V
IN
2
3
1µF
Q1
4
5
6
1µF
7
D1
Figure 1. Application diagram.
RT2
UCC1581
UCC2581
UCC3581
14
13SYNC
12RT1
RT1
11EN
10SS
C
9DCMIN
8VC
U1
SS
REF
REF
U1
UDG-99043
Figure 2. Oscillator.
UDG-96105
4
APPLICATION INFORMATION (cont.)
The externally bypassed 4.0V reference is controlled by
undervoltage lockout and chip enable circuitry. The enable input is internally tied to a 10µA current source
which allows the pin to be driven by an open collector
driver. The part is also enabled if EN floats. The
UCC3581 has a soft start function which requires a user
supplied external timing capacitor. When in soft start
mode, the soft start capacitor, C
constant current source. The soft start current is 3.75X
the current in RT1.
There is an on-chip control amplifier, which when driving
the gate of an external depletion mode N-MOSFET, acts
as a 7.5V linear preregulator supplying VDD directly from
the primary input power line. The preregulator may subsequently be fully disabled by a tertiary bootstrap winding
providing a minimum of 8.2V to the VDD pin.
Computation of DCMIN
DCMIN for a given duty cycle is calculated as follows.
tt
+
()
∆
ViDC
=••
OSC
ONOFF
C
T
where
• i = oscillator charge current = 9.2 . (2.0V/RT1)
• DC = Duty Cycle, as a fraction of 1
• t
= 0.082 • RT1 • CT
ON
• t
• C
= 0.95 • RT2 • CT
OFF
= Oscillator Capacitor
T
The CT pin ramp slews from 1V to 2.5V. Therefore, add
∆V to 1V to get DCMIN voltage.
Example: For 10% duty cycle with RT1 = 680kΩ, RT2 =
12kΩ, and CT = 705pF,
SS, is charged with a
UCC1581
UCC2581
UCC3581
A Typical Micropower Application
The circuit shown in Fig. 3 illustrates the use of the
UCC3581 in a micropower application. The isolated 5V
flyback power supply uses a minimum of parts and operates over an 8:1 input voltage range (15VDC to 120VDC)
while delivering a regulated 5V output with a load swing
from 0W to 1W. It operates in the discontinuous mode at
light load or high line, and continuous mode at heavier
loads and lower line voltages. Higher input line voltages
are possible by simply increasing the voltage ratings of
C1, Q1, D1 and D2.
The most notable feature of the design is its efficiency.
With a load of 1 watt, the typical efficiency is 82%, dropping to 70% around 50mW. With a load of only 12.5mW,
the efficiency remains as high as 50%. At this load, with
an input of 50V, the total input current is only 500µA.
Note that the power supply can be disabled by pulling the
UCC3581 enable pin low, in which case the input current
drops to less than 150µA.
The UCC3581 achieves very low losses by means of low
quiescent current and pulse skipping at light loads which
reduces switching losses. The degree of pulse skipping
is controlled by programming the minimum duty cycle. In
this example, the frequency is 35kHz at maximum load
and drops to <2kHz at 12.5mW load (minimum pulse
width of around 6µsec, or 21% duty cycle at 35kHz).
Another way losses are reduced is operating with a VDD
of around 10V rather than the more common 12V to 16V.
At such light primary currents, the MOSFET remains in
full saturation with a gate drive voltage well below 10V.
Gate drive losses are minimized by choosing a MOSFET
with low total gate charge, in this case only 8nC maximum. By choosing a large gate drive resistor, EMI is minimized by reducing peak currents. Due to pulse skipping,
switching times are less critical for efficiency at light load.
∆
ViDC
=••
OSC
20
.
V
•
92
.
=
∆
680
VV
=018.
()
•• •+ •
014182 10855 10
k
Therefore,
DCMINVVV
=+=1018118..
tt
+
()
ONOFF
C
T
−−
..sec.sec
750 1012•
56
−
Theshuntregulator(LM3411)andoptocoupler
(MOC8100) are also key to the efficiency at such light
loads, and were chosen for their low operating current.
The LM3411 has a quiescent current of only 150µA maximum (compared to 1mA for the more common TL431). In
addition, because it is not a three terminal device, the
LM3411’s quiescent current does not flow in the
optocoupler LED. Since this bias current is not in the
feedback control path, a higher value pull-up resistor
can be used on the optocoupler output transistor, further
reducing losses.
5
TYPICAL APPLICATION
UCC1581
UCC2581
UCC3581
Figure 3. Micropower power supply with 50% efficiency at 12.5mW load.
90.0%
50V
80.0%
25V
70.0%
75V
60.0%
100V
50.0%
40.0%
Efficiency (%)
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
12.637.963.1128.3236.3480.71054
UDG-96104
Figure 4. UCC3581 efficiency vs. line and load.
OutputLoad (mW)
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APPLICATION INFORMATION (cont.)
A rather large soft start capacitor was chosen to give a
startup time of several hundred milliseconds, reducing
the input surge current while the output is coming up.
Note that for stability, the UCC3581 V
tor needs to be at least 1µF. The VDD supply also needs
some capacitance to hold it up between pulses at light
load and high line, where the frequency may drop to less
than 1kHz due to pulse skipping. Otherwise it may drop
low enough for the startup MOSFET to be biased on,
lowering efficiency.
REF bypass capaci-
UCC1581
UCC2581
UCC3581
If the sync input is used, it should not be left in a high impedance state where noise could cause false triggering.
If unused, it should be grounded.
The transformer was designed with a standard Magnetics RM8 ferrite core using P material, gapped for an A
1600mH/1000Turn2. The primary consists of 44 turns,
while the 5V secondary has 10 turns and the bootstrap
winding 18 turns. For simplicity, all the windings can be
#28 AWG. Atwo section bobbin was used to provide high
primary to secondary isolation. A much smaller design,
with reduced isolation, could have been done for this low
power level.
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