Datasheet
Table Of Contents
- Figure 1. Application circuit
- 1 Pin settings
- 2 Maximum ratings
- 3 Electrical characteristics
- 4 Functional description
- 5 Application information
- 5.1 Input capacitor selection
- 5.2 Inductor selection
- 5.3 Output capacitor selection
- 5.4 Compensation network
- 5.5 Thermal considerations
- 5.6 Layout considerations
- 5.7 Application circuit
- Figure 18. Demonstration board application circuit
- Table 9. Component list
- Figure 19. PCB layout (component side)
- Figure 20. PCB layout (bottom side)
- Figure 21. PCB layout (front side)
- Figure 22. Junction temperature vs output current
- Figure 23. Junction temperature vs output current
- Figure 24. Junction temperature vs output current
- Figure 25. Efficiency vs output current
- Figure 26. Efficiency vs output current
- Figure 27. Efficiency vs output current
- Figure 28. Load regulation
- Figure 29. Line regulation
- Figure 30. Short circuit behavior
- Figure 31. Load transient: from 0.1 A to 0.7 A
- Figure 32. Soft-start
- 6 Application ideas
- 7 Package mechanical data
- 8 Order codes
- 9 Revision history

Application information L5980
18/42 Doc ID 13003 Rev 6
5.4 Compensation network
The compensation network has to assure stability and good dynamic performance. The loop
of the L5980 is based on the voltage mode control. The error amplifier is a voltage
operational amplifier with high bandwidth. So selecting the compensation network the E/A
will be considered as ideal, that is, its bandwidth is much larger than the system one.
The transfer functions of PWM modulator and the output LC filter are studied (see). The
transfer function of the PWM modulator, from the error amplifier output (COMP pin) to the
OUT pin, results:
Equation 10
where V
S
is the sawtooth amplitude. As seen in Chapter 4.1, the voltage feed forward
generates a sawtooth amplitude directly proportional to the input voltage, that is:
Equation 11
In this way the PWM modulator gain results constant and equals to:
Equation 12
The synchronization of the device with an external clock provided trough SYNCH pin can
modifies the PWM modulator gain (see Chapter 4.1 to understand how this gain changes
and how to keep it constant in spite of the external synchronization).
Figure 9. The error amplifier, the PWM modulator and the LC output filter
The transfer function on the LC filter is given by:
G
PW0
V
IN
V
s
---------=
V
S
KV
IN
⋅=
G
PW0
V
IN
V
s
---------
1
K
--- - 9===
FB
COMP
V
REF
E/A
PWM
V
S
OUT
V
CC
C
OUT
ESR
L
G
PW0
G
LC
FB
COMP
V
REF
E/A
PWM
V
S
OUT
V
CC
C
OUT
ESR
L
G
PW0
G
LC