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
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Figure 14. Open loop gain: module Bode diagram
The guidelines for positioning the poles and the zeroes and for calculating the component
values can be summarized as follow:
1. Choose a value for R
1
, usually between 1 kΩ and 5 kΩ, in order to have values of C4
and C5 not comparable with parasitic capacitance of the board.
2. Choose a gain (R
4
/R
1
) in order to have the required bandwidth (BW), that means:
Equation 22
Where f
ESR
is the ESR zero:
Equation 23
and Vs is the saw-tooth amplitude. The voltage feed forward keeps the ratio Vs/Vin constant.
3. Calculate C
4
by placing the zero one decade below the output filter double pole:
Equation 24
4. Then calculate C
3
in order to place the second pole at four times the system bandwidth
(BW):
R
4
f
ESR
f
LC
------------
⎝⎠
⎛⎞
2
BW
f
ESR
----------- -
V
S
V
IN
---------
R
1
⋅⋅⋅=
f
ESR
1
2π ESR C
OUT
⋅⋅
------------------------------------------- -=
C
4
10
2π R
4
f
LC
⋅⋅
-------------------------------=