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L6564 Application information
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6.6 Power management/housekeeping functions
A communication line with the control IC of the cascaded dc-dc converter can be
established via the disable function included in the PFC_OK pin (see
Section 6.2: Feedback
failure protection (FFP) on page 19
for more details). Typically this line is used to allow the
PWM controller of the cascaded dc-dc converter to shut down the L6564 device in case of
light load and to minimize the no-load input consumption. Should the residual consumption
of the chip be an issue, it is also possible to cut down the supply voltage. Interface circuits
like those are shown in
Figure 32. Needless to say, this operation assumes that the
cascaded dc-dc converter stage works as the master and the PFC stage as the slave or, in
other words, that the dc-dc stage starts first, it powers both controllers and enables/disables
the operation of the PFC stage.
Figure 33. Interface circuits that let dc-dc converter's controller IC disable the L6564
Another function available is the brownout protection which is basically a not-latched
shutdown function that is activated when a condition of mains under voltage is detected.
This condition may cause overheating of the primary power section due to an excess of
RMS current. Brownout can also cause the PFC preregulator to work open loop and this
could be dangerous to the PFC stage itself and the downstream converter, should the input
voltage return abruptly to its rated value. Another problem is the spurious restarts that may
occur during converter power down and that cause the output voltage of the converter not to
decay to zero monotonically. For these reasons it is usually preferable to shutdown the unit
in case of brownout. Brownout threshold is internally fixed at 0.8 V and is sensed on pin V
FF
(5) during the voltage falling and 80 mV threshold hysteresis prevents from rebounding at
input voltage turn off. In
Table 5 it is possible to find a summary of all of the above
mentioned working conditions that cause the device to stop operating.
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