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L7986TA Application ideas
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7 Application ideas
7.1 Positive buck-boost
The L7986TA can implement the step-up/down converter with a positive output voltage.
Figure 33. shows the schematic: one power MOSFET and one Schottky diode are added to
the standard buck topology to provide 12 V output voltage with input voltage from 4.5 V to 38
V.
Figure 33. Positive buck-boost regulator
The relationship between input and output voltage is:
Equation 39
so the duty cycle is:
Equation 40
The output voltage isn’t limited by the maximum operating voltage of the device (38 V),
because the output voltage is sensed only through the resistor divider. The external power
MOSFET maximum drain to source voltage must be higher than the output voltage; the
maximum gate to source voltage must be higher than the input voltage (in Figure 33, if V
IN
is
higher than 16 V, the gate must be protected through a Zener diode and resistor)
The current flowing through the internal power MOSFET is transferred to the load only
during the off-time, so according to the maximum DC switch current (3.0 A), the maximum
output current for the buck-boost topology can be calculated from the following equation.
V
OUT
V
IN
D
1D–
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⋅=
D
V
OUT
V
OUT
V
IN
+
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