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Application information LED7707
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6.5 Layout consideration
1. A careful PCB layout is important for proper operation. In this section some guidelines
are provided in order to achieve a good layout.
2. The device has two different ground pins: signal ground (SGND) and power ground
(PGND). The PGND pin handles the switching current related to the boost section; for
this reason the PCB traces should be kept as short as possible and with adequate
width.
3. The signal ground is the return for the device supply and the current generators and
can be connected to the thermal pad.
4. The heat dissipation area (adequate to the application conditions) should be placed
backside respect to the device and with the lowest thermal impedance possible (i.e.
PCB traces in the backside should be avoided). The dissipation area is thermally and
electrically connected to the thermal pad by several vias (nine vias are recommended).
5. The signal and power grounds must be connected together in a single point as close as
possible to the PGND pin to reduce ground loops.
6. The R-C components of the compensation network should be placed as close as
possible to the COMP pin in order to avoid noise issue and instability of the
compensation.
7. Noise sensitive signals (i.e. feedbacks and compensation) should be routed as short as
possible to minimize noise collection. The LED7707 pinout makes it easy to separate
power components (e.g. inductor, diode) from signal ones.
8. The LX switching node should have and adequate width for high efficiency.
9. The critical power path inductor-LX-PGND must be as short as possible by mounting
the inductor, the diode and COUT as close as possible each other.
10. The capacitors of the compensated divider connected to the OVSEL pin should be
placed as close as possible to the OVSEL pin.
11. In order to assure good performance in terms of row current accuracy/mismatch, the
PCB traces from the rows pins to the LEDs should have similar length and width.
12. The capacitors of the filter connected to LDO5 and VIN pins should be mounted as
close as possible to the mentioned pins
Figure 22 and Figure 23 shows the demonstration board layout (top view and bottom view
respectively).