Datasheet

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The current flowing through the inductor is the inductor ripple current plus the output current. During power up,
faults or transient load conditions, the inductor current can increase above the calculated peak inductor current
level calculated above. In transient conditions, the inductor current can increase up to the switch current limit of
the device. For this reason, the most conservative approach is to specify an inductor with a saturation current
rating equal to or greater than the switch current limit rather than the peak inductor current.
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OUTPUT CAPACITOR
There are three primary considerations for selecting the value of the output capacitor. The output capacitor
determines the modulator pole, the output voltage ripple, and how the regulator responds to a large change in
load current. The output capacitance needs to be selected based on the more stringent of these three criteria.
The desired response to a large change in the load current is the first criteria. The output capacitor needs to
supply the load with current when the regulator can not. This situation would occur if there are desired hold-up
times for the regulator where the output capacitor must hold the output voltage above a certain level for a
specified amount of time after the input power is removed. The regulator is temporarily not able to supply
sufficient output current if there is a large, fast increase in the current needs of the load such as transitioning
from no load to a full load. The regulator usually needs two or more clock cycles for the control loop to see the
change in load current and output voltage and adjust the duty cycle to react to the change. The output capacitor
must be sized to supply the extra current to the load until the control loop responds to the load change. The
output capacitance must be large enough to supply the difference in current for 2 clock cycles while only allowing
a tolerable amount of droop in the output voltage. Equation 26 shows the minimum output capacitance necessary
to accomplish this.
For this example, the transient load response is specified as a 3% change in Vout for a load step from 1.5 A
(25% load) to 4.5 A (75% load). For this example, ΔIout = 4.5-1.5 = 3.0A and ΔVout= 0.04 × 1.8 = 0.072 V.
Using these numbers gives a minimum capacitance of 83 μF. This value does not take the ESR of the output
capacitor into account in the output voltage change. For ceramic capacitors, the ESR is usually small enough to
ignore in this calculation.
Equation 27 calculates the minimum output capacitance needed to meet the output voltage ripple specification.
Where fsw is the switching frequency, Vripple is the maximum allowable output voltage ripple, and Iripple is the
inductor ripple current. In this case, the maximum output voltage ripple is 30 mV. Under this requirement,
Equation 27 yields 7 uF.
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Where ΔIout is the change in output current, fsw is the regulators switching frequency and ΔVout is the
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