V09N4 - NOVEMBER

LINEAR TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOG
TECHNOLOGY
NOVEMBER 1999
IN THIS ISSUE…
COVER ARTICLE
SOT-23 Micropower, Rail-to-Rail
Op Amps Operate with Inputs above
the Positive Supply ....................... 1
Raj Ramchandani
Issue Highlights ............................ 2
LTC® in the News… ...................... 2
DESIGN FEATURES
3ppm/°C Micropower Reference Draws
Only 50µ A and Operates on 2.8V
..................................................... 4
VOLUME IX NUMBER 4
SOT-23 Micropower,
Rail-to-Rail Op Amps
Operate with Inputs
above the Positive
Supply
by Raj Ramchandani
John Wright
Smart Battery Charger Is
Programmed via the SMBus ........... 6
Mark Gurries
LTC1755 Smart Card Interface
Provides Inductorless Boost and
Signal-Level Translators ............. 11
Steven Martin
LT®1306: Synchronous Boost DC/DC
Converter Disconnects Output
in Shutdown ............................... 14
Bing Fong Ma
Versatile Dual Hot Swap
Controller/Power Sequencer Allows
Live Backplane Insertion ............. 19
Bill Poucher
LTC1642: a Hot Swap Controller
with Foldback Current Limiting
and Overvoltage Protection ......... 23
Pat Madden
DESIGN IDEAS
Cost and Space Efficient
Backlighting for Small LCD Panels
................................................... 27
Jim Williams
High Efficiency PolyPhase Converter
Combines Power from Multiple Inputs
................................................... 28
Wei Chen and Craig Varga
Isolated RS485 Transceiver
Breaks Ground Loops .................. 29
Mitchell Lee
(More Design Ideas on pages 33–37;
complete list on page 27)
New Device Cameos ..................... 37
Design Tools ................................ 39
Sales Offices ............................... 40
Introduction
The only SOT-23 op amps featuring
Over-The-Top™ operation—the ability to operate with either or both
inputs above the positive rail—are
the 55µA LT1782 and the 300µA
LT1783. Over-The-Top operation is
important in many current-sensing
applications, where the inputs are
required to operate at or above the
supply. A wide supply voltage range,
from 2.7V to 18V, gives the LT1782/
LT1783 broad applicability. The guaranteed offset voltage of 950µV over
temperature is the lowest of any SOT23 op amp. There is even a shutdown
feature for ultralow supply current
applications.
General Purpose Appeal
The LT1782/LT1783 SOT-23 op amps
are ideal for general-purpose applications that demand high performance.
These SOT-23 op amps handle input
voltages as high as 18V, both
differential and common mode, independent of the supply voltage, making
them ideal for applications with wide
input range requirements and/or
unusual input conditions. (For a
description of the unique input stage
that achieves this, see Linear Technology VIII:2, May 1998, p.10.) In
applications that require more bandwidth than the 200kHz LT1782, the
LT1783’s sixfold increase in supply
current gives it six times more bandwidth and slew rate. The LT1782/
LT1783 are available in two pinouts:
a 6-lead version with a shutdown
feature that reduces supply current
to only 5µA and a standard-pinout
5-lead version. Table 1 summarizes
the performance of these new op amps.
Read All of the Specs
The appeal of other SOT-23 op amps
begins to diminish when the specifications are reviewed in detail.
Common factors that keep most SOT23 parts from being general-purpose
amplifiers include low supply voltage
range, high input offset voltage, low
voltage gain and poor output stage
performance.
To address these problems, the
LT1782/LT1783 are fabricated on
Linear Technology’s “workhorse” high
speed bipolar process, which allows
the amplifiers to operate on all single
and split supplies with a total voltage
of 2.7V to 18V. For improved precision, thin film resistors are tightly
trimmed at wafer sort; this guarantees that the input offset voltage will
continued on page 3
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EDITOR’S PAGE
Issue Highlights
Our cover article for this issue introduces the LT1782/LT1783, the only
SOT-23 op amps featuring Over-TheTop operation—the ability to operate
with either or both inputs above the
positive rail. Over-The-Top operation
is important in many current-sensing applications, where the inputs
are required to operate at or above the
supply. A wide supply voltage range,
from 2.7V to 18V, gives the LT1782/
LT1783 broad applicability. The guaranteed offset voltage of 950µV over
temperature is the lowest of any
SOT-23 op amp.
In our Design Features section, we
debut a new micropower, precision
voltage reference: the new LT1461
bandgap voltage reference is a low
dropout reference that has superb
temperature coefficient, tight output
tolerance and low supply current.
High output current and unmeasurable thermal regulation make the
LT1461 ideal for micropower precision regulator applications. To achieve
these characteristics, new wafer trim
techniques were developed and
extensive characterization of thermal
hysteresis and long-term drift were
performed.
In the power realm, we present two
new products: The LTC1759 Smart
Battery Charger and the LT1306
synchronous boost converter. The
LTC1759 is a Smart Battery Charger
that offers constant-current (CC) and
constant-voltage (CV), charging
modes. The LTC1759 also incorporates such features as SMBus
programmable output voltage and
current, external, resistor programmable current limit, LTC’s patented
programmable AC wall adapter current limiting to maximize charge rate
and efficiencies as high as 95%.
The LT1306 is a synchronous boost
DC/DC converter with the ability to
disconnect its output from its input
in shutdown (traditional boost converters lack this ability). Additionally,
the LT1306 can regulate the output
when the input voltage exceeds the
2
output voltage. This is useful, for
example, for generating a 5V supply
from a 4-cell alkaline battery. Lastly,
inrush current is controlled, so a new
battery can be installed without risking high inrush current as the battery
initially charges the output capacitor.
Two new additions to LTC’s Hot
Swap™ controller family, the LTC1642
and LTC1645, are premiered in this
issue. The LTC1642 limits the charging current drawn by a board’s
capacitors, allowing safe circuit board
insertion into a hot backplane. It also
offers additional capabilities, some
new to the Hot Swap family: a maximum recommended operating voltage
of 16.5V, a programmable electronic
circuit breaker with foldback current
limiting, overvoltage protection to 33V,
and a voltage reference and uncommitted comparator.
The LTC1645’s two channels can
be set to ramp up and down separately at a programmable rate or they
can be programmed to rise and fall
simultaneously, ensuring power supply tracking at the two outputs. Two
high-side switch drivers control the
external N-channel FET gates for supply voltages ranging from 1.2V to
12V. Programmable electronic circuit
breakers protect against shorts at
either output.
Another new interface product is
the LTC1755 smart card interface.
The LTC1755 provides a simple and
complete solution to smart card
interfacing. Requiring only two bypass
capacitors and one charge pump
capacitor, the LTC1755 interfaces
seamlessly between a smart card
socket and a host microcontroller. It
is designed to comply with all of the
available electrical standards for
smart card interfacing.
This issue offers a variety of Design
Ideas, including a PolyPhase™ DC/DC
converter that combines power from
multiple inputs, an isolated RS485
transceiver, a sine wave to square
wave converter using the LT1719 comparator and a tiny backlight power
LTC in the News…
On October 12, 1999, Linear
Technology Corporation announced its financial results for the first
quarter of fiscal year 2000. Robert
H. Swanson, Chairman and CEO,
stated, “Although the summer
quarter historically has minimum
growth, this was a strong quarter
for us as demand from our
customers continued strong,
increasing in all major markets.”
The Company reported sales of
$147,531,000 (a 5% increase over
sales for the previous quarter) and
net income of $58,457,000 compared with $44,382,000 a year ago.
Net sales were up 27% over last
year.
Immediately after first quarter
earnings were released to the press,
Linear Technology Chairman and
CEO Robert H. Swanson was
interviewed live on CNNfn’s Digital
Jam by commentator Bruce
Francis. The interview focused on
Linear’s earnings and the forces
driving the analog market. Digital
Jam is received nationally in over
12,000,000 households.
The Company was featured in
the New York Times in an article
entitled “Analog’s Success Stories.”
Linear Technology was touted as a
“pure play” analog company that is
an apparent paradox of the digital
revolution. As Jill Hauser of T.
Rowe Price observed in the story,
“if anything, the digital phenomenon has increased demand, it has
driven analog.”
Barron’s recently speculated in
an article that Linear Technology
might soon become one of the S&P
500 Index companies. The S&P is
the most widely used benchmark
for professional investors.
supply for palmtop devices, plus the
third in a series of articles on designing filters with added stopband
notches using the LTC1562 Operational Filter™ IC.
We conclude with six New Device
Cameos.
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN FEATURES
Other Niceties
Table 1. LT1782/LT1783 SOT-23 guaranteed performance, VS = 3V/0V or 5V/0V, TA = 25°C
Parameter
Supply Voltage Range
Supply Current
Input Offset Voltage
Input Bias Current
Input Current, V + = 0V (typ)
Input Offset Current
Open Loop Gain, RL = 10kΩ
PSRR
CMRR
Common Mode Range
Output Swing, Low, Relative to V –
Output Swing, High, Relative to V +
Slew Rate (typ)
Gain Bandwidth Product (typ)
CLOAD Stability (typ)
Input Noise Voltage (typ)
Input Noise Current (typ)
LT1782
2.7V to 18V
55µA
800µV
15nA
0.1nA
2nA
200V/mV
90dB
90dB
0V to18V
8mV
90mV
0.07V/µs
200kHz
500pF
50nV/√Hz
0.06pA/√Hz
be under 950µV over the commercial
temperature range. This results in
the lowest offset voltage of any SOT23 amplifier. Furthermore, unlike
competitive amplifiers with meager
open-loop voltage gains of 20V/mV or
less, the LT1782/LT1783 have a guaranteed voltage gain of 200V/mV into
a 10k load.
Finally, to optimize the output
stage, nitride capacitors were added
to the process. This halves the area of
the internal compensation capacitors
and allows small die size with excellent frequency stability. In fact, the
LT1782/LT1783 are stable with
capacitive loads up to 500pF under
all load conditions. The minimum
Attention to small details is important for universal acceptance into
general-purpose applications. The
parts are completely specified on 3V,
5V and ±5V supplies and the op amps
operate properly if the shutdown pin
is left floating. Input-stage phasereversal protection prevents the
output from reversing phase when
the input is forced up to 9V below the
negative supply. Input protection
resistors safely limit the current to
less than 3mA when the inputs are
forced to this extreme.
LT1783
2.7V to 18V
300µA
800µV
80nA
0.1nA
8nA
200V/mV
90dB
90dB
0V to 18V
8mV
90mV
0.42V/µs
1.25MHz
500pF
20nV/√Hz
0.14pA/√Hz
An Over-The-Top
Sensing Application
The circuit of Figure 2 utilizes the
Over -the-Top capabilities of the
LT1782. The 0.2Ω resistor senses the
load current while the op amp and
NPN transistor form a closed loop,
making the collector current of Q1
proportional to the load current. The
2k load resistor converts the current
into a voltage. The positive input voltage, VBATT, is not limited to the 5V
supply of the op amp and could be as
high as 18V. The LT1783 draws only
0.1nA of current through the inputs
when it is powered down, extending
the battery life.
output stage current is ±18mA and
the output swing is guaranteed within
8mV of ground and 90mV of the positive rail with no load. A problem
encountered with other op amps in
some applications is that as the output approaches the rail or ground,
the gain degrades. The data sheet
typically claims the output can swing
to within a few millivolts of the rail,
but the input overdrive required to
achieve this can be quite high. This is
not the case with the LT1782/LT1783;
a few millivolts of input overdrive is
enough to swing the outputs to their
guaranteed value. Figure 1 shows the
typical output saturation voltage vs
input overdrive.
Conclusion
Linear Technology’s first SOT-23 op
amps are not just space savers, they
are tiny, tough and boast a variety of
features that all join to make the
LT1782/LT1783 truly general purpose amplifiers. These new products
will enhance the superior line of
operational amplifiers from Linear
Technology.
OUTPUT SATURATION VOLTAGE (mV)
100
OUTPUT
HIGH
VBATT
200Ω
5V
10
0.2Ω
200Ω
OUTPUT
LOW
1
LOAD
0
10
20
30
40
50
INPUT OVERDRIVE (mV)
ILOAD
+
LT1782
2N3904
–
VOUT = 2Ω(ILOAD)
0V TO 4.3V
2k
60
Figure 1. Output saturation voltage vs input
overdrive
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
Figure 2. Positive-supply-rail current-sense application
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DESIGN FEATURES
3ppm/°C Micropower Reference Draws
Only 50µA and Operates on 2.8V
by John Wright
Introduction
The new LT1461 bandgap voltage reference is a low dropout reference that
has superb temperature coefficient,
tight output tolerance and low supply
current. In addition, high output current together with unmeasurable
thermal regulation make the LT1461
ideal for micropower precision regulator applications. To achieve these
characteristics, new wafer trim techniques were developed and extensive
characterization of thermal hysteresis
and long-term drift were performed.
that can be used to turn off the reference during high output current
conditions; it also has thermal shutdown or current-limit protection for
the device during overload. Table 1
summarizes the performance specifications of the new reference.
How It’s Really Done
In order for the factory to trim the
output voltage to a very tight tolerance, four pins of the package are
dedicated to trimming R1. This trim
allows the LT1461 output voltage to be
adjusted to better than 0.02%. The
final specification, however, is a conservative 0.04%, because the part is
measured with different factory testers
and a safety margin or guardband is
applied for thermal hysteresis.
The idea of this guardband is to
ensure that the parts will remain 0.04%
accurate even after they are exposed
to temperature excursions of –40°C to
85°C. When a part is trimmed to high
accuracy, its output voltage is valid
only for the mechanical stress conditions that are present at the time of
trim. The amount of stress will change
with temperature because the thermal
coefficient of expansion is different
How It’s Done
At the heart of the LT1461 is the
bandgap core: Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 of
Figure 1. Q1 and Q2 generate a ∆VBE,
whereas Q3 and Q4 provide the
attendant VBE. The bandgap voltage
is impressed across R1, and R2 provides gain for numerous voltage
options. I1 provides patented curvature compensation that modifies the
∆VBE current and greatly improves
the temperature coefficient. High output current and excellent load
regulation are the result of careful
layout techniques and four betas of
current gain from Q5 through Q8.
The LT1461 has a shutdown control
2 V+
Q11
Q15
D7
Q14
Q16
Q9
Q10
Q12
Q13
Q8
J1
Q7
Q17
6 VOUT
R3
R1
R6
SHDN 3
Q18 Q19
Q22
D6
Q21
Q13
Q3
Q6
Q20
Q24
C1
R7
D2
I1
R2
Q5
Q2
D3
What the User Knows
R5
D5
D4
Q4
D1
between the plastic package and the
silicon chip. When the part returns to
its “trimmed” temperature, there is no
guarantee that the stress returns to
exactly the initial amount, and the
output voltage will be slightly different. This difference is called “thermally
induced hysteresis shift” or “thermal
hysteresis” and is expressed in parts
per million (ppm). Figure 2 shows a
distribution plot of thermally induced
hysteresis shift on parts that were
cycled several times between –40°C
and 85°C. The LT1461 initial accuracy
is specified broadly enough to include
this hysteresis shift.
The output trim on the LT1461
uses all available pins on the package,
so the temperature coefficient must
be trimmed at wafer sort. If a reference has its bandgap voltage trimmed
to the proper target or “bogie,” it will
have a near zero temperature drift.
The problem is that the bogie moves
with process variations and can differ
from die to die. The solution is to
measure the temperature coefficient
at wafer sort and use an algorithm to
correct the bandgap voltage. This
requires wafer sorts at 75°C and 25°C
to establish the drift. For example, if
the bandgap voltage is trimmed to
1.2000V at 75°C and it moves 300µV
to 1.2003V at 25°C, this corresponds
to a –5ppm/°C drift. Once the TC is
known, the bandgap voltage can easily be trimmed for zero TC by adjusting
R3. The TC distribution widens when
the parts are assembled in plastic
because of stress on Q3 and Q4.
Q1
R4
4 GND
1461 SS
Users encounter several problems
when applying precision references
and again thermal hysteresis is front
and center. When a reference is soldered into a PC board, the elevated
temperature and subsequent cooling
Figure 1. Simplified schematic of the LT1461
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Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN FEATURES
Long-Term Drift
Table 1. LT1461 performance, VIN = VOUT + 0.5V
Parameter
Output Voltage
Output Voltage
Temperature Coefficient
Conditions
Min
Typ
Max
LT1461A
–0.04
———
0.04
LT1461B
–0.06
———
0.06
LT1461C
–0.08
———
0.08
LT1461D
LT1461A
–0.15
———
0.15
———
———
3
LT1461B
———
———
7
LT1461C
———
———
12
———
———
20
———
12
30
ppm/mA
LT1461D
–40°C to 125°C
Sourcing
0mA to 50mA
Load Regulation
Units
%
ppm/°C
Dropout Voltage
Sourcing 1mA
———
0.13
0.3
V
Supply Current
No Load
———
35
50
µA
Output Voltage Noise
0.1Hz ≤ f ≤ 10Hz
———
8
———
ppmP-P
Long-Term Drift of
Output Voltage
Thermal Hysteresis
———
———
60
——— ppm/√kHr
–40°C to 85°C
———
65
———
cause stress that is very different
from stress that is caused by automatic testers at the LTC factory.
Additionally, there is now an unrelieved mechanical bias on the
leadframe when the solder cools. Figure 3 shows the SO-8 LT1461 output
shift of about –100ppm after IR soldering onto a PC board. After 336
hours, as the stress relaxes, the output voltage typically shifts about
45ppm back toward the initial state
where the device was factory trimmed.
Another type of stress is caused if
a PC board is flexed, for example
when held in a card cage. The stress
on the board is transmitted directly to
ppm
the IC package. A simply way to reduce
the stress-related shifts is to mount
the reference near the short edge of
the PC board or in a corner. The board
edge acts as a stress boundary, or a
region where the flexure of the board
is minimum. The package should be
mounted so that the leads absorb the
stress and not the package. (See “Understanding and Applying Voltage
References,” in Linear Technology
VII:2 and VII:3, June and August,
1997, for more information on the
effects of stress on voltage reference
performance and techniques for mitigating it.)
Some manufactures are now touting
phenomenal long-term drift specifications. Long-term drift cannot be
extrapolated from accelerated high
temperature testing. This erroneous
technique gives drift numbers that
are wildly optimistic. The only way
long-term drift can be measured is
over the time interval of interest. The
erroneous technique uses the
Arrhenius Equation to derive an
acceleration factor from elevated temperature readings. The equation is:
EA
AF = e K
•
(T11 – T21 (
where: EA = Activation Energy (assume 0.7)
K = Boltzmann’s Constant
T2 = Test Condition Temperature in
Kelvin
T1 = Use Condition Temperature in
Kelvin
To show how absurd this technique is, compare the LT1461 data.
Typical 1000hr long-term drift at 30°C
= 60ppm. The typical 1000hr longterm drift at 130°C = 120ppm. From
the Arrhenius Equation the acceleration factor is:
AF = e
(
(
1
0.7
1
•
–
0.0000863 303 403
= 767
The erroneous projected long-term
drift is:
120ppm/767 = 0.156ppm/1000hr at 30°C
For a 2.5V reference, this corresponds to a 0.39µV shift after 1000 hr.
continued on page 36
12
20
18
WORST-CASE HYSTERESIS
ON 35 PIECES
10
– 40°C TO 25°C
14
12
NUMBER OF UNITS
NUMBER OF UNITS
16
85°C TO 25°C
10
8
8
6
4
6
2
4
2
0
–100
0
–300
– 80
– 60
– 40
– 20
0
20
HYSTERESIS (ppm)
40
60
Figure 2. –40°C to 85°C hysteresis
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
80
100
1461 G17
–200 –100
0
100
200
OUTPUT VOLTAGE SHIFT (ppm)
300
Figure 3. Typical distribution of output
voltage shift after soldering onto PC board
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DESIGN FEATURES
Smart Battery Charger Is
Programmed via the SMBus
by Mark Gurries
Introduction
Smart Batteries are becoming prevalent in the laptop computer world
because they offer an industry-standard, high accuracy “gas gauge”
system. These batteries conform to a
set of specifications that define the
operation of all of the components in
a Smart Battery powered System
(SBS). The battery has an embedded
controller that tracks information
related to battery charging and use.
This information is provided to the
system via a serial, 2-wire SMBus
interface, a variant of the I2C™ bus in
wide use today. The battery can be
queried for information on remaining
capacity, total capacity, time remaining at current rate of discharge,
discharge current, terminal voltage
and so on. Since most Smart Batteries can become a master on the bus,
the battery can control the Smart
Battery Charger for optimal charging.
The LTC1759 Smart Battery Charger
IC is designed to be controlled by this
type of Smart Battery. In addition, a
safety signal provided by the battery
indicates whether the battery is
present in the system and warns of
possible thermal problems or battery
faults if other systems fail. The
emphasis of the SBS is on safety, ease
of use and compatibility.
There are two types of Smart Battery Chargers (SBCs) allowed by the
SBS specifications. A Level 2 charger,
such as the LTC1759, is a slave on
the SMBus and responds to commands from the battery to control
charging. A Level 3 charger can be
either a slave or a master on the
SMBus, since it can query the battery
to determine charging information.
The SBC is independent of batterychemistry type. It provides charging
current and charging voltage in
response to commands from the battery. Charge termination is sent by
the battery as either zero current or
I2C is a trademark of Philips Electronics N.V.
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zero voltage or as “terminate charge”
alarm. Charging will also terminate if
the safety signal indicates that the
battery is not present or the battery is
too hot to charge safely.
The LTC1759 is a complete Level 2
Smart Battery Charger. It is able to
autonomously charge a Smart Battery by receiving and interpreting
commands over its built-in SMBus
interface. The LTC1759 adheres to all
the safety requirements of the Smart
Battery Charger Specification, including 3-minute timers that protect from
SMBus communication failures and
overcharging of Li-Ion batteries during wake-up mode—features absent
from some competing solutions. Hardware-programmable current and
voltage limits provide an additional
level of protection that cannot be
altered by errant software.
The LTC1759 manages all the complexities of a Smart Battery Charger
System. This is appealing to those
who wish to support Smart Batteries
without getting involved in all the
details. SBC compliance, safety,
output voltage accuracy, SMBus
accelerators and LTC’s patented wall
adapter current limiting are just a few
of the features that make this an
outstanding part.
LTC1759 Smart Battery
Charger Features
The LTC1759 merges the intelligence
of a Smart Battery Charger with a
constant-current (CC), constant-voltage (CV), current mode switching
battery charger circuit. The LTC1759
incorporates the following features:
❏ 0.5% output voltage accuracy at
room temperature, 1% over
temperature range
❏ 5% output current regulation
❏ An external, resistor-programmable voltage limit, with four
ranges that support stacking of
the popular 4.2V battery cell
❏ An SMBus programmable output
voltage, from 2.465V to 21V in
either 16mV or 32mV granularity,
depending upon the programmed
voltage range (10-bit resolution)
❏ An external, resistor-programmable current limit with four
limits: 1A, 2A, 4A and 8A
❏ An SMBus programmable output
current with 10-bit resolution
over all ranges
❏ LTC’s patented programmable AC
wall adapter current limiting to
maximize charge rate
❏ Low VIN-to-VOUT operation
(dropout < 0.5V)
❏ 95% efficiency
❏ Compliant with Smart Battery
Charger Specification Rev. 1.0,
Level 2
❏ Low power consumption when AC
is not present, while remaining
compliant with all Smart Battery
Charger requirements for status
and interrupts
❏ Built-in SMBus accelerators
(similar to the LTC1694)
❏ New 36-pin narrow SSOP
package (0.209˝ wide)
Circuit Description
The LTC1759 is composed of a synchronous, current mode, PWM
step-down (buck) switcher controller,
a charger controller, two 10-bit DACs
to control charger parameters, a
thermistor Safety Signal decoder,
hardware voltage and current limit
decoders and an SMBus controller
block (refer to Figure 1).
The Smart Battery or system
controller programs both constantcurrent (CC) and constant-voltage (CV)
limit values though commands over
the SMBus interface. The buck converter uses N-channel MOSFETs for
switches, allowing low cost, high
efficiency operation. It also provides
reverse battery discharge protection
and ultralow dropout operation. A
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN FEATURES
VCC
8V
UV 7
8 INFET
+
+
–
–
0.2V
+
BAT1 31
6.7V
–
VCC 32
1.2V
1 BOOST
–
SDB 5
+
PWM
LOGIC
1.3V
ONE
SHOT
SYNC 4
2 TGATE
SHDN
200kHz
OSC
3 SW
8.9V
34 GBIAS
S
35 BGATE
Q
R
36 PGND
SLOPE COMP
33 BOOSTC
–
+
B1
+
C1–
+
CA2–
VC 27
CLN 10
VREF
1k
CA1–
28 PROG
75k
–
+
VA
+
–CL1
AC_PRESENT
COMP1 11
21 DCDIV
22 DCIN
1V
10µA
–
PWR_FAIL
INTB 13
+
20k
812.5k
23 BAT2
65k
SDA 14
72k
10-BIT
VOLTAGE
DAC
CHGEN 12
SCL 15
612k
26 VSET
CHARGER
CONTROLLER
RNR 20
VREF
290k
–
VDD
THERM 19
29 SENSE
BAT1
+
CLP 9
92mV
+
30 SPIN
+
AGND 6
THERMISTOR
DECODER
SMBus
CONTROLLER
LIMIT
DECODER
13
10-BIT
CURRENT
DAC
DGND 18
24 ILIMIT
25 VLIMIT
17 ISET
16 VDD
Figure 1. LTC1759 block diagram
thermistor safety-detection circuit
isused to detect the presence of a battery and determine whether the temperature of the battery allows safe
charging to occur. Linear Technology’s
patented input current limiting feature is implemented, allowing the
fastest battery charge times without
overloading the wall adapter.
When a constant current value is
received via an SMBus transmission,
it is scaled and limited to a value
below that programmed by the RILIMIT
resistor. This modified value programs
the current DAC, setting the DC charging current. The current DAC is a
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
10-bit delta-sigma DAC that sinks
current from the PROG pin when
charging current is desired (refer to
Figure 2). Amplifier CA1 senses the
voltage drop across RSENSE and forces
this voltage across RS2 (200Ω); the
current through RS2 is sent through a
current mirror as a pull-up current
on the PROG pin. The matching of
current through RS2 with current from
the PROG pin by CA2 implements
constant-current operation. Since the
delta-sigma DAC output is a series of
pulses, a smoothing capacitor is
needed to filter the pulses into DC.
When a constant-voltage value is
received via an SMBus transmission,
the value is scaled, adjusted to cancel
offset and limited to a value below
that programmed by the RVLIMIT resistor. This modified value programs the
voltage DAC, setting the DC charging
voltage. The voltage DAC drives the
bottom of an internal voltage divider
network. The top of the voltage divider
is connected directly to the battery
output though the BAT2 pin. A voltage error amplifier, VA, compares the
divided battery voltage on the VSET
pin with an internal, precision reference voltage. The output of the VA
amp is configured as a current source
that can drive the PROG pin. The
PROG pin is a current summing node
for both current and voltage feedback
loops. The VA loop steals control of
the current feedback loop when the
battery voltage exceeds the programmed voltage, forcing the charging
current down to the level required to
maintain the programmed voltage.
Since the ∆Σ DAC output is in the
form of a series of pulses, a smoothing network is needed to filter the
pulses into DC at the VSET pin. The
capacitors C5 and C4 form a capacitance divider that provides some
filtering of the feedback voltage from
the battery while filtering the DAC
pulses.
The LTC1759 requires two power
supplies. The PWM circuitry runs
directly off the wall adapter supply
through the VCC pin, whereas the
logic functions run independently
from the VDD supply. This allows the
PWM circuitry to go into 40µA micropower shutdown mode when AC power
is removed, allowing the logic and
SMBus activity to remain alive, as
required by Intel’s ACPI standards.
This separate supply also allows the
logic and SMBus to run at 3V or 5V
depending on the system designer’s
needs. To minimize power draw of the
LTC1759 logic, the logic circuits are
driven by a clock circuit that shuts
down when there is no activity and
wakes up to service SMBus activity or
to generate interrupts. Once the
request is serviced, the LTC1759 goes
back to sleep.
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DESIGN FEATURES
R1
15.8k
R2
1k
RCL, 0.033Ω
Q1
AC
ADAPTER
INPUT
≥17VDC
+
C15
VDD
22µF
50V 3.3V OR 5V
Al
C9
C14
0.1µF
0.1µF
7
16
4
5
12
RVLIMIT, 33k
25
RILIMIT, 33k
24
18
RSET, 3.83k
C11, 1µF
17
28
C13, 0.33µF
R4, 1.5k
C12, 0.68µF
R7, 1k
27
11
6
20
19
VDD
RWEAK
475k
14
RNR
10k
RUR
1k
15
13
LTC1759
UV
DCIN
VDD
DCDIV
SYNC
INFET
SDB
VCC
CHGEN
CLP
VLIMIT
CLN
ILIMIT
TGATE
DGND
BOOSTC
ISET
GBIAS
PROG
BOOST
VC
SW
COMP1
AGND
BGATE
SPIN
RNR
SENSE
THERM
BAT1
SDA
BAT2
SCL
VSET
INTB
PGND
22
21
C2
0.47µF
8
R3
499Ω
SYSTEM
POWER
C1
1µF
32
C16
22µF
9
10
2
C5, 2.2µF
C4, 0.1µF
Q2
33
34
1
D2
D2
C6
0.68µF
L1
15µH
RSENSE
0.025Ω
+
Q3
3
D1
C3
22µF
SMART
BATTERY
35
30
29
RS1, 200Ω
31
RS2, 200Ω
23
R6
68Ω
26
36
C8
0.047µF
C7
0.015µF
INTB
SCL
SDA
D1: MBRS130LT3
D2: FMMD7000
L1: SUMIDA CDRH127-150
SMBus
TO
HOST
Q1: Si3457DV
Q2, Q3: Si3456DV
Figure 2. A complete 4A Smart Battery Charger
Shutdown of the PWM through the
CHGEN–SDB pin combination occurs
when the AC power is lost or the
battery is removed. The LTC1759
detects the AC loss through the DCDIV
pin. This threshold is usually set just
below the lowest valid voltage of the
wall adapter. AC power status may be
read by the system over the SMBus.
The UV pin is only used to put the
PWM circuitry into micropower shutdown and is connected directly to the
wall adapter supply.
Inductor selection is not critical
with the design, since the loop
response of the charger is intentionally set to be very slow. Almost any
value will work, with a practical lower
limit of about 15µH. Lower inductance will create higher ripple
currents, requiring a lower ESR
capacitor on the output. It will also
cause cosmetically ugly discontinuous switching operation to occur at
higher currents than necessary.
Output capacitor selection is not
ESR critical but must be able to handle
all of the ripple current from the
charger. Do not count on the battery
to carry the ripple current because
the effective impedance as seen by
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the charger can be much greater than
the ESR of the capacitor. Many battery
packs have built-in series-protection
MOSFETs that raise the ESR of the
battery. There may also be optional
power-routing MOSFETs in series
with the battery in multiple-battery
configurations, further increasing the
battery ESR. From the charger point
of view, the output capacitor ESR can
be as high as 1Ω, allowing a wide
range of capacitor options. When
using a resistive or electronic load,
some instability may occur. This can
be fixed by adding a temporary 300Ω
resistor in series with the PROG pin
capacitor or putting a 10µF capacitor
on the output. Avoid using ceramic
capacitors in the output because they
tend to make noise when the switcher
goes discontinuous and starts to drop
cycles at audible frequencies under
very light load currents—use tantalums instead. Input capacitance
selection is driven by the input ripple
current of the charger, which is usually 1/2 of the maximum output
current. For a 4A charger, a 22µF,
50V ceramic is recommended, since
this part can typically handle 2A of
ripple current. It also takes up the
least amount of space and can cost
less than other capacitor options.
Current protection, from battery to
wall adapter, is provided by a
P-channel MOSFET (Q1). A voltage
comparator monitors the voltage
across the MOSFET and will turn it
off when the wall adapter drops to
less than 200mV above the battery
voltage. Although an inexpensive
diode could be used instead of this
MOSFET, the MOSFET only adds
100mV to the already low 0.4V dropout mode of operation without
producing extra heat. During startup without a battery, the MOSFET
parasitic diode is used to allow wall
adapter power to reach the VCC pin
and power up the PWM control
circuitry.
Primary compensation is done on
the PROG pin; however, DAC pulse
filter requirements determine the
effective value of the capacitor. Pulse
ripple current must be less than 20mV
or loop jitter will occur, giving the
appearance of loop instability at light
charging currents. The V C pin
capacitor’s primary function is to provide soft-start support. There must
always be a resistor of 1.5k in series
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DESIGN FEATURES
RVLIMIT
Nominal Charging Voltage (VOUT) Range
Granularity
0
2465 < VOUT < 8432mV
16mV
10k
2465 < VOUT < 12,640mV
16mV
33k
2465 < VOUT < 16,864mV
32mV
Both SCL and SDA have dynamic
pull-up circuits that improve the rise
time on systems with significant
capacitance on the two SMBus signals. The dynamic pull-up circuitry
detects a rising edge on SDA or SCL
and applies 2mA–5mA pull-up to VDD
for approximately 1µs (Figure 3). This
action allows the bus to meet SMBus
rise-time requirements with as much
as 150pF on each SMBus signal. The
improved rise time will benefit all of
the devices that use the SMBus line,
especially devices that use the I2C
logic levels.
100k
2465 < VOUT < 21,056mV
32mV
AC Adapter Current Limiting
Open or tied to VDD
2465 < VOUT < 32,768mV
32mV
Wall adapters are typically AC/DC
converters with 20V output at 3A–4A
of load current. When a notebook is
running, all of the available current
from the wall adapter may be
consumed by the system, leaving no
power for charging the battery. However, as soon as the system’s power
requirements drop below the wall
adapter’s current limit, battery charging can resume. In order to recharge
the battery in the shortest time possible, the recharging should start as
soon as there is any current leftover
from the system. The ideal situation
is when the sum of battery charging
current and the system current is
just below the wall adapter’s current
limit. The LTC1759 incorporates a
patented battery charger input current-limiting function that allows the
charger current to be automatically
Table 1. ILIMIT trip points and ranges
RILIMIT
Nominal Charging Current Range
Granularity
0Ω
0 < I < 1023mA
1mA
10k
0 < I < 2046mA
2mA
33k
0 < I < 4092mA
4mA
Open (>250k) or shorted to VDD
0 < I < 8184mA
8mA
Table 2. VLIMIT trip points and ranges
with the VC pin capacitor to allow
proper shutdown.
From a thermal standpoint, the
output voltage remains approximately
0.5% accurate over the battery temperature charging range. This higher
precision allows a higher charge
capacity in the battery, and, more
importantly, will cause fewer problems with voltage-based charge
termination circuitry in the battery.
SMB Alert
The SBS standards allow for the option
of an open-collector interrupt line to
notify the host when a critical power
event has occurred. This feature is
called SMBALERT#. The LTC1759
implements this feature by asserting
the INTB line low when AC power is
lost or restored and when a battery is
physically installed or removed. INTB
is cleared when the host reads the
LTC1759 status register or performs
a successful read of the SMBALERT#
Response address of the LTC1759.
Setting Safe Voltage
and Current Ranges
The LTC1759 voltage/current ranges
are programmed with two external
resistors, RVLIMIT and RILIMIT, as shown
in Tables 1 and 2. These limits prevent
communication errors or errant software from causing the charger to
damage the battery. At the same time,
the variable granularity allows for
better control of voltage and current
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in the lower ranges. The voltage limits
are ROM mask programmable.
SMBus Acceleration
Unlike the I2C bus, which allows the
use of variable pull-up currents on
the bus signals, the SMBus pull-up
current is specified as a maximum of
350µA. In larger systems, the capacitance load on the SMBus can cause
rise-time violations (TRISE > 1µs),
which could result in a communication failure. This is especially the case
when I2C devices are mixed with
SMBus-compliant devices on the same
bus. The thresholds of the I2C bus
receivers are generally higher than
their SMBus cousins and are more
sensitive to slow rise times.
WITH
ACCELERATOR
WITHOUT
ACCELERATOR
Figure 3. SMBus accelerator operation (RPULLUP = 15k, CL =150pF, VDD = 5V)
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DESIGN FEATURES
reduced to avoid overloading the wall
adapter, yet still charge the battery
with the maximum available current.
Table 3. Safety signal resistance ranges
Safety Signal Resistance
ChargerStatus Bits
SAFETY_UR = 1
SAFETY_HOT = 1
BATTERY_PRESENT = 1
SAFETY_HOT = 1
BATTERY_PRESENT = 1
All Safety Bits Clear
BATTERY_PRESENT = 1
SAFETY_COLD = 1
BATTERY_PRESENT = 1
SAFETY_OR = 1
SAFETY_COLD = 1
BATTERY_PRESENT = 0
0Ω–500Ω
500Ω–3k
3k–30k
30k–100k
>100k
VDD
VDD
RWEAK
475k
1%
Description
Improved
Safety Signal Sensing
Underrange
Hot
Ideal
Cold
Overrange
LTC1759
VDD
RNR_SELB
RUR_SELB
RNR
VDD
RNR
10k RUR
1% 1k
1% THERM
+
SAFETY_COLD
–COLD
RTHERM
+
TOTAL
PARASITIC
CAPACITANCE
MUST BE LESS
THAN 75pF
–UR
+
SAFETY_UR
THERM
LATCH
SAFETY_HOT
–HOT
+
HYSTERESIS
SAFETY_OR
–OR
Figure 4. LTC1759 safety-signal-monitoring circuitry
TESTING RTHERM = 33k
WITH RNR = 10k
TESTING RTHERM = 33k
WITH RWEAK = 475k
Figure 5. Testing a cold thermistor
10
RTHERM IS NOT
TESTED WITH
RUR SINCE IT
TESTED COLD
The Safety Signal in most Smart Batteries is a resistor or thermistor to the
battery’s negative terminal. The SBC
must sense the resistance of the Safety
Signal to ground and determine if the
battery is connected and whether it is
safe to charge. The SBC must report
the status of the Safety Signal during
an SMBus read of the ChargerStatus()
register. Table 3 shows the five ranges
of resistance and what the ChargerStatus() bits must indicate.
The LTC1759 monitors the safety
signal using a state machine to control the thermistor sensing scheme of
Figure 4. This approach allows the
LTC1759 to conserve power while
supporting battery-presence detection and safety signal reporting when
AC is not present. It also provides
high noise immunity at the underrange-to-hot trip point.
The state machine sequentially
switches RWEAK, RNR and RUR to pullup against the battery’s internal
thermistor. The resulting voltage is
monitored by the comparators and
used to determine the thermistor’s
operating range. The state machine is
able to sample the safety signal with
all three resistors in 100µs. This
allows the thermistor to be read during an SMBus read requesting Safety
Signal status and then shut down to
conserve power. A system using a
fixed 10k pullup for all ranges will
waste current when AC is not present.
RWEAK is used to continuously monitor battery presence; it uses very little
current and allows detection of the
insertion or removal of a battery
regardless of whether or not AC is
present. RNR is used to determine if
the safety range is cold or ideal. RUR is
used to determine if the safety range
is hot or underrange. The testing of
RTHERM is shown for a cold and underrange thermistor in Figures 5 and 6,
respectively. When AC is present, the
state machine continuously tests the
continued on page 18
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN FEATURES
LTC1755 Smart Card Interface
Provides Inductorless Boost
and Signal-Level Translators by Steven Martin
Introduction
Already common in Europe and some
of the Far East, smart cards may soon
replace magnetic stripe cards in the
U.S. The LTC1755 provides a simple
and complete solution to smart card
interfacing. Requiring only two bypass
capacitors and one charge pump
capacitor, the LTC1755 interfaces
seamlessly between a smart card
socket and a host microcontroller. It
is designed to comply with all of the
available electrical standards for
smart card interfacing. Figure 1 shows
the LTC1755 in a typical smart card
application.
Figure 2 shows the block diagram
of the LTC1755. An internal power
management unit delivers a selectable 3V or 5V regulated output voltage
to the smart card. Two unidirectional
and three bidirectional communication channels provide the signal
translation necessary to interface from
a microcontroller at one supply voltage to a smart card at another supply
voltage. A smart card detection channel observes the state of a mechanical
switch and delivers the information
to the microcontroller after an appropriate debounce period. Finally, the
LTC1755 provides all fault detection
necessary to comply with both the
EMV and ISO-7816-3 smart card
standards. These include
short-circuit detection,
smart card removal during a
transaction and undervolt- PRES 1
age and overtemperature
faults. In the event of a fault PWR 2
condition, the smart card is
CS 3
properly deactivated and an
alarm output notifies the
microcontroller of the fault. NC/NO 4
Power
Management Unit
voltage to the smart card. For example, if the input supply voltage is
3.3V and the required smart card
DVCC
23 CARD
22 ALARM
21 READY
DC/DC CONVERTER
AND
CONTROL LOGIC
GND 5
Unlike solutions that require
an external inductor and
current sense resistor to
generate power to the card,
the power management section of the LTC1755 requires
only a small flying capacitor
to provide step-up capability.
Sense circuitry determines
how much input voltage is
available and decides
whether to step the input
voltage up or down to provide the required output
24 5V/3V
τ
20 DVCC
VIN 6
19 C –
VCC 7
18 C +
*
*
*
*
*
*
17 AUX1IN
AUX1 8
16 AUX2IN
AUX2 9
15 DATA
I/O 10
RST 11
14 RIN
CLK 12
13 CIN
*DYNAMIC PULL-UP CURRENT SOURCE
Figure 2. LTC1755 block diagram
3.3V
SMART CARD
PRESENT SWITCH
1
2
3
4
C3
10µF
GND
C2
10µF
6
7
VCC
8
AUX1
SMART CARD
5
9
AUX2
10
I/O
11
RST
12
CLK
PRES
5V/3V
PWR
CARD
CS
ALARM
NC/NO
READY
GND
DVCC
VIN LTC1755 C –
VCC
C+
AUX1
AUX1IN
AUX2
AUX2IN
I/O
DATA
RST
RIN
CLK
CIN
24
23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
C1
0.68µF
µCONTROLLER
voltage is 5V, the LTC1755 will operate as a charge pump to deliver the
higher voltage; if the input supply
voltage is 5V and the required smart
card voltage is 3V, it will automatically step down to provide the correct
output voltage.
The entire LTC1755, including the
power management circuitry, is
designed to consume low power under
light or no load conditions. This can
result in considerable power savings
for battery-powered applications. Furthermore, the shutdown current is
only several microamperes.
Figure 1. LTC1755 typical application
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
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DESIGN FEATURES
To prevent high inrush current
during turn-on, an automatic softstart feature increases the supply
voltage of the smart card at a fixed
rate. This is particularly important
when the LTC1755 is in step-up mode
because the input current will be
twice the output current. With a 10µF
output capacitor, the rise time of
approximately 2ms limits the input
current to 50mA, thus preventing
start-up problems. The READY pin
tells the microcontroller when the
output voltage has reached its final
value. This signal also enables the
communication channels, thereby
ensuring proper compliance with
smart card standards. Figure 3 shows
the card supply voltage ramp as well
as the READY pin indicating that the
output has reached its final state.
During smart card deactivation,
either by direct user control or by
automatic fault deactivation, the
LTC1755 discharges the smart card
supply pin in under 250µs. Rapid
discharge is important to ensure that
the card’s supply is completely
removed in the event of smart card
removal during a transaction. This
requirement is specified in various
smart card standards.
Bidirectional
Communication Channels
There are three bidirectional channels for communicating with the smart
card. These channels, which are opendrain I 2 C™ style, provide level
translation, direction arbitration and
short-circuit protection. Unlike analog approaches, the LTC1755 uses
control logic with active pull-up and
pull-down devices on both sides of
the channel. This allows the required
source and sink currents to be
achieved independent of the input
voltage on the transmitting side of the
channel. The direction-control logic
arbitrates which side of the channel
is the talker and which side is the
listener. Upon receipt of a low on one
side of the channel, that side becomes
the talker and the other side becomes
the listener. Transmission in the
opposite direction is instantly blocked
to prevent the channel from latching.
Once the talker side of the channel is
relinquished, both sides return high
and either side is a candidate to
become the next talker.
To meet the stringent rise-time
requirements imposed by ISO-78163 while keeping power dissipation
and VOL to a minimum, an accelerator
circuit (see Figure 4) is built into each
pull-up current source on the bidirectional channels. Normally, a small
current, ISTART, pulls each bidirectional pin to its respective power
supply rail. An open-drain transistor
can easily overcome ISTART whenever
a low is asserted. When the low is
relinquished, ISTART slowly begins to
charge the pin toward its rail again.
An internal edge-rate-detection comparator notices that the node is moving
upward and fires a large pull-up cur-
+
VREF
ISTART
–
δV
δt
BIDIRECTIONAL PIN
Figure 4. Dynamic pull-up current source
rent source to assist. Once the larger
current source begins to enhance the
edge rate of the node, the decision to
enhance is reinforced, thereby effecting a dynamic form of hysteresis.
After the node has reached the power
supply rail, the comparator resets
and only ISTART is available again.
Figure 5 shows the waveform of a
bidirectional pin. The 10% to 90%
rise time is on the order of 150ns.
Unidirectional
Communication Channels
There are two unidirectional channels on the LTC1755 that provide the
level-shifted clock and reset signals
used by the smart card for synchronization. The clock channel is designed
specifically for high speed and can
faithfully transmit a 5MHz signal.
Both of these channels are disabled
and provide a valid low before the
smart card supply voltage has reached
its final value. Once the card supply
voltage is valid, these channels will
simply transmit the signals present
READY
2V/DIV
BIDIRECTIONAL
PIN
500mV/DIV
CARD SUPPLY
VOLTAGE
1V/DIV
500µs/DIV
Figure 3. Smart card supply voltage and READY upon activation
12
100ns/DIV
Figure 5. Bidirectional pin with dynamic pull-up
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DESIGN FEATURES
at their respective inputs. To comply
with smart card standards, the RST
pin is always brought low before the
CLK pin upon deactivation.
Smart Card
Detection Channel
The LTC1755 incorporates the only
card detection solution that does not
require additional de-bounce circuitry
or software. This channel detects the
presence of a smart card by forcing a
small current and monitoring the voltage on a mechanical detection switch.
Once a smart card is detected, the
channel starts the debounce timer.
The presence of a card is reported to
the microcontroller only if the card
has been present for a minimum of
40ms. Existing solutions provide
either no debounce capability or minimal (only tens of microseconds)
debounce time. These solutions
require additional software or hardware to mask out the transients
associated with the physical insertion of the smart card. Also, unlike
other solutions, the switch-sense current is generated by the LTC1755 so
no external components are required.
Once a valid card indication occurs,
the channel alerts the microcontroller by asserting the CARD pin.
For maximum flexibility the smart
card detection channel can be programmed to respond to either a
normally open or normally closed
switch. A built-in XOR gate is used as
a controlled inverter to provide this
function.
Fault Detection
and Avoidance
Specifications relating to faults on
the smart card pins are very stringent. For example, ISO7816-3 (section
1.4.8) specifies that the smart card
socket must be capable of surviving a
“metal plate” connection between any
or all contacts without damage. To
accommodate these fault conditions,
the LTC1755 uses voltage sensing on
the low impedance pins to detect if
they are being forced to an inappropriate level. For example, the voltage
on the smart card supply pin, VCC, is
compared with an internal reference
to determine if a short circuit exists.
If a fault persists for a prescribed
period, the LTC1755 automatically
deactivates the smart card and asserts
the ALARM output. The small timeout
period prevents false errors from
plaguing the microcontroller. The
clock and reset channels respond to
faults in a similar way. The digital
levels on the outputs of these channels (CLK and RST) are compared to
those being presented at their inputs.
If these signals differ for several
microseconds, a fault is declared and
the smart card is deactivated. Again,
the ALARM output alerts the microcontroller that an electrical fault
exists. In both cases, since the smart
card becomes deactivated, there is no
power available to deliver excessive
current for a prolonged period.
The three bidirectional pins on the
smart card side of the channel are
protected against short circuits to the
smart card supply voltage by means
of a constant-current pull-down output. Rather than a simple pull-down
transistor to transmit a low to the
smart card, these channels use a
current source implementation. The
3.5mA current source provides
enough current to meet the edge rate
and VOL requirements while limiting
the current available during a fault.
The available smart card standards
specify that no more than 5mA flow
during faults on these pins. Of course,
short circuits to ground on these channels are indistinguishable from a
normal signal and must be detected
by the data-error checking routines.
Conclusion
The LTC1755, designed specifically
for smart card applications, provides
all of the necessary level shifting and
power circuitry to interface with a
smart card socket. To further reduce
board level complexity, it includes a
smart card detection channel with
built-in debounce circuitry. Since the
LTC1755 provides all of the necessary smart card interface functions,
only bypass capacitors and one charge
pump capacitor are required for
operation. Under most circumstances
the operation of the LTC1755 is simple
and provides a nearly transparent
path to the smart card. However, when
an electrical error condition occurs
the LTC1755 responds quickly by
powering down the smart card and
alerting the microcontroller.
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DESIGN FEATURES
LT1306: Synchronous Boost
DC/DC Converter Disconnects
Output in Shutdown
by Bing Fong Ma
Introduction
Step-up or boost DC/DC converters
traditionally suffer from a lack of true
shutdown capability. The output of a
boost converter is connected to the
input through the inductor and diode;
when the device is powered down, the
load is still connected to the input
source, presenting a possible discharge path. Even some synchronous
boost converters suffer from this limitation. The unique configuration of
the LT1306’s internal 2 ampere switch
and rectifier overcomes this limitation. When the LT1306 is shut down,
the output is disconnected from the
input, eliminating the discharge path.
Additionally, the LT1306 can regulate the output when the input voltage
exceeds the output voltage. This is
useful for generating a 5V supply
from a 4-cell alkaline battery. When
fresh, the battery voltage measures
about 6.5V, but when depleted, the
battery voltage is only 4V. A simple
boost converter output will follow the
input voltage only when the battery
voltage exceeds 5V, while a step-down,
or buck converter will lose regulation
when the battery voltage falls below
5V. The LT1306 regulates the output
to 5V in both situations.
Lastly, the LT1306 controls inrush
current. A user installing a new battery need not worry about high inrush
current as the battery initially charges
the output capacitor. The LT1306
provides a clean solution to a difficult
problem.
The LT1306 packs all these features in an SO-8 package. The
VC
VIN
1
7
–
1.65V
+
In the block diagram of Figure 1, the
PWM control path is shown enclosed
within the dashed line. The free-running frequency of the oscillator is
trimmed to 340kHz. The main power
switch, Q1, is turned on at the trailing edge of the clock pulse. Q1 is
switched off when the switch current
(sensed across resistor RS) exceeds a
DCM
CONTROL
VIN
UVLO
CAP
6
+
A1
gm
FB 2
Circuit Description
IRECT > 0
A5
1.235V
constant frequency, current mode
PWM device runs at 340kHz and features Burst Mode™ operation to
maintain high efficiency at light loads.
No-load quiescent current is 160µA,
while the device consumes just 9µA
in shutdown. The device can be externally synchronized to frequencies
between 425kHz and 500kHz.
X3
–
–
X4
A3
VB
5
S/S 8
SHDN
REF/BIAS
Q
Q1
X4
X2
R
+
I
RECTIFIER RECT
+V
–
CE2
3
COUT
A2
SENSE
AMP
RS
–
300kHz OSC
SYNC
S
+
+
Σ
OUT
Q2
A4
L1
SW
X1
–
+
C1
IDLE
+
RAMP
COMPENSATION
D1
X5
CLK
PWM CONTROL
4
GND
SHUTDOWN
DELAY
Figure 1. LT1306 block diagram
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Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN FEATURES
0
VIN – 0.1V VIN
VO
Figure 2. DC transfer characteristics of the
mode control comparator plotted with VO as
an independent variable; VIN is considered
fixed.
programmed level set by the error
amplifier output, VC, and the compensation ramp. This is current mode
control. The switch current limit is
reached when VC clamps at 1.28V.
The error amplifier output
determines the peak switch current
required to regulate the output voltage. VC is therefore a measure of the
output power. At heavy loads, the
peak and average inductor current
are both high. The LT1306 operates
in continuous-conduction mode
(CCM) as VC increases. As the load
decreases, the average inductor
current moves lower with an accompanying decrease in the peak inductor
current. If the inductor current
returns to zero within each switching
D1
C1
1µF
L1
10µH
CIN1
22µF
CIN2
0.1µF
VIN
SW
S/S
CAP
CIN1 = AVX TAJC226M010
(207) 282-5111
CO1 = AVX TPSE227M010R0100
CIN2, CO2 = CERAMIC
L1 = COILTRONICS CTX10-3
(561) 241-7876
D1 = MOTOROLA MMBD914LT1
(800) 441-2447
R1
768k
LT1306
FB
R3
118k
CP
68pF
CO1
220µF
GND
VC
CZ
68nF
VO
R2
249k
CO2
1µF
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VIN
maintain a given output. Chip supply
current also becomes a small fraction
of the total input current.
The synchronous rectifier is represented as an NPN transistor, Q2, in
the block diagram. A rectifier driver,
X5, supplies variable base drive to Q2
and controls the voltage across the
rectifier. The supply voltage for driver
X5 is generated locally with the bootstrap circuit comprising D1 and C1.
When switch Q1 is on, the bootstrap
capacitor C1 is charged from the input to the voltage V IN – V D1(ON)
– VCESAT1. The charging current flows
from the input through D1, C1 and
Q1 to ground. After Q1 is switched
off, the node SW goes above VO by the
collector–emitter saturation voltage
of Q2. D1 becomes reverse biased and
the CAP pin voltage is approximately
VO + VIN – VD1(ON). The capacitor C1
supplies the Q2 base drive. The charge
consumed is replenished during Q1’s
on-interval.
90
VIN = 4.2V
VIN = 3.6V
85
80
75
VIN = 1.8V
70
VIN = 2.6V
65
VO = 5V
60
1
Figure 4. Single Li-Ion cell to 5V converter
VO + 0.1V
Figure 3. DC transfer characteristics of the
mode control comparator plotted with VIN as
an independent variable; VO is considered
fixed.
VOUT
5V/1A
OUT
SINGLECELL
Li-Ion
STEPDOWN
EFFICIENCY (%)
MODE
STEPDOWN
BOOST
MODE
cycle, the converter is said to operate
in discontinuous-conduction mode
(DCM). Further reduction in load
moves VC towards its lower operating
range.
Hysteretic comparator A3 determines if VC is too low for the LT1306
to operate efficiently. As VC falls below
the Burst Mode threshold, VB, comparator A3 turns off Q1. Any energy
stored in the inductor is delivered to
the output through the synchronous
rectifier. The LT1306 draws only
160µA from the input in this idle
state. As the output voltage droops,
VC rises above the upper trip point of
A3. The LT1306 again wakes up and
delivers power to the load. If the load
remains light, the output voltage will
rise and VC will fall, causing the converter to idle again. Power delivery
therefore occurs in bursts. The burst
frequency is dependent on the input
voltage, the inductance, the load current and the output filter capacitance.
The output voltage ripple in Burst
Mode operation is higher than those
in CCM and DCM operation. Burst
operation increases light load
efficiency because the higher peak
switch current characteristic of Burst
Mode operation allows the converter
to deliver more energy in each
switching cycle than possible with
cycle-skipping DCM operation. Thus,
fewer switching cycles are required to
BOOST
10
100
LOAD CURRENT (mA)
1000
Figure 5. Efficiency of Figure 4’s circuit
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DESIGN FEATURES
VIN = 2.5V
ILOAD
0.5A/DIV
VS/S
5V/DIV
VSW
5V/DIV
VIN = 3.6V
IL
1A/DIV
IL
(INDUCTOR CURRENT)
2A/DIV
VOUT (AC)
0.1V/DIV
VO
5V/DIV
1ms/DIV
1ms/DIV
Figure 6. Start-up to shutdown transient response: note that the input
start-up current is well controlled and that the output falls to zero in
shutdown (IL is also the input current, as the inductor is at the input).
In boost operation, X5 drives the
rectifier Q2 into saturation with constant forced β. X5 ceases supplying
base current to Q2 when the inductor
current falls to zero. If VIN is greater
than VO, Q2 will not be driven into
saturation. Instead, the collector–
emitter voltage of Q2 increases so
that the inductor voltage reverses
polarity as Q1 switches. Since the
inductor voltage is always bipolar,
volt-second balance can be maintained regardless of the input voltage.
The LT1306 can therefore operate as
a step-down converter.
During start-up, the inductor voltage of a boost converter with a diode
rectifier remains positive until the
output voltage rises to one diode voltage below the input voltage. A high
input-transient current spike invariably results. In the LT1306, the
inductor voltage reverses polarity
every switching cycle. This, with cycleby-cycle current limit, eliminates the
inrush current spike.
The rectifier voltage drop depends
on both the input and output voltages.
Efficiency in step-down operation is
approximately that of a linear regulator. For sustained step-down
operation, the maximum output current will be limited by the package
thermal characteristics.
A hysteretic comparator inside
driver X5, which detects the crossover between the input and the output
voltages, signals the driver to provide
appropriate base current to the rectifier. DC transfer characteristics of
this comparator are illustrated in Figures 2 and 3.
16
Figure 7. Transient response of the converter in Figure 4 with a 50mA
to 800mA load step
Single Li-ion Cell
to 5V Converter
When shutdown is activated
(VS/S < 0.45V), all circuits except synchronous rectifier Q2 and its driver
X5 are shut off. If VO is above VIN, Q2
will be driven into saturation. Stored
inductive energy flows to the output
through the saturated rectifier. As VO
falls below VIN, X5 reduces the base
drive to Q2, which increases the
rectifier voltage. The inductor voltage
is now negative. The inductor current
continues to fall to zero. The driver X5
then turns off and the rectifier Q2
becomes an open circuit. The LT1306
consumes 9µA from the input in
shutdown.
The LT1306 is ideally suited for generating 5V output from a single Li-ion
cell. The circuit shown in Figure 4 is
capable of supplying 1A of DC output
current. The value of resistor R3 is
chosen so that the overall feedback
loop gain crosses 0dB before the righthalf plane (RHP) zero. The capacitor
CZ and the resistor R3 form a low
frequency zero in the loop response.
CP ensures adequate gain margin
beyond the RHP zero. The value of R3
is inversely proportional to the error
amplifier gm. Low gm and high R3
improve converter load-transient
response.
D1
CIN1 = AVX TAJC226M010
(207) 282-5111
CO1 = AVX TPSE227M010R0100
C1 = AVX TAJA105K020
L1 = MURATA LQN6C4R7
(814) 237-1431
D1 = CENTRAL CMDSH2-3
(516) 435-1110
C1
1µF
L1
4.7µH
VIN =
1.8V–3V
CIN1
0.1µF
CERAMIC
CIN2
22µF
VIN
SW
CAP
2V/500kHz
S/S
VOUT
3.3V/1A
OUT
R1
412k
LT1306
FB
CO2 1µF
CERAMIC
R2
249k
R3
91k
CP
39pF
CO1
220µF
GND
VC
CZ
5.6nF
Figure 8. 2-cell to 3.3V output converter
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DESIGN FEATURES
90
D1
VIN = 3V
EFFICIENCY (%)
85
80
VIN
3.6V–6.5V
CIN1 = AVX TAJC226M010
(207) 282-5111
CO1 = AVX TPSE227M010R0100
C1 = AVX TAJA105K020
L1 = COILTRONICS CTX10-3
(561) 241-7876
D1 = MOTOROLA MMBD914LT1
(800) 441-2447
C1
1µF
L1
10µH
75
VIN = 1.8V
70
CIN1
22µF
VIN = 2.5V
65
VIN
CIN2
0.1µF
CERAMIC
SW
S/S
R1
768k
LT1306
FB
60
10
100
1000
LOAD CURRENT (mA)
VOUT
5V/1A
OUT
VO = 3.3V
1
CAP
Figure 9. Efficiency of Figure 8’s circuit
R2
249k
R3
75k
In applications where high pulse
current (>1A) is drawn from the output, a large electrolytic capacitor
(>1000µF) is typically used to hold up
the output voltage during the load
pulse. Higher output filter capacitance lowers the dominant pole
frequency of the gain response so that
higher loop gain (that is, a higher
value of R3) is required in the compensation network to give the same
loop crossover frequency.
Efficiency curves of the converter
are shown in Figure 5. Figure 6 shows
a start-up-to-shutdown transient. The
converter operates in step-down mode
until the output voltage exceeds the
input voltage (2.5V). The mode switching is evidenced by the sudden
decrease in the SW node voltage. The
input start-up current is well controlled at the switch current limit of
2.2A. The converter then produces a
CP
22pF
CO1
220µF
GND
VC
10,000
CO2
1µF
CERAMIC
CZ
15nF
Figure 10. 4-cell to 5V output converter
steady state output of 5V. Pulling the
S/S pin low for at least 33µs disconnects the load. Figure 7 shows the
load transient response of the
converter.
2-Cell to 3.3V Converter
Figure 8 depicts an externally synchronized 2-cell to 3.3V converter
running at 500kHz. A 4.7µH inductor
is used to take advantage of the higher
switching frequency. Driving the S/S
pin with a clock generator, which has
a 2V amplitude and less than 20ns of
rise time, synchronizes the LT1306.
Synchronization is positive-edge triggered. Diode D1 is a CMDSH2-3
Schottky diode. Compared to a junc-
tion diode, a Schottky diode increases
the bootstrap voltage and affords
higher operating headroom for rectifier Q2. In situations where reduced
headroom is acceptable (such as over
the commercial temperature range),
a 1N4148 or 1N914 diode can also be
used. The converter efficiency is plotted in Figure 9.
4-Cell to 5V Converter
Due to its ability to establish voltsecond balance with VIN greater than
VO, the LT1306 is also suited for
applications where the battery voltage straddles the desired output
voltage. One such example is the 4-cell
to 5V converter shown in Figure 10.
VIN = 4.8V
VSW
5V/DIV
IL
0.5A/DIV
VO
0.1V/DIV
2µs/DIV
Figure 11. Continuous conduction mode switching
waveforms in boost mode; VIN = 4.8V, VO = 5V
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DESIGN FEATURES
VIN = 6V
VIN 6V–4V STEP
5V/DIV
VSW
5V/DIV
VSW
5V/DIV
IL
0.5A/DIV
IL
500mA/DIV
VO
50mV/DIV
VO
0.1V/DIV
0.5ms/DIV
2µs/DIV
Figure 13. Transient response of the circuit
in Figure 10 with step input (4V–6V)
Figure 12. Continuous conduction mode switching
waveforms in step-down mode; VIN = 6V, VO= 5V
Conclusion
90
VIN = 4.8V
The LT1306 is a complete synchronous boost DC/DC converter offering
a set of features that few competing
devices are able to match. The unique
rectifier design results in a boost/
step-down converter that disconnects
the load in shutdown and controls
input current during startup.
85
EFFICIENCY (%)
The continuous-conduction mode
switch-node voltage and the inductor
current for step-down operations (Figure 12) are contrasted with those of
boost operation in Figure 11. Note
that in step-down mode, when the
rectifier is conducting, the switch
voltage exceeds VIN. Input step (from
4V to 6V) transient response is illustrated in Figure 13. The converter
efficiency is plotted in Figure 14.
80
VIN = 3.6V
75
70
VIN = 6V
65
VO = 5V
60
1
Authors can be contacted
at (408) 432-1900
10
100
1000
LOAD CURRENT (mA)
10,000
Figure 14. Efficiency of Figure 10’s circuit
Smart Battery, continued from page 10
thermistor every 100µs. When AC is
not present, RNR and RUR thermistor
testing occurs only when a battery is
first inserted or removed or during a
transmission requesting Safety Signal status.
The underrange detection scheme
is a very important feature of the
LTC1759. As can be seen from Figure
6, the RUR/RTHERM trip point of 0.333
• VDD (1V) is well above the 0.047 •
VDD (140mV) threshold of a system
using a 10k pull-up for all ranges. A
system using a 10k pull-up would not
be able to resolve the important
underrange-to-hot transition point
with a modest 100mV of ground offset
between the battery and thermistordetection circuitry. Such offsets are
anticipated when charging at normal
current levels.
Conclusion
The LTC1759 complies with the Smart
Battery Charger standard published
by the Smart Battery System organi18
TESTING RTHERM = 420Ω
WITH RUR = 1k
TESTING RTHERM = 420Ω
WITH RNR = 10k
TESTING RTHERM = 420Ω
WITH RWEAK = 475k
Figure 6. Testing an underrange thermistor
zation, in which Linear Technology is
a promoter and voting member. The
charger controller also complies with
Intel’s ACPI standard by being able to
respond to system commands even
when there is not AC wall adapter
power. The charger offers the widest
current and voltage range of opera-
tion compared to competitive parts.
Feature for feature, it also offers the
highest integration possible today with
a Smart Battery Charger. The
LTC1759 achieves significant cost
savings, performance and safety
advantages over other Smart Battery
Chargers currently available.
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN FEATURES
Versatile Dual Hot Swap Controller/
Power Sequencer Allows
by Bill Poucher
Live Backplane Insertion
Introduction
When a circuit board is inserted into
a live backplane, the supply bypass
capacitors on the board can draw
large transient currents from the
backplane power bus as they charge.
These transient currents can destroy
capacitors, connector pins and board
traces and can disrupt the system
supply, causing other boards in the
system to reset. The new dual-channel LTC1645 Hot Swap controller is
designed to ramp a circuit board’s
supply voltages in a controlled manner, preventing glitches on the system
supply and damage to the board.
The LTC1645’s two channels can
be set to ramp up and down separately, or they can be programmed to
rise and fall simultaneously, ensuring power supply tracking at the two
outputs. Using external N-channel
pass transistors, the supply voltages
can be ramped at a programmable
rate. Two high-side switch drivers
control the external N-channel FET
gates for supply voltages ranging from
1.2V to 12V. Programmable electronic
circuit breakers protect against shorts
at either output. The LTC1645 is available in the 14-pin and 8-pin SO
packages. The 14-pin version additionally provides a system reset signal
and a second “spare” comparator to
indicate when board supply voltages
drop below user-programmable levels. It also has a fault signal to indicate
an overcurrent condition and a timer
pin to create a delay before ramping
up the supply voltages and deasserting
the system reset signal.
Typical Hot Swap Application
Figure 1 shows a typical Hot Swap
application using the LTC1645. Q1
and Q2 control the board’s power
supplies, RSENSE1 and RSENSE2 provide
RSENSE1
0.025Ω
VCC1
12V
current fault detection and R1 and
R2 prevent high frequency oscillation. By ramping the gates of the pass
transistors up and down at a controlled rate, the transient surge
current (I = C • dv/dt) drawn from the
main backplane supply is limited to a
safe value when the board makes
connection.
The timing for the board is shown
in Figure 2. When power is first applied
to the chip, the gates of the FETs
(GATE1 and GATE2 pins) are pulled
low. Once the ON pin rises at time
point 1, the LTC1645 must complete
a timing cycle before the GATE pin
voltages are allowed to rise. This allows
the connector pins to finish bouncing
and make a solid connection. CTIMER
charges to 1.23V with a 2µA current
source, setting the delay timing cycle
equal to t = (1.23V • CTIMER)/2µA. In
this example, the undervoltage lock-
Q1
+
VOUT1
12V/1A
CLOAD1
R1
10Ω C1
0.01µF
50V
RSENSE2
0.01Ω
VCC2
5V
Q2
+
CLOAD2
PC BOARD
BACKPLANE
R2
10Ω
14
13
12
VCC1 SENSE1 GATE1
C2
0.01µF
50V
3
1
2
VCC2 SENSE2 GATE2
COMP+
10
ON/OFF
FAULT
4
ON
LTC1645
(14-LEAD)
FAULT
COMPOUT
4.99k
1%
8
9
11
GND
CTIMER
0.33µF
1.82k
1%
10k
1%
6
FB
5
TIMER
VOUT2
5V/2.5A
RESET
1.3k
1%
7
RESET
GND
Figure 1. LTC1645 typical application
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
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DESIGN FEATURES
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
ON
8
9
1.5µs
VCCn – VSENSEn
VCCn
UNDERVOLTAGE
LOCKOUT
1.23V
1.23V
1.23V
1.23V
TIMER
GATEn
FB TRIP
POINT
VOUTn
~20µs
~20µs
RESET
Figure 2. Typical insertion and electronic-circuit-breaker timing
out circuit discharges the TIMER pin
and prevents both channels from
turning on when VCC1 < 2.23V or VCC2
< 1.12V (time point 2). At time point 4,
the timing cycle is completed and the
GATE pins are pulled up by an internal 10µA current source; the voltage
at GATE1 begins to rise with a slope
of 10µA/C1 and the voltage at GATE2
begins to rise with a slope of 10µA/
C2. The supply voltages follow their
respective gate voltages minus the
ON
20
external FET threshold voltage; the
ramp time for each supply is (VCCn •
Cn)/10µA.
Voltage Monitor
and Spare Comparator
The 14-pin version of the LTC1645
provides two precision comparators
for monitoring input or output voltage levels. Both comparators have a
1.238V reference as the negative input
and have open-drain outputs that
require an external pull-up
to generate a logic high. The
LTC1645
spare comparator monitors
+
COMP+ and releases COMPGATE2 ON/OFF
OUT immediately whenever
2.0V
–
COMP+ is above 1.238V. The
FB comparator releases
RESET one timing cycle after
+
the FB pin rises above
GATE1 ON/OFF
1.238V (Figure 2, time points
0.8V
–
5 and 6) and includes a glitch
filter to prevent system resets during short negative
–
BOTH GATES
transients on the FB pin.
FAST PULLDOWN
The filter time is 20µs for
+
0.4V
large transients (greater
than 150mV) and up to
100µ s for smaller 10µ A
Figure 3. On-pin operation
transients.
In Figure 1, the COMPOUT pin has
been tied to the FB pin so that RESET
will not release until both output
supplies remain above their programmable voltages for one timing cycle.
Electronic Circuit Breaker
The LTC1645 features an electronic
circuit breaker function that protects
against short circuits or excessive
output current. Load current for each
supply is monitored by a sense resistor between the supply input and sense
pin of the chip. The circuit breaker
trips whenever the voltage across the
sense resistor exceeds 50mV for more
than 1.5µs. When the circuit breaker
of either channel trips, both GATE
pins are immediately pulled to ground
and the external FETs are quickly
turned off (Figure 2, time point 7).
When the ON pin is cycled off and on
(time point 8), the circuit breaker resets
and another timing cycle starts. If the
circuit breaker feature is not required,
short the SENSE pins to their
respective VCC pins.
Authors can be contacted
at (408) 432-1900
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN FEATURES
BOTH CURRENT LIMITS: 5A
Q1
1/2 Si4920DY
0.01Ω*
VIN1
3.3V
D1
1N4002
Q2
1/2 Si4920DY
0.01Ω*
VIN2
2.5V
10Ω
D2
1N4002
VOUT1
3.3V/2.5A
+
CLOAD1
D3
MBR0530T1
VOUT2
2.5V/2.5A
+
CLOAD2
10Ω
14
4.99k
1%
13
12
VCC1 SENSE1 GATE1
10
TRIP
1.82k POINT:
1%
3V
4
1.18k
1%
1
VCC2 SENSE2 GATE2
COMP+
ON
COMPOUT
LTC1645
(14-LEAD)
FB
TIMER
GND
11
0.33µF
1.37k
1%
8
9
6
5
FAULT
RESET
10k
0.1µF
25V
3
2
1.18k
1%
1.37k
1%
7
RESET
*WSL1206-01-1%
VISHAY DALE (408) 241-4588
Figure 4. Ramping 3.3V and 2.5V up and down together
The ON Pin
The ON pin has multiple thresholds
to control the ramping up and down
of the GATEn pins. Figure 3 is a block
diagram showing operation of the ON
pin. If the ON pin voltage is below
0.4V, GATE1 and GATE2 are immediately pulled to ground. While the
voltage is between 0.4V and 0.8V,
GATE1 and GATE2 are each pulled to
ground with a 40µA current. Between
0.8V and 2V, the GATE1 10µA pullup is turned on after one timing cycle,
but GATE2 continues to be pulled to
ground with a 40µA current. When
the voltage exceeds 2V, both the
GATE1 and GATE2 10µA pull-ups
are turned on one timing cycle after
the voltage exceeds 0.8V.
Power Supply Tracking
and Sequencing
Some applications require that the
difference between two power supply
voltages not exceed a certain value.
This requirement applies during
power-up and power-down, as well
as during steady state operation; often
this is done to prevent latch-up in a
dual-supply ASIC. Other systems
require one supply to come up after
another, for example, when a system
clock needs to start before a block of
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
logic. Typical dual supplies or backplane connections may come up at
arbitrary rates depending on load
current, capacitor size, soft-start rates
and so on. Traditional solutions can
be cumbersome or require complex
circuitry to meet the necessary
requirements.
The LTC1645 provides simple
solutions to power supply tracking
and sequencing needs. The LTC1645
can guarantee supply tracking by
ramping the supplies up and down
together and allows nearly any combination of supply ramping to satisfy
various sequencing specifications.
Figure 4 shows an application ramping VOUT1 and VOUT2 up and down
together. The ON pin must reach 0.8V
to turn on GATE1, which ramps up
VOUT1 and VOUT2. The spare comparator pulls the ON pin low until VCC2 is
above 2.3V, and the ON pin cannot
reach 0.8V before VCC1 is above 3V.
VIN1
5V/DIV
VIN2
5V/DIV
VOUT2
5V/DIV
VOUT1
5V/DIV
TIMER
2V/DIV
RESET
5V/DIV
Figure 5. Input, output and control signals of Figure 4’s circuit
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DESIGN FEATURES
0.005Ω*
BOTH CURRENT LIMITS: 10A
VIN2
3.3V
IRF7413
+
CLOAD2
0.005Ω*
VIN1
5V
IRF7413
+
CLOAD1
D1
1N4148
10Ω
13k
1%
10k
R1
47.5k
1%
13
12
0.01µF
25V
1
VCC1 SENSE1 GATE1
10
2
3
VCC2 SENSE2 GATE2
+
COMP
ON
R2
10k
1%
LTC1645
(14-LEAD)
COMPOUT
4
RESET
FAULT
TIMER
10k
10k
28k
1%
8
14.7k
1%
RHYST
681k
FB
FAULT
VOUT1
5V
5A
10Ω
0.01µF
25V
14
VOUT2
3.3V
5A
10k
1%
9
RESET2
6
5
10k
1%
GND
11
RESET
7
0.33µF
* LRF1206-01-R005-J
IRC (361) 992-7900
Figure 6. Ramping up 5V followed by 3.3V
Thus, both input supplies must be
within regulation before a timing cycle
can start. At the end of the timing
cycle, the output voltages ramp up
together. If either input supply falls
out of regulation or if an overcurrent
condition is detected, the gates of Q1
and Q2 are pulled low together.
Figure 5 shows an oscilloscope
photo of of Figure 4’s circuit in action.
On power-up, VOUT1 and VOUT2 ramp
up together. On power-down, the
LTC1645 turns off Q1 and Q2 simultaneously. Charge remains stored on
CLOAD1 and CLOAD2 and the output
voltages will vary depending on the
loads. D1 and D2 turn on at ≈1V
(≈0.5V each), ensuring that VOUT1
never exceeds VOUT2 by more than
1.2V, while D3 guarantees that VOUT2
is never greater than VOUT1 by more
than 0.4V. Barring an overvoltage
condition at the input(s), the only
time these diodes can conduct current is during a power-down event,
and then only to discharge CLOAD1 or
CLOAD2. In the case of an input overvoltage condition that causes excess
current to flow, the circuit breaker
will trip if the current limit level is set
appropriately.
Figure 6 shows the LTC1645 configured to ramp up VOUT1 before VOUT2.
CLOAD1 is initially discharged and D1
is reverse-biased, thus the voltage at
the ON pin is determined only by VCC1
through the resistor divider R1 and
R2. If VCC1 is above 4.6V, the voltage
at the ON pin exceeds 0.8V and VOUT1
ramps up one timing cycle later. As
VOUT1 ramps up, D1 forward-biases
and pulls the ON pin above 2V when
VOUT1 ≈ 4.5V. This turns on GATE2
and VOUT2 ramps up. The FB com-
parator monitors VOUT2, and the spare
comparator monitors VOUT1 with RHYST
creating ~50mV of hysteresis. To
ensure that VOUT1 does not fall much
below VOUT2 as the load capacitors
discharge during power down, a
Schottky diode can be connected from
VOUT2 to VOUT1.
Conclusion
Designing a traditional hot-insertion
system requires a significant effort by
an experienced analog designer. An
easy way to reduce the design effort is
to use the LTC1645, which offers
charge-pump gate drivers, a user
programmable delay, voltage level
monitors and other specialized
features. With the LTC1645, it is
easy to create reliable Hot Swap
systems.
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DESIGN FEATURES
LTC1642: a Hot Swap Controller
with Foldback Current Limiting
and Overvoltage Protection by Pat Madden
Hot Circuit Insertion
limit the charging current when a
board is plugged into a hot backplane. In this application, the
backplane voltage is 12V, but the
chip will operate with any supply
voltage between 3.0V and 16.5V. When
power is first applied to VCC, the chip
holds Q1’s gate at ground. After a
programmable debounce delay, an
internal 25µA current source begins
to charge the external capacitor C2,
generating a voltage ramp of 25µA/
C2 V/s at the GATE pin. Because Q1
acts as a source follower while its gate
ramps, the current charging the
board’s bypass capacitance, CLOAD, is
limited to 25µA • CLOAD/C2. An internal charge pump supplies the 25µA
gate current, ensuring sufficient gate
drive to Q1. Resistor R3 protects
against high frequency FET oscillations; capacitor C1 sets the debounce
delay, ∆TD, before the GATE pin voltage begins ramping: ∆TD(ms) = 615 •
C1(µF). The ON pin is the chip’s control input; when it is below 1.22V, the
When a circuit board is inserted into
a “hot” (powered) backplane, its supply bypass capacitors can draw large
currents from the backplane power
bus as they charge. These currents
can cause glitches on the backplane
supply voltage, resetting other boards
in the system, and can even destroy
edge connectors. Like other members
of Linear Technology’s Hot Swap family, the LTC1642 limits the charging
current drawn by a board’s capacitors, allowing safe circuit board
insertion into a hot backplane. It also
offers additional capabilities, some
new to the Hot Swap family: a maximum recommended operating voltage
of 16.5V, a programmable electronic
circuit breaker with foldback current
limiting, overvoltage protection to 33V,
and a voltage reference and uncommitted comparator.
In the circuit shown in Figure 1,
the LTC1642 and the external NMOS
pass transistor Q1 work together to
OPTIONAL
R2
0.01Ω
F1
Q1
FDS6630A
= 13.7V R7
12.4
1%
R3
100Ω
R4
R1
51k 4
9
6
ON
14 330Ω
GATE
7
FB
OV
RESET
16
VCC
15
SENSE
LTC1642
FAULT
CRWBR
GND
BRK TMR RST TMR
8
BACKPLANE
A short circuit from Q1’s source to
ground can destroy the FET; it can
also reset every other card in the
system if the backplane supply voltage droops due to the excessive
current. The LTC1642 can protect
against both threats by limiting the
current drawn from the backplane
supply during a short circuit and by
opening an electronic circuit breaker
before Q1 overheats. The addition of
analog current limiting to the standard electronic circuit breaker
function can improve system performance. For example, consider a
system of plug-in cards powered by a
backplane supply. The sudden
removal of one card causes the backplane voltage to ring at a fairly high
frequency, due to the step change in
supply current. This ringing signal
appears differentially across the sense
CLOAD
C5
0.1µF
R6
127k
OVERVOLTAGE 1%
VOUT
12.5V/2A
Short-Circuit Protection
2
R8
95.3k
1% UNDERVOLTAGE
R9 = 10.6V
12.4k
1%
1
ON
Q3
MCR12DC
Q2
C4
2N2222
0.01µF
3
R5
30k
PLUG-IN CARD
5
∆TD
C2
0.047µF
C1
0.33µF
R10*
220Ω
VOLTAGE
12V
GATE pin is held at ground. If ON/
OFF control of the LTC1642 is not
required, ON should be tied to VCC
through a 50k current limiting resistor. Typical waveforms at card
insertion are shown in Figure 2.
RST_TMR
dv 25µA
=
dt
C2
GATE
C3
GND
0.068µF
VOUT
* ONLY REQUIRED WITH SENSITIVE GATE SCRs
NOT NEEDED WITH MCR12
Figure 1. Typical LTC1624 Hot Swap application
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Figure 2. Typical waveforms at card insertion
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DESIGN FEATURES
6
1
ILOAD
2
3
45 7
8
ILIMIT
0A
GATE
GATE
VOUT
BRK TMR
1.23V
FAULT
ON
RST TMR
1.23V
Figure 3. Current-limit and circuit-breaker
timing
resistor on each remaining card. It
can trip the circuit breaker, even
though there is no fault on the card.
To prevent this, the designer may
attempt to slow the circuit breaker by
connecting a lowpass RC network
across the sense resistor, only to find
that one problem has been exchanged
for another: if there is a short circuit
on the card, the backplane voltage
droops too much before the circuit
breaker opens. The LTC1642 shines
in this application. It regulates the
load current within a few microseconds after a short circuit, before the
backplane can droop, but can delay
opening the circuit breaker for milliseconds or more, which allows the
ringing to decay, resulting in almost
complete immunity from backplane
noise.
The external components that provide short-circuit protection are
included in Figure 1. R2 senses the
load current, and, if its voltage drop
reaches the internal threshold, the
current-limit servo loop adjusts the
GATE pin voltage such that Q1 acts
as a constant current source. R2’s
voltage limit decreases as the output
voltage decreases; this “foldback”
tends to keep Q1’s power dissipation
constant in current limit. The output
voltage is sensed at the FB pin. When
FB is grounded, the internal threshold voltage is 20mV, but this increases
gradually to 50mV with increasing
voltage at FB. To compensate this
servo loop R4 is added in series with
C2; to ensure stability, the product
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1/(2 • π • R4 • C2) should be kept
below the loop’s unity-gain frequency
of 125kHz and C2 should be larger
than Q1’s input capacitance, CISS.
The values shown in Figure 1, C2 =
0.047µF and R4 = 330Ω, work well
with the Fairchild FDS6630A and
similar MOSFETs. The FAULT output, when asserted, signals that the
circuit breaker has opened. Capacitor C3 and resistor R5 set the delay,
∆TBRK, between the onset of current
limiting and the circuit breaker opening: ∆TBRK(ms) = [62 – R5(kΩ)] • C3(µF).
R5 slows C3’s discharge, ensuring
that the circuit breaker eventually
opens in the event of repetitive, but
short, current faults. These are dangerous because the slow voltage ramp
at Q1’s gate means that it continues
to dissipate substantial power for
some time after the current limit
clears. Larger values of R5 protect
against lower duty cycle shorts, at the
cost of greater uncertainty in the circuit breaker delay time. A prudent
upper limit on R5 is 30k, which will
open the circuit breaker if the duty
cycle of a repetitive short exceeds
50%.
Typical waveforms during a short
circuit are shown in Figure 3. The
load is shorted to ground at time 1.
The GATE voltage drops until Q1
comes into regulation and the circuit
breaker timer (BRK TMR) starts. The
short is cleared at time 2, before the
breaker opens, and the GATE voltage
ramps back up. At time 3, the load is
shorted again and at time 4 the
breaker opens, pulling the GATE to
ground and asserting FAUL T.
Although the short is cleared at time
5, FAULT doesn’t go high until time 6
(it has an internal 10µA pull-up),
after the ON pin has been low for two
microseconds. At time 7, ON goes
high and the debounce timer
(RST TMR) starts; at time 8 the GATE
voltage begins ramping.
Powering Up in Current Limit
Ramping the GATE pin voltage indirectly limits the charging current to
I = 25µA • CLOAD/C2, where C2 is the
external capacitor connected to the
GATE and CLOAD is the load capaci-
1
2
3
4
5
6
GATE
VOUT
BRK TMR
1.23V
ON/FAULT
RST TMR
1.23V
Figure 4. Automatic restart following a short
circuit
tance. If the value of CLOAD is uncertain, a worst-case design can result
in needlessly long ramp times and it
may be better to limit the charging
current directly by allowing the
LTC1642 to power up in current limit.
This is perfectly acceptable as long as
the circuit breaker delay is long
enough to power up under worst-case
conditions.
Automatically
Restarting after
the Circuit Breaker Opens
The LTC1642 will automatically
attempt to restart itself after the circuit breaker opens if the FAULT output
is tied to the ON pin input. The resulting waveforms during a short circuit
are shown in Figure 4. As the figure
shows, pass transistor Q1’s duty cycle
is equal to the circuit breaker delay,
∆TBRK, divided by the sum of the circuit breaker and debounce delays,
∆TBRK + ∆TD. Q1 dissipates substantial power while acting as a constant
current source, so be sure its
maximum junction temperature is
not exceeded in worst-case conditions. For example, the FDS6630A
in Figure 1 dissipates 24W(= 2A •
12V) DC when the load is shorted to
ground. Its absolute maximum junction temperature, TJ, is 150°C, so an
ambient temperature, TA, of 85°C
requires an effective junction-to-ambient thermal resistance of 2.7°C/W
(= (TJ – TA)/(I • V)) or less. The effective
junction-to-ambient thermal resistance is the product of two factors:
θJA, the DC junction-to-ambient thermal resistance, which depends on the
package and board layout; and r(t), a
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DESIGN FEATURES
1
2
3
4
567
8
R2
0.01Ω
12V
VCC
C5
0.1µF
0V
OV
Q1
FDS6630A
R3
100Ω
1.22V
R4
0V
GATE
R10
82.5k
1%
16
VCC
4
LOCKOUT
= 10.1V
(FALLING)
0V
R11
11.3k
1%
VOUT
9
6
D1
1N4148
15
SENSE
ON
OV
CRWBR
GND
BRK TMR RST TMR
8
BACKPLANE
RESET
LTC1642
FAULT
VCC
2
0.41V
R8
95.3k
1%
R9
12.4k
1%
5
1
3
R5
30k
PLUG-IN CARD
C2
0.047µF
14 330Ω
GATE
7
FB
C1
0.33µF
C3
CRWBR
GND
0.068µF
1.22V
RST TMR
Figure 6. Increasing the undervoltage lockout threshold
ON
FAULT
Figure 5. Overvoltage timing
derating factor that depends on the
transistor’s duty cycle and “on” time.
Referring to the FDS6630A’s data
sheet, a 0.2in2 mounting pad of 2oz.
copper on an FR-4 board produces a
DC thermal resistance, θJA , of
105°C/W; referring to Figure A
(Transient Thermal Response Curve—
reproduced from the FDS6630A data
sheet), a 2ms circuit breaker delay
and a 200ms debounce delay produce an r(t) derating of 0.02; the overall
effective thermal resistance is 2.1°C/
W (= r(t) • θJA).
If FAULT is tied to ON, open-drain
logic should be used to drive the
node, and the external pull up resis-
tor at the ON pin may be omitted,
because FAULT provides a weak
internal pull-up.
Overvoltage Protection
The LTC1642 can protect a card from
excessive voltage by quickly turning
off the pass transistor if the supply
voltage exceeds a programmable limit
and by triggering a crowbar SCR after
a programmable delay. The LTC1642
includes an internal regulator that
protects against supply voltages up
to 33V. It can also be configured to
automatically restart when an overvoltage condition clears.
The external components that provide overvoltage protection are
included in Figure 1. Resistors R6
and R7 set the overvoltage limit, timing capacitor C4 sets the delay before
the crowbar SCR Q3 fires and NPN
follower Q2 boosts the trigger current
into Q3. When VCC exceeds (1 + R6/
R7) • 1.22V, an internal comparator
trips and the chip cuts off Q1 by
pulling its gate to ground. For better
noise rejection, the propagation delay
through the comparator (on a low-tohigh transition at OV) increases from
20µs to 80µs as the differential input
voltage decreases from 175mV to 3mV.
Once the comparator trips, an internal 45µA current starts charging C4;
when it reaches 0.41V the current
increases to 1.5mA and Q2 quickly
triggers the SCR. The delay, ∆TSCR,
before the SCR triggers is ∆TSCR(ms) =
1
D = 0.5
r(t), NORMALIZED EFFECTIVE
TRANSIENT THERMAL RESISTANCE
0.5
0.1
0.1
0.05
0.05
P(pk)
0.02
0.01
0.02
0.01
0.005
RθJA(t) = r(t) • RθJA
RθJA = 125°C/W
0.2
0.2
t1
t2
TJ – TA = P • RθJA(t)
DUTY CYCLE, D = t1/t2
SINGLE PULSE
0.002
0.001
0.0001
0.001
0.01
0.1
1
10
100
300
t1, TIME (s)
Figure A. Fairchild FDS6630A transient thermal response curve (reproduced by permission, from the FDS6630A data sheet)
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DESIGN FEATURES
9 • C4(µF). Once C4 reaches 0.41V,
the LTC1642 latches off. After the
overvoltage clears, GATE and FAULT
remain at ground and the 1.5mA
charging current persists. To restart
after the overvoltage clears, hold the
ON pin low for at least 2µs and then
bring it high. The GATE voltage will
begin ramping up after a debounce
delay. The chip will restart if FAULT
and ON are connected together: the
GATE voltage begins ramping up one
debounce delay after the overvoltage
clears.
Figure 5 shows typical waveforms.
The OV comparator goes high at time
1, causing the chip to pull the GATE
pin to ground and start charging C4.
At time 2, before the capacitor reaches
0.41V, OV falls below 1.22V; C4 discharges and the GATE voltage begins
ramping after the debounce delay ends
at time 3. Another overvoltage begins
at time 4, and at time 5 C4 reaches
0.41V; FAULT goes low and the charging current increases to 1.5mA. Even
after OV falls below 1.22V at time 6,
GATE and FAULT stay low and
CRWBR continues to source 1.5mA.
FAULT goes high when ON goes low
momentarily at time 7; after a
debounce delay ending at time 8, the
GATE voltage begins ramping.
The LTC1642’s internal regulator
turns on when VCC exceeds 17.5V
and turns off when it drops below
17.0V. While on, it limits the internal
supply voltage to most of the chip’s
circuits to 15V. They will function
normally except that the GATE pin
charge pump is disabled. Set the
resistor divider at the OV pin to ensure
that GATE is grounded with VCC levels above 16.5V.
1
V1
V2
3
V1
4
5
V2
VOUT
V1
RST TMR
RESET
Figure 7. Undervoltage monitor waveforms
Undervoltage Lockout
An internal undervoltage lockout circuit keeps the GATE pin at ground
until VCC exceeds 2.73V. If it falls
below 2.5V, the lockout circuit pulls
GATE to ground and resets the circuit
breaker and SCR trigger. To set a
higher lockout voltage, tie the ON pin
to a resistor divider driven from VCC,
as shown in Figure 6. The chip remains
locked out until VCC exceeds (1 +
R10/R11) • 1.33V and will also lock
out if VCC falls below (1 + R10/R11) •
1.22V. If the resistive divider is used
in conjunction with automatic restart,
connect FAULT to ON through a diode, as shown. Otherwise FAULT’s
internal pull-up current, which varies with operating voltage and
temperature, will skew the lockout
threshold.
Undervoltage Monitor
In Figure 1, the LTC1642’s FB pin
monitors the output voltage; the chip
asserts RESET if the output falls below 1.22V • (1 + R8/R9) (10.6V for the
R8 and R9 values in the figure). RESET
goes high (it has a 10µA internal pullup) when the output has continuously
exceeded this voltage for one debounce
delay. Typical waveforms are shown
in Figure 7. On power-up, RESET is
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asserted; it remains low until one
debounce delay (∆TD(ms) = 615 •
C1(µF)) after FB crosses 1.22V at
time 1. At time 2, FB falls below 1.22V
and RESET is asserted immediately.
When FB exceeds its threshold at
time 3, the debounce timer starts, but
FB falls below 1.22V (time 4) before
the debounce delay ends and RESET
remains low. FB crosses 1.22V once
more at time 5 and RESET goes high
one debounce delay later. To improve
noise rejection, the FB comparator’s
propagation delay (on a falling edge at
FB) increases from 20µs to 80µs as
the differential input voltage decreases
from 175mV to 3mV.
Reference and
Uncommitted Comparator
The LTC1642’s internal voltage reference is buffered and brought out to
the REF pin. The buffer amplifier
should be compensated with a
capacitor connected between REF and
ground. If no DC current is drawn
from REF, 0.1µF ensures an adequate
phase margin, but larger capacitors
can be used for better suppression of
high frequency noise on REF.
The LTC1642 also includes an
uncommitted comparator with an
open drain output and a common
mode input range includes ground.
Conclusion
The LTC1642 is a rugged Hot Swap
controller that can handle positive
supplies up to 15V. It also provides
fast, effective current limiting even in
the presence of a noisy backplane
supply and can protect plug-in cards
against overvoltages up to 33V.
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DESIGN IDEAS
Cost and Space Efficient Backlighting
for Small LCD Panels
by Jim Williams
A generation of small, portable,
“palmtop” computing devices has
recently appeared. These products
have small LCD displays that use
cold cathode fluorescent lamps
(CCFLs) for backlighting. These lamps
require high voltage AC current drive.
Circuitry for this purpose should be
physically small, cost effective and
electrically efficient.
Figure 1 shows a design that meets
the above criteria. The configuration
is a current-fed resonant Royer
converter driven by an LT1317B
micropower switching regulator. The
LT1317B effects a switch-mode cur-
rent sink, supplying the required
Royer drive to close a loop at the FB
pin. This path includes the lamp and
a filter network that rectifies T1’s
high voltage AC output into DC. In
this case, the circuit’s operating point,
and hence, the lamp current, is set by
a potentiometer. Operating-point
variation can also be achieved by
voltage controlling the optional input, indicated on the schematic.1 With
the components shown, size is about
10mm (W) by 5mm (H) by 40mm (L).
The Shutdown pin facilitates circuit
turnoff, although removing power
from the VIN pin has similar results.
The closed loop operation yields
excellent line regulation while ensuring that lamp currents never violate
minimum or maximum values. These
characteristics allow operation
directly from the battery without
intensity variation, flicker or shortening of lamp life. Simplicity, low
component count, small size and cost
effectiveness make this circuit an
excellent choice for “palmtop” LCD
illumination.
1
Those finding this description intolerably brief
are directed to LTC Application Note 65, where
this circuit receives more scholarly attention.
BAV-99†
LAMP
DESIGN IDEAS
Cost and Space Efficient
Backlighting for Small LCD Panels
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3
10
T1
1
Jim Williams
5 4
3
2
2
1
750Ω
Q1
High Efficiency PolyPhase Converter
Combines Power from Multiple Inputs
................................................... 28
Wei Chen and Craig Varga
Isolated RS485 Transceiver
Breaks Ground Loops .................. 29
MBR0520
10µF
Mitchell Lee
Sharp Gain Roll-Offs Using the
LTC1562 Quad Operational Filter IC
(Part 3) ........................................ 31
Nello Sevastopoulos
Joseph G. Petrofsky
Q2
T1: TOKO BLC210
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L1: SUMIDA CD43-100
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Q1, Q2: ZETEX ZDT-1048 (DUAL)
(516) 543-7100
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DO NOT SUBSTITUTE
COMPONENTS
L1
100µH
+
V+
(3V–9V TYP)
SHUTDOWN
Using the LT1719 Comparator for
Low Dispersion Sine Wave to
Square Wave Conversion ............. 34
0.15µF*
VSW
VIN
LT1317B
10k
SHDN
VC
+
1µF
FB
GND
22k
0.1µF
MMB0914
820Ω**
2k
DIMMING
0V–3V
(OPTIONAL)
Figure 1. Palmtop computer LCD backlight supply
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DESIGN IDEAS
High Efficiency PolyPhase Converter
Combines Power from Multiple Inputs
by Wei Chen and Craig Varga
Introduction
A Typical Application
As more functions are integrated into
one IC, the power drawn by a single IC
can easily exceed the capability of a
single input power source. One solution is to use several available power
sources to obtain the required output
power, drawing some percentage of
the total power from each source. The
LTC1929 PolyPhase™ controller provides a simple solution to this problem.
Design Details
The LTC1929 is a PolyPhase dual,
current mode controller. It is capable
of driving two synchronous buck
channels 180 degrees out of phase to
reduce output switching ripple cur-
rent and voltage. One buck stage
receives its input power from the 12V
input and the other receives its power
from the 5V input. In a 2-phase design,
as the inductor current in the 5V
circuit increases, the inductor current in the 12V circuit decreases.
This results in a smaller net ripple
current flowing into the output
capacitor. Since there are two intervals in one switching period where
ripple cancellation takes place, the
output ripple voltage of the 2-phase
design is much smaller than that of a
single-phase design and fewer output
capacitors can be used.
The currents available from a PCI
connector are limited to 2A for the 5V
supply and 1A for the 12V supply. In
the example shown here, the load can
be as high as 6A or 16.8W at 2.8V.
Neither the 5V nor the 12V source is
capable of providing this power.
Hence, it is desirable to design a
power supply that can draw currents
from two power sources and whose
maximum input currents from each
source will not exceed the corresponding limit. With only one IC, two SO-8
MOSFETs and two small inductors, a
high efficiency, low noise power supply can be built.
continued on page 36
C1
1000pF
C2
L1, L2: SUMIDA CEE125-7R0
(847) 956-0666
Q1, Q2: FAIRCHILD FDS6690A
(207) 775-4502
C4: SANYO 16MV470AX
(619) 661-6835
C9, C14: SANYO 6MV1500AX
2
3
5
7
1
8
4
10
9
11
12
13
C13
(OPT)
C11
0.1µF
14
C12
1200
pF
R1 10Ω
D1
BAT54A
6
R3
(OPT)
1µF
SENSE1+
VIN
SENSE1–
TG1
PLLFLTR
BOOST1
LTC1929
PLLIN
NC
NC
SW1
RUN/SS
BG1
ITH
EXTVCC
EAIN
INTVCC
VDIFFOUT
SGND
PGND
TG2
VOS–
VOS+
BOOST2
SW2
–
SENSE2
SENSE2+
BG2
AMPMD
24
27
28
C5
L1 7µH/4A
26 0.22µF
23
C4
470µF
16V
RTN
+
C9
1500µF
6.3V
RTN
R2
0.007Ω
Q1B
22
21
C6
20
1µF
16
+
C7
10µF
10V
Ta
5VIN+
C8
1µF
Q2A
18
17 C10 0.22µF
L2 7µH/4A
19
15
Q2B
R4
0.007Ω
+
C14
1500µF
6.3V
R5
49.9k
1%
R6
20k
1%
C3
1µF
Q1A
25
12VIN+
+
C15
1µF
VOUT+
2.8V/6A
VOUT–
RTN
C16
1000pF
Figure 1. LTC1929 PCI-bus powered, dual-input PolyPhase power supply
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DESIGN IDEAS
Isolated RS485 Transceiver
Breaks Ground Loops
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
For example, if the twisted pair is
accidentally miswired or faults to 117V
at some remote location, the floating
section of each LTC1535 and its associated circuitry will also carry 117V.
An unwary user or installer could
then come in contact with what is
assumed to be a safe, low voltage
circuit. Figure 6 shows how to detect
and warn the user that a fault condition exists on the twisted pair or its
shield. A small (3.2mm) glow lamp is
connected between GND2 (the
LTC1535’s floating ground) and the
equipment’s safety “earth” ground. If
a potential of more than 75VAC is
present on the twisted pair or shield,
B1 will light, indicating a wiring fault.
Resistors R3 and R4 are used to ballast the current in B1. Two resistors
are necessary because each resistor
can only stand off 200V, as well as for
reasons of power dissipation. As
shown, the circuit can withstand a
direct fault to a 440V, 3-phase system.
Other problems introduced by floating the twisted pair include the
collection of static charge on the
twisted pair, its shield and the
data; this limits the useful baud rate
to approximately 500kBd. At 350kBd,
the jitter is guaranteed to be less than
10%. Figure 2 shows a double pulse
propagating through the LTC1535.
Waveform (A) is the transmitter data
input and waveform (B) is the output
of the receiver. The transmitter and
receiver are looped back on the isolated side of the chip. The typical
jitter is hardly visible. A negativegoing double pulse is shown in Figure
3. The LTC1535 transceiver is unaffected by the DC average of the data
waveform. Total round-trip propagation delay through the LTC1535 is
approximately 1µs or roughly equivalent to 328 feet of cable.
Figure 4 shows the driver output
waveform when loaded by 5000' of
terminated cable, operating in the
fast slew mode (SLEW pin pulled high).
The effect of the SLEW pin on the
driver output waveform is noticeable
in Figure 5, where rise and fall times
of approximately 1µs result.
Isolation can bring potentially dangerous voltages onto a circuit board
and within easy reach of the end user.
DI
DE
TWISTED
PAIR
NETWORK
RE
RO
28
27
26
25
18 17 16 15
RO RE DE DI
SLO RO2 A
B
ISOLATION
BARRIER
The RS485 interface is designed to
handle a –7V to 12V input signal
range; however, in practical systems,
ground potentials vary widely from
node to node, often exceeding the
specified range. This can result in an
interruption of communications, or
worse, destruction of a transceiver.
Guarding against large ground-toground differentials calls for an
isolated interface. A new surface
mount device, the LTC1535 isolated
RS485 transceivers, provides a onechip solution for breaking ground
loops.
Previously, isolation was achieved
using at least three optoisolators and
a separate isolated power supply. The
LTC1535 replaces not only the optoisolators, but also the power supply,
as it includes an on-chip DC/DC
converter. Other features include
selectable driver slew rate to reduce
EMI and susceptibility to reflections,
full-duplex pinout and fail-safe
detection of open and shorted lines.
The LTC1535 consists of two separate dice assembled on a proprietary,
isolated lead frame. The lead frame
includes integral coupling capacitors
that bridge the isolation barrier and
exhibit 2,500VRMS guaranteed standoff. Data communication takes place
via the coupling capacitors, while an
on-chip, 400kHz push-pull switching
regulator sends power to the isolated
side through a small transformer.
Total common-mode capacitance
across the barrier amounts to less
than 20pF, with the transformer
accounting for about 16pF of the total.
Figure 1 shows the complete circuit
for a fully isolated RS485 port.
The two halves of the LTC1535
communicate in a ping-pong fashion,
first sending transmit data to the
isolated side and then sending receive data back to the nonisolated
side. The sampling nature of the
internal communications link means
that some jitter is introduced into the
by Mitchell Lee
LTC1535
VCC1 ST1 ST2 GND1
GND2 Z
1
11 12 13 14
2
3
4
5V INPUT
1
Y VCC2
2
+
10µF
1/2 BAT54C
1
1 LOGIC COMMON
*CTX0214659
2
2 FLOATING RS485
COMMON
+
10µF
2
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Figure 1. Fully isolated RS485 port
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DESIGN IDEAS
A
A
5V/DIV
5V/DIV
B
B
2µs/DIV
2µs/DIV
Figure 2. Positive-going double-pulse behavior: A = driver input,
B = receiver output
2V/DIV
Figure 3. Negative-going double-pulse behavior: A = driver
input, B = receiver output
2V/DIV
2µs/DIV
2µs/DIV
Figure 4. Driver in fast slew mode, loaded with 5000’ of twiceterminated twisted pair
Figure 5. Driver in slow slew mode, loaded with 5000’ of twiceterminated twisted pair
attached circuitry. R1 and R2 provide
a path to shunt static charge safely to
ground. Again, two resistors are necessary to withstand high voltage
faults. Electrostatic spikes and transients can temporarily elevate the
twisted pair to 10kV or more. C1 in
Figure 6 absorbs this charge and
limits the peak voltage that reaches
the LTC1535 to a safe value. As an
example, if a 1000pF source charged
to 10kV comes in contact with the
cable, a single 10nF capacitor at C1
will reduce the peak voltage to just
1kV, decaying in less than 10ms
through R1–R4 and B1. 1kV is well
within the capabilities of the LTC1535.
Combining isolation, power and a
fully-compliant RS485 transmitter and
receiver, the LTC1535 provides a compact, cost-effective solution for isolated
serial data communications.
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SHIELDED
TWISTED
PAIR
NETWORK
Y
LTC1535
B
Z
GND2
2
2
R1*
470k
2
R2*
470k
†
C1
10nF
R3**
100k
R4**
100k
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Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN IDEAS
Sharp Gain Roll-Offs Using the LTC1562
Quad Operational Filter IC (Part 3)
by Nello Sevastopoulos
This is the third in series of articles
describing applications of the
LTC1562 quad Operational Filter™
IC connected as a lowpass, highpass,
notch or bandpass filter with added
stopband notches to increase
selectivity.
Parts 1 and 2 of the series (Linear
Technology VIII: 2, May 1998, pp. 28–
31 and IX:1, February 1999, pp.
31–35) described two notch techniques referred to as “feedforward.”
In these techniques, the filter topology was modified to introduce
summing junctions in the signal path
and passive components were carefully selected to allow summed signals
to cancel each other at specific
frequencies.
Part 3 of this series describes a new
notch technique, the RC notch, that
can be broadly applied to create
notches at any frequency. At the end
of this series of articles, the RC notch
technique will be compared to the
feedforward schemes and their
ILP(S)
IBP(S)
respective merits and drawbacks will
be discussed.
The principle of the RC notch technique is shown in Figure 1, where one
2nd order section of the LTC1562 is
connected as a basic all-pole 2nd
order lowpass/bandpass filter and
its two outputs are summed directly
into the next section by means of
resistor RIN2 and capacitor CIN2.
Note that, as V2B is the integral of
V1B, the lowpass output V2B lags the
bandpass output V1B by 90 degrees
or, conversely, V1B leads V2B by the
same amount. Furthermore, as
capacitor CIN2 adds another 90 degrees
of phase lead to the current IBP(S), the
two AC currents IBP(S) and ILP(S) will
always be 180 degrees out of phase. It
is quite trivial to show that a discrete
frequency will always exist where the
magnitude of these two currents will
be equal and a notch will be formed.
The frequency of the notch can be
easily derived by equating the magni-
1/2 LTC1562
C
tude of the two currents ILP(S) and
IBP(S), Figure 1; that is: ILP(S) = IBP(S)
or V2B(s)/RIN2 = V1B(s)s CIN2
(1),
with V2B(s) = V1B(1/(sR1C));
(2);
R1 = 10k, C = 159.15pF, and s = jω
Substituting (2) into (1) and
solving for ω = ω(notch) =
1/√(RIN2 • CIN2 • R1 • C)
(3)
Equation 3 above can be rewritten
as a function of the center frequency,
fO1, of the 2nd order filter section from
which it was derived:
fO1 = 1/(2πC√R1 • R2)
f(NOTCH) = fN
= fO1 • √(R21 • C)/(RIN2 • CIN2)
(4)
Equation (4) allows a quick estimate of the notch frequency relative
to the fO. The magnitude R21 • C
relative to RIN2 • CIN2 will determine
whether the notch frequency is higher
than, equal to, or lower than the
C
CIN2
RQ1
R21
–
+
+
1
–
RIN1
VIN
2
V1B
3
V2B
20
RQ2
19
V1C
1
sCR1
1
sCR1
RIN2
R22
18
V2C
R1, C ARE PRECISION INTERNAL COMPONENTS
R1 = 10k; C = 159.15pF
Figure 1. Summing the BP output (V1A) and the lowpass output (V1B) into the inverting node of
the next LTC1562 section to form an RC notch
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
31
DESIGN IDEAS
CIN2
center frequency, fO, of the filter section from which it was derived.
The technique of Figure 1 can be
expanded to create high order filters
with stopband notches. This is shown
in Figure 2, where all four sections of
an LTC1562 are used to create an 8th
order filter. The notches, as in Figure
1, are formed by summing the two
voltage outputs (V2i, V1i) via (RINi,
CINi), respectively into the inverting
node of the following section. As
shown, Figure 2 supports three
notches. A fourth notch can also be
produced if the V2D, V1D outputs are
summed into the inverting input of an
external op amp.
If the filter output in Figure 2 is
taken from node V2D and if the frequencies of all the notches are higher
than the highest center frequency of
any of the cascaded 2nd order sections, the overall filter response is a
lowpass. As selective lowpass filters
are quite popular and relatively easy
to design, a lowpass example will be
used to illustrate the RC notch technique. More sophisticated examples
will be shown in future articles.
For the sake of thoroughness, the
transfer function of Figure 2 is shown
below:
3
G(s) = H •
∏ (s2
+
ω2
Ni)
RIN2
RIN3
RIN1
VIN
1
RQ1
R21
5V
2
3
5
0.1µF
6
R23
8
9
RQ3
10
INV B
INV C
V1 B
V1 C
V2 B
V2 C
LTC1562
V+
V–
SHDN
AGND
V2 A
V2 D
V1 A
V1 D
INV A
INV D
20
19
RQ2
18
R22
16
0.1µF
15
13
–5V*
R24
12
11
RQ4
VOUT
RIN4
CIN4
*V– ALSO AT PINS 4, 7, 14 AND 17
Figure 2. Cascading all four sections of an LTC1562 to form an 8th order response
with three notches
The DC gain of the filter is the
product of the DC gains of the cascaded 2nd order sections and can be
written by inspection:
(VOUT/VIN) = (R24/RIN4) • (R23/RIN3)
• (R22 • RIN2) • (R21/RIN1)
(7)
An Example, Using
Linear Technology
FilterCAD™ for Windows®
Design a lowpass filter with a 100kHz
passband and 80dB or more attenuation at 200kHz. The passband gain
should be 0dB and the passband
ripple should not exceed 0.2db. Use
FilterCAD to synthesize the filter.
Table 1 illustrates the first try,
with FilterCAD indicating a classical
7th order lowpass elliptic filter. The
filter can be realized by cascading
ω2
O4
3
∏ (s2 + sωOi αi + ω2Oi )
(5)
where H = (R24/RIN1) • (CIN2 • CIN3 •
CIN4)/C3)
(6)
and where C is the internal integrator
capacitor.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.
Table 1. FilterCAD synthesis of classical 7th order elliptic response
Passband Ripple:
Stopband Attenuation:
Passband Frequency:
Stopband Frequency:
Filter Response: Elliptic
Filter Type: Lowpass
Order: 7
0.010dB
80.000dB
100.000kHz
200.000kHz
fO
Q
fN
QN
Type
61.3323e3
———
———
———
LP1
75.8750e3
0.7297
204.4515e3
———
LPN
98.1197e3
1.5548
249.0337e3
———
LPN
110.5908e3
5.4287
435.4434e3
———
LPN
32
CIN3
three out of four sections of the
LTC1562 (Figure 3), where an external op amp is used to realize the third
notch. Note the cascading sequence
of 2nd order sections illustrated in
Figure 3. The unused fourth section
of the LTC1562 could perform another
filter function, which could be independent from the above lowpass filter
design.
The following step-by-step procedure shows how to calculate the
external passive components of
Figure 3.
1. From the LTC1562 data sheet,
calculate all the R2is and RQis:
R2i = (100kHz/fOi)2 • 10k; RQi = Qi •
(8)
√(10k • R2i)
(i = 1, 2, 3 …)
R21 = 17.37k; R22 = 10.387k;
R23 = 8.176k
RQ1 = 9.62k; RQ2 = 15.846k;
RQ3 = 49.087k
2. Calculate resistors RINi and
capacitors CINi.
RINi should be chosen independently from CINi by considering DC
gains; CINi will be calculated to make
the time constant RINi • CINi yield the
appropriate notch frequency. As there
are fewer commercially available
capacitor values than resistors, the
theoretical value of CINi will be rounded
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN IDEAS
20
CIN2 39pF
CIN3
15pF
RIN2 9.76k
0
RIN1 18.2k
VIN
5V
1
RQ1 9.53k
2
R21 17.4k
3
5
0.1µF
6
R23 8.25k
8
9
RQ3 48.7k
10
INV B
INV C
V1 B
V1 C
V2 B
V+
V2 C
LTC1562
V–
SHDN
AGND
V2 A
V2 D
V1 A
V1 D
INV A
INV D
20
GAIN (dB)
–20
RIN3 16.9k
19
RQ2 15.8k
18
R22 10.5k
–5V*
0.1µF
15
–100
13
11
–120
10k
FREE
SECTION
*V– ALSO AT PINS 4, 7, 14 AND 17
CIN4
RG 21.5k
8pF
CRP 120pF
–
LT1360
VOUT
Figure 3. Cascading three sections of an LTC1562 to form a 7th order lowpass elliptic response
off to its closest commercially available
value; RINi will then be appropriately
adjusted to maintain the required
value of the time constant RINi • CINi.
This algorithm is summarized below.
Set RINi; Calculate CINi from the
notch expression (3) or (4); Round off
the theoretical value of CINi to the
closest commercially available value;
recalculate RINi so that (RINi • CINi)
theoretical = (RINi • CINi) commercially
obtainable.
Optimally setting RINi resistors is
easier said than done. One straightforward method would allow unity DC
gain at each cascaded stage, that is
RINi = R2i. This could work if the filter
is realized from medium Q stages (for
example, Qs less than 1), but for Qs
much higher than 0.707, the maximum AC gain of a lowpass 2nd order
section is approximately (Q • DC gain);
an internal node could have much
higher gain than the filter output.
This could cause internal clipping that
could limit the filter’s dynamic range.
A computer program can also be
written to calculate the AC gain at
each internal node and then make a
wise choice for RINi resistors. FilterLinear Technology Magazine • November 1999
100k
1M
FREQUENCY (Hz)
10M
Figure 4. Measured gain response of Figure
2’s circuit
gain. The gain at V22 with
respect to VIN, however, will still
be close to 0dB.
Solve for CIN2 by using (4) above:
RIN4 10.5k
+
–60
–80
16
12
–40
CAD for Windows already performs
this function for the switched capacitor products (LTC1060, LTC1061,
LTC1064, LTC1067, LTC1068) and,
in the near future, it will also support
LTC’s newer RC active products
(LTC1562, et al.).
For the purpose of this article, we
will use a simple rule of thumb that
works fairly well, at least for lowpass
elliptic filters: For Qs less than 2, set
the DC gain of the second order section equal to unity, for Qs higher than
2 and less than 5, set the DC gain
equal to 0.5V/V and for Qs higher
than 5 and less than 8, set the DC
gain equal to 0.35V/V.
2a: Set: RIN1 = R21 = 17.37k; this
sets the DC gain of the lowpass
node V21 of the first stage to
0dB.
2b: Set: RIN2 = R22 = 10.387k; this
sets the DC gain of the lowpass
node V22 with respect to V21
equal to 0db. The AC gain at V22
will peak at approximately the
center frequency, fO2, and the
magnitude of the peak will be
approximately Q2 times the DC
CIN2 = ((R21 • C)/(RIN2)) • (fO1/fN1)2
= 36.655pF
(9)
Choose CIN2 = 39pF (standard
capacitor value) and readjust the value
of RIN2, such that
RIN2(REAL) = (36.655pF/39pF) •
(10.387k) = 9.762k
(10)
2c: Set RIN3 = 2 • R23 = 16.352k
and calculate CIN3 from (9) above:
CIN3 = ((R22 • C)/RIN3) • (fO2/fN2)2 =
15.695pF
Choose CIN3 = 15pF (standard capacitor value) and readjust the value
of RIN3 as above (10).
RIN3(REAL) = (15.695pF/15pF) •
(16.352k) = 17.1k
2d: Calculate the last stage
(external op amp) passive
components: CRP, RG, RIN4 and
CIN4.
This is slightly more cumbersome
than the previous calculations but
the simple algorithm outlined below
will make this task quite intuitive:
Calculate the desired ratio of
RG/RIN4 by considering the overall DC
gain of the lowpass filter. Start with
an arbitrary, yet reasonable, value for
RG, calculate RIN4 and also calculate
CRP to realize the 7th pole (real pole) of
the filter (see Table 1). Make sure that
the value of RIN4 is not too small (it
should be greater than 2k). Adjust
the value of RG to accommodate a
commercially available capacitor, CRP.
continued on page 35
33
DESIGN IDEAS
Using the LT1719 Comparator for
Low Dispersion Sine Wave to
Square Wave Conversion by Joseph G. Petrofsky
The LT1719 is an UltraFastTM,
4.5ns comparator with separate analog and digital supplies. Both supplies
can be as low as 2.7V, or the LT1719
can be used as a level translator in
mixed 3V/5V systems. The propagation delay of comparators is typically
specified for a 100mV step, with some
fraction of that for overdrive. But in
many signal-processing applications,
such as in communications, the goal
is to convert a sine wave, such as a
carrier, to a square wave for use as a
timing clock. The desired behavior is
for the output timing to be dependent
only on the input timing. No dispersion or phase shift should occur as a
function of the input amplitude, as
this would result in AM to FM conversion. The LT1719 is an excellent choice
in these applications, particularly
when the input signal is larger than
100mVP-P.
Test Circuit
The circuit of Figure 1 was used to
test an LT1719-based sine wave to
square wave converter. The ±5V supplies on the input allow very large
input swings; the 3V logic supply
keeps the output swing small to mini-
mize coupling back into the inputs.
Characterization of the delay, which
varies just a fraction of a nanosecond
over a decade of input amplitude
change, is not simple. A fast oscilloscope can have ±500ps of variation in
any given channel. This can be calibrated by swapping input and output
channels and averaging the readings
if the two signals allow the same
vertical scale factors. But for a measurement of delay changes over a
decade or more of amplitude range,
accuracy is degraded by delay dependence on the gain settings of the
oscilloscope’s vertical path.
To characterize the delay, an
HP4195 Spectrum/Network Analyzer
was used to look at the phase of the
output relative to the input (Test/
Ref). Because the HP4195 is a spectrum/network analyzer, it can reject
the harmonics of the output square
wave, unlike some network-only analyzers. The phase of the fundamental
component of the LT1719 output can
be slightly affected by the exact nature
of any overshoot or undershoot of the
transitions, so a pair of antiparallel
diodes is used to clip off these portions of the output waveform. The
Results
Figure 2 shows the time delay of the
sine wave to square wave converter
responding to an amplitude sweep at
10MHz. The delay is calculated as:
tDELAY = tDELAY|0dBm –
5V 3V
TM04-1*
rest of the circuitry on the output is a
filter whose exact behavior does not
affect the measurement because the
same amplitude and frequency signal
will always be present there and only
relative changes in phase will be
examined.
The input signal is terminated in a
resistive –12dB pad that creates the
reference signal for the analyzer. The
HP4195 maximum oscillator level is
15dBm or 3.56VP-P. The 1:2 transformer steps this up to 7.12VP-P
differential at the DUT input. An
amplifier could be used to boost the
amplitude further, but distortion in
the amplifier could result in phase
errors because the LT1719 will
respond to the zero-crossings,
whereas the HP4195 will respond to
the phase of the fundamental. The
results without a transformer,
grounding the unused comparator
input, were unchanged but for the
loss of 6dB.
+
1000pF
62Ω
1N5711 ×2
51Ω
(θ – θ|0dBm)
360° • 10MHz
51Ω
LT1719
–
75Ω
SHDN
100Ω
200pF
–5V
50Ω
HP4195
SOURCE REF TEST
Z = 50Ω
*MINI CRCUITS (718) 934-4500
Figure 1. Sine to square wave converter schematic
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Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
DESIGN IDEAS
5
4VP-P INTO DUT
400mVP-P INTO DUT
DELAY (ns)
range; 2.33 degrees at 10MHz. The
delay is particularly flat, yielding
4
VCC = 5V
excellent AM rejection, from –5dBm
VEE = –5V
to 10dBm, a common range for RF
+VS = 3V
f = 10MHz
3
signal levels.
With small input signals, the hysteresis of the LT1719 (3.5mV typ.)
2
and increased propagation delay make
the LT1719 act like a comparator
1
with a 12mV hysteresis span. In other
words, a 12mVP-P sine wave at 10MHz
0
will barely toggle the LT1719, but
–15
–10
–5
0
5
10
15
INPUT AMPLITUDE (dBm)
with 90° of phase lag or 25ns additional delay. Above 5VP-P at 10MHz,
Figure 2. Time delay vs sine wave input
amplitude
the LT1719 delay starts to decrease
where θ is the phase in degrees mea- due to the internal capacitive feedsured by the network analyzer and forward in the design of the input
tDELAY|0dBm is the absolute delay at stage. Unlike some comparators, the
0dB input amplitude, which was mea- LT1719 will not falsely anticipate a
sured with a fast oscilloscope using change in input polarity, but the feedthe calibration method described ear- forward is enough to make a transition
lier. The LT1719 delay changes just propagate through the LT1719 faster
0.65ns over the 26dB amplitude once the input polarity does change.
At frequencies higher than 10MHz,
attention to detail in the physical
construction of circuits becomes particularly important. With a poor
layout, the output toggle action can
capacitively or inductively couple back
to the input signal, causing distortion. This must be avoided in order to
measure the actual performance of
the comparator. The LT1719 pinout
has been optimized to shield the input
signals from the digital signals with
two intervening power supply pins.
Conclusion
The new LT1719 comparator can easily be used to create a low power, high
performance, sine wave to square
wave converter. The fast, 4.5ns delay
barely changes with input amplitude
fluctuations. The delay is particularly
flat, for excellent AM rejection, from
–5dBm to 10dBm.
LTC1562 notches, continued from page 33
Calculate CIN4 as in the previous steps
and adjust the value of RIN4. The
choice of capacitors will most likely
alter the original ratio of RG/RIN4, so
readjust the value of the input resistor RIN1 to restore the DC gain of the
filer to its original value.
2d-1. Set the overall gain of the
lowpass filter to its desired value
(here we are assuming 1V/V) and
calculate the ratio of RG/RIN4:
(VOUT/VIN) DC = (RG/RIN4) • (R23/RIN3)
• (R22/RIN2) • (R21/RIN1) = 1V/V (11)
RG/RIN4 = 1.9656
2d-2. Start with an arbitrary, yet
reasonable value, for example RG
= 20k, and solve for CRP to obtain
the 7th real pole frequency of
61.332kHz.
CRP = 129.75pF; choose CRP = 120pF
and adjust RG to 21.625k
Solve for RIN4 = RG/1.956 = 11.05k
2d-3. Calculate CIN4 = ((R23 • C)/
RIN4) • (fO3/fN3)2 = 7.595pF
Choose CIN4 = 8pF (standard value)
and readjust RIN4 to
R IN4(REAL) = (7.595pF/8pF) •
(11.05k) = 10.49k
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2d-4 As the new ratio (RG/RIN4) has
changed slightly [(RG/RIN4)REAL =
2.06 instead of 1.9656], adjust
RIN1 to reestablish 0dB of DC
gain: RIN1(REAL) = 17.37k •
(2.06/1.9656) = 18.2k.
Experimental Results
The resistor values derived above are
first rounded off to their nearest 1%
values, as shown below:
1% surface mount resistors, type
0805:
RIN1 = 18.2k, R21 = 17.4k, RQ1 = 9.53k
RIN2 = 9.76k, R22 = 10.5k, RQ2 = 15.8k
RIN3 = 16.9k, R23 = 8.25k, RQ3 = 48.7k
RIN4 = 10.5k, RG = 21.5k
The choice of the above 1% values
increases the DC gain by 0.24dB so
the value of RIN1 is raised from 18.2k
to 18.7k (1%) to restore the 0dB value
of the passband gain.
Resistors RQ2 and RQ3 are also
slightly changed to predistort the values of Q2 and Q3, as shown in the
LTC1562 data sheet curve (Q error vs
nominal fO). This is done by lowering
the values of RQ2 and RQ3 by the same
percentages as the Q error. The new
values are RQ2 = 15k (1%) and RQ3 =
45.3k (1%).
The filter of Figure 2 was constructed with the resistor values
shown above and with 5% type X7R
surface mount capacitors:
CIN2 = 39pF, CIN3 = 15pF, CIN4 = 8pF,
CRP = 120pF
The active devices are the
LTC1562A and the LT1360 op amp.
Figure 4 shows the filter gain response.
The measured passband error is
0.15dB and the total output RMS
noise is 60µVRMS. With a dual 5V
supply, the filter can easily provide a
5V peak-to-peak signal with a 90dB
signal-to-noise ratio and better than
0.01% distortion. The attenuation of
the filter remains below 80dB for input
frequencies up to 6MHz.
Conclusion
A simple method of how to systematically synthesize and design a high
performance lowpass elliptic filter is
fully illustrated above. The experimental results match the theoretical
calculations provided; the Q-setting
resistors are slightly adjusted to
account for the small Q errors of the
LTC1562A.
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CONTINUATIONS
Conclusion
LT1461, continued from page 5
This is pretty hard to determine (read
impossible) if the peak-to-peak output noise is larger than this number.
As a practical matter the best laboratory reference available has long-term
drift of 1.5µV/mo. This performance
is only available from the very best
subsurface Zener references using
specialized heating techniques.
The LT1461 long-term drift data
was taken with parts that were soldered onto PC boards as in a “real
world” application. The boards were
then placed in a constant-temperature oven with TA = 30°C and their
outputs were scanned regularly and
measured with an 8.5 digit DVM.
Figure 4 shows the long-term drift of
three typical LT1461S8-2.5s soldered
into a PC board. This is the best
performance we have measured on
an IC voltage reference that is not
based on a subsurface Zener.
The LT1461 series reference meets
the growing need for low power, high
accuracy and low temperature coefficient, while simultaneously serving
micropower precision regulator
applications. This new bandgap
reference comes in the 8-lead SO
package. It is available in 2.5V and
will be available in 4.096V, 5.0V and
10V options.
250
LT1461S8-2.5
3 TYPICAL PARTS SOLDERED ONTO PCB
TA = 30°C
200
ppm
150
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100
50
0
–50
0
200
400
600
800
1000
HOURS
1200
1400
1600
1800
2000
Figure 4. Long-term drift
LTC1929, continued from page 28
2.0
VIN1 = 5V
VIN2 = 12V
VOUT = 2.8V
fS = 300kHz
1.8
INPUT CURRENT (A)
1.6
1.4
12V BUCK
INDUCTOR CURRENT
1A/DIV
5V INPUT CURRENT
1.2
1.0
0.8
5V BUCK
INDUCTOR CURRENT
1A/DIV
0.6
0.4
12V INPUT CURRENT
0.2
0
0
1
2
3
4
5
LOAD CURRENT (A)
6
7
Figure 2. Input currents vs load current
for Figure 1’s circuit
Figure 1 shows the schematic diagram of the complete power supply.
The switching frequency is about
300kHz per-channel for an effective
output ripple frequency of 600kHz.
The inductors in both stages are 7µH.
The current sense resistor is 0.007Ω
for each channel.
OUTPUT RIPPLE
VOLTAGE
50mV/DIV
1µs/DIV
Figure 3. Ripple current and voltage waveforms
12V sources are 1.66A and 0.84A,
respectively, which are well below the
PCI connector’s current limits. Figure 3 shows the waveforms of the
inductor ripple currents and output
ripple voltages. Note the ripple
cancellation phenomenon. The peakto-peak switching ripple voltage at
Test Results
the output terminal is only 50mVP-P
The overall efficiency is above 90% with one 1500µF/6.3V aluminum
from 0.5A to 6A. Figure 2 shows the electrolytic capacitor. If two buck cirdistribution of two input currents as cuits are synchronized in phase, the
the load current varies. The maxi- ripple voltage will be 70mVP-P, almost
mum input currents for the 5V and a 50% increase.
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Conclusion
The PolyPhase technique reduces the
output ripple voltage without increasing the switching frequency. High
efficiency can be obtained for low
output voltage applications. The
LTC1929 PolyPhase controller provides a small, low cost solution for
multi-input applications. If more than
two inputs are needed, use the
LTC1629 rather than the LTC1929.
Multiple LTC1629s can be configured for 3-, 4-, 6- or even 12-phase
operation.
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NEW DEVICE CAMEOS
New Device Cameos
LT1637: Rugged
Rail-To-Rail Op Amp
Delivers 1.1MHz GainBandwidth Product from
250µA Supply Current
The LT1637 is a rugged op amp; it has
Over-the-Top inputs, rail-to-rail output, shutdown and reverse supply
protection. The LT1637 achieves a
gain-bandwidth product of 1.1MHz
while drawing less than 250µA of
quiescent current and operates on all
single and split supplies with a total
voltage of 2.7V to 44V. The output of
the LT1637 will swing to within 3mV
of V– with less than 1mV of input
overdrive, making it ideal for sensing
voltages close to ground in singlesupply systems. The LT1637 is easily
shut down, with a shutdown pin current of less than 5µA. In shutdown,
the LT1637’s output is high impedance and its quiescent current drops
to only 3µA. The LT1637 draws virtually no current for reverse supplies of
up to 25V. Unlike most micropower
op amps, the LT1637 can drive heavy
loads: its rail-to-rail output drives
25mA. The LT1637 is unity-gain stable
into all capacitive loads up to 220pF
(4700pF when 0.22µF and 150Ω compensation is used).
The LT1637 has a unique input
stage that operates and remains high
impedance when above the positive
supply. The inputs take 44V both
differential and common mode, even
when operating on a 3V supply. Builtin resistors protect the inputs for
faults below the negative supply up to
22V. There is no phase reversal of the
output for inputs 5V below VEE or 44V
above VEE, independent of VCC.
The LT1637 op amp is available in
the 8-pin MSOP, 8-pin SO and PDIP
packages.
The LTC1655L: Smallest
16-Bit Voltage-Output DAC
Saves Board Space
The LTC1655L is the smallest 16-bit
voltage-output DAC available today.
It is available in an 8-pin SO package
Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999
and includes an internal 1.25V reference and a rail-to-rail voltage output
amplifier. The LTC1655L is guaranteed to be monotonic over the
industrial temperature range with a
typical differential nonlinearity of
0.3LSB. It is pin compatible with Linear Technology’s 12- and 14-bit DAC
family, allowing an easy upgrade path.
The LTC1655L can operate on a wide
supply range of 2.7V to 5.5V, dissipating 1.6mW from a 3V supply. The
output swings from 0V to 2.5V when
using the internal reference. The reference pin can be overdriven to a
higher voltage for a wider output swing.
The LTC1655L has a flexible, SPI/
QSPI and MICROWIRE™ compatible,
3-wire serial interface. A DOUT pin
allows daisy chaining. The SCK pin is
equipped with an internal Schmitt
trigger for noise immunity, allowing
direct optocoupler interfacing to the
part. The logic inputs are TTL level
compatible. The rail-to-rail voltage
output will swing to within a few
millivolts of either supply rail when
unloaded and is capable of driving
capacitive loads of up to a 1000pF
without oscillating.
LTC1798 Low Dropout
References Draw Only 6.5µA
of Supply Current
The LTC1798-2.5, LTC1798-3,
LTC1798-4.1 and LTC1798-5 are
6.5µA series voltage references with
guaranteed 0.15% accuracy, a maximum of 40ppm/°C temperature drift
and 200mV dropout voltage that do
not require an output capacitor for
stability. An adjustable version, the
LTC1798, is also available.
This family of references operates
on supplies as high as 12.6V. They
can source up to 10mA and sink up to
2mA, making them ideal for precision
regulator applications. They use
trimmed thin-film resistors and curvature compensation to achieve high
output accuracy and low temperature coefficient.
MICROWIRE is a trademark of National Semiconductor
Corp.
The LTC1798 family of series references provides supply current and
power dissipation advantages over
shunt references that must idle the
entire load current to operate. The
LTC1798 series is available in the
8-pin SO package.
LTC1647 Device-Bay Chip
Hot Swaps Peripherals
The LTC1647 dual Hot Swap controller allows a board to be safely inserted
into and removed from a live backplane. Equally at home on either side
of the connector, the LTC1647 can act
from the host side or reside on the hot
swappable product. It is particularly
well suited for USB and Device Bay
applications.
The two sections of the LTC1647
operate independently and each
features an electronic circuit breaker,
a fault flag and an ON/OFF control
that doubles as a programmable
undervoltage lockout. Each section
drives an N-channel pass transistor,
allowing any two supply voltages from
2.7V to 15V to be ramped at a controlled rate. The LTC1647 operates
under the control of a microprocessor
or autonomously, including recovering from fault conditions.
Several package options offer a
choice of control and fault pin configurations; 8-pin SO and 16-lead
SSOP packages are available.
LT1812: 3mA, 100MHz,
750V/µs Operational
Amplifier with Shutdown
The LT1812 is a low power, high speed,
very high slew rate operational amplifier with excellent DC performance.
Compared to other devices with similar bandwidth, the LT1812 features
reduced supply current, lower input
offset voltage (0.5mV typical) and lower
input bias current (1µA typical). A
power-saving shutdown feature reduces supply current to 50µA. The
circuit topology is a voltage feedback
amplifier with the slewing characteristics of a current feedback amplifier.
Both inputs are high impedance, like
those of a voltage feedback amplifier.
However, the slew rate is a function of
the input step as well as the gain
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NEW DEVICE CAMEOS
configuration, much like a current
feedback amplifier.
The LT1812 is specified at both
±5V and with a single 5V supply. The
input common mode range is symmetrical at ±3.5V minimum (±5V
supply) and at1.5V–3.5V minimum
for a single 5V supply. The output
drives a 100Ω load to ±3.5V with ±5V
supplies. On a single 5V supply, the
output swings from 1.1V to 3.9V with
a 100Ω load connected to 2.5V. The
amplifier is stable over a wide range of
capacitive loads, from no load to
1000pF, which makes it useful in
buffer and cable-driver applications.
The LT1812 is available in the 8pin SO package.
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LT1721 Quad, 4.5ns,
Comparator in an SO-8 Sized
Package Works Down to 2.7V
The LT1721 is an UltraFastTM quad
comparator optimized for single-supply operation with a supply voltage
range of 2.7V to 6V. The LT1721 is
offered in the 16-lead SO package, as
well as the 16-lead GN, which is the
same size as an SO-8.
Propagation delay is just 4.5ns typical (6.5ns max) with 20mV overdrive
and 7ns typical (10ns max) with 5mV
overdrive. Quiescent current is only
4mA typical (7mA max) per comparator. The input voltage range extends
from 100mV below ground to 1.2V
below the supply voltage. Phase-reversal circuitry prevents false output
states when the inputs are driven
even further below ground.
Internal hysteresis makes the
LT1721 easy to use even with slowly
moving input signals. Input DC specifications feature an offset voltage of
1mV typical (3mV max.) with fulltemperature range limits on all DC
specifications including input hysteresis and trip points. The rail-to-rail
outputs can directly interface to TTL
and CMOS. Alternatively, their symmetric output drive can be harnessed
for analog applications or easy translation to other logic levels.
The LT1721 is a quad version of
the LT1720 dual comparator. These
products, along with the LT1719
single comparator, constitute an easyto-use, high speed comparator family
that features small size, low power,
and low cost.
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Linear Technology Magazine • November 1999