IRISMPS3 REFERENCE DESIGN International Rectifier • 233 Kansas Street El Segundo CA 90245 USA Technical Specifications 1. AC Input: V=90~265V, f=57~63Hz, I= 1.3Arms max 2. Inrush Current: 13A max 3. Efficiency: 87% at full load high line (82% at low line) 4. Turn On Delay: <2secs @ 90V full load 5. Short Circuit Protection: Yes 6. Over Voltage Protection: Yes 7. Hold-Up Time: 140msec (230Vin Full load) / 27ms (90Vin Full load) 8. Output Rise Time: 7ms max (10-90%) 9. Output Characteristics Load Range Regulation (V) Nominal Ouput Voltage 15V Min Max 0A 4A 14.4V ~ 15.6V 10: Switching Frequency: 20 -250kHz Relevant Technical Documents AN1018a - Using the IR40xx Series SMPS ICs AN1024a - Flyback transformer design for the IR40xx series AN1025a - Designing a Power Supply Using The IRIS40xx Series DT01-1 - A Standby Circuit For the IRIS40xx Integrated Switchers IRIStran.xls - IRIS Series Flyback Transformer Design Spreadsheet IRIS4013(K) - Datasheet www.irf.com 1 IRISMPS3 Circuit Description The IRISMPS3 reference design is a complete tested power supply circuit. It is designed for a universal AC line input and will provide a 15V, 4A full load DC output. The design uses a flyback converter topology, with an IRIS4013K as the main switch and control device. The initial start-up current for the IRIS4013K is provided by a dropper resistor from the DC bus. Once the circuit is started the Vcc power for the IRIS4013K comes from the bias winding of the main transformer. The primary current control circuit consists of a current sensing resistor which feeds a voltage proportional to the transformer primary current into the feedback (FB) pin of the IRIS4013K. The secondary voltage control loop uses an LM431 precision shunt regulator as the reference and an optocoupler to feedback the information across the transformer galvanic isolation boundary back to the control circuit of the IRIS4013K. Test Circuit Set-up Fig 1) Connections to the board viewed from the top board layout The circuit is designed for a universal AC line input. To safely test and evaluate this circuit it is recommended that an isolation transformer or a synthesized and isolated AC source (such as a Pacific Power Source 115-ASX) is used to power the board, with a voltage in the range of 90-265VAC, with a frequency of 50/60Hz. The AC input signal is applied to the pins at P1 and P3 marked on the board. For the output the best load to use is an electronic load which will allow easy changes in the output load, e.g. something like a Chroma 63102. Another simple alternative is to use a High power resistor for the load. The output connection are as follows: P2 is the Positive output voltage connection, P4 is the negative(or return) output connection. Circuit Operation The front end of the circuit consists of an EMI Filter, a diode bridge rectifier, and a DC bus filter capacitor. These are all fairly common circuit components used to create a DC voltage at the top end of the transformer. At power up the DC voltage is applied to the top of the transformer, and the top of resistor R2. R2 and R3 allow 2 www.irf.com IRISMPS3 about 100uA of quiescent current to flow which charges the Vcc capacitor C9. When the voltage at the Vcc pin of the IRIS4013K reaches the positive undervoltage lockout threshold (VCCUV+) , the IRIS4013K starts to operate and will turn on the internal FET. Now the DC bus voltage is applied across the transformer primary winding, the FET and the current sense resistors R15/R16. The current through the transformer primary, the FET and the current sense resistors will start to ramp up. The rate of the ramp is dependent on the DC bus voltage and hence the input line voltage (for example, the rate at 90VAC in is much lower than the rate at 230VAC in). The current ramps until the voltage across R15/R16 reaches the Vth1 of the IRIS4013K (0.73V typ). During this time there is no current flowing in either the bias winding or the output winding, because this is blocked by the diodes D3 and D1 respectively. At the point when the voltage across R15/R16 reaches Vth1 this activates a comparator in the IRIS4013K and the internal FET is switched off. Now the energy stored in the transformer causes the voltage at the Drain connected end of the transformer to rise, and as a result the voltage at the bias winding and the output winding changes from negative to positive. The output rectifiers now conducts and the energy is transferred to the output and the bias winding. If there is a fixed full current load on the output it will take a number of cycles for the output voltage to rise to the required level, and also it will take a few cycles for the bias winding to begin supplying power to the Vcc pin of the IRIS4013K. Until this happens, C9 holds the voltage above the undervoltage lockout level (Vccuv-) to make sure the circuit does not drop out. During this time the circuit cannot create enough voltage signal through the delay circuit to activate the quasi-resonant operation, so the circuit operates with a fixed off time of 50us (this is the pulse ratio control mode or PRC mode). Once the output capacitors C7 & C8 and the Vcc capacitor C9 are fully charged, the complete quasi-resonant signal can be passed through the mode switching circuit & delay circuit D4/Q1/R11/D6 to the feedback (FB) pin This will happen only if the Bias winding voltage is above the switching threshold of the mode switching circuit (the operation of the mode switching circuit will be discussed in the next section). This will give a voltage above the Vth2 threshold of the IRIS4013K, and this activates the quasi-resonant operation, holding the internal FET off until all the energy is transferred from the primary side of the transformer to the secondary and bias outputs. When all the energy is transferred, the quasi-resonant signal at the FB pin will start to fall until it can no longer supply the 1.35mA required by the IRIS4013K internal latch, and the FET is turned back on. This is also the lowest point of the resonant voltage at the drain pin of the IRIS4013K (shown as point X in fig2 ), so results in reduced switching losses. If the AC input voltage changes but the load stays constant, the primary current ramp will now be steeper resulting in a shorter ON time, but still the same off time as it still takes the same amount of time to transfer the same energy to the output. The reduced ON time leads to a higher operating frequency. If the AC input voltage remains constant, but the load is reduced, the secondary side voltage monitoring circuit (ISO1A/R9/D5/R5/R13/C13) will see an increase in the voltage, as the circuit is still passing the same energy to the secondary side, but less current is being drawn. This causes the LM431 Precision Shunt Regulator (D5) to conduct, causing to a current flow in the optocoupler ISO1A, which in turn gets passed across the transformer boundary to the phototransistor part of the optocoupler ISO1B. This creates a voltage drop across R8, generating an offset voltage at the FB pin thereby reducing the current required through the current sense resistors R15/R16 needed to reach a voltage of 0.73typ (Vth1 threshold) at the FB pin, and hence less energy is put into the transformer, reducing both the ON time and the OFF time. Mode Switching Circuit Operation The mode switching circuit consists of Q1/R8/C12/R12/D7 and is used to switch the operating mode of the IRIS device between quasi-resonant and PRC modes dependant on the output loading, with the aim of reducing the power loss at light or no load. At full load the bias winding voltage is higher than the switching threshold of the mode switching circuit which is set at about 13V in this circuit, this results in a current through D4/R8/R12/D7 which causes enough voltage across the base emitter junction of Q1 to forward bias it, which in turn allows the quasi-resonant signal to pass www.irf.com 3 IRISMPS3 through R11/D6 to the FB pin of the IRIS4013K. If the bias winding voltage is below the threshold Q1 is off and no quasi-resonant signal is passed, this causes U1 to operate in the PRC mode with a fixed of time of 50us, this results in a further lowering of the Vcc voltage to provide some hysteresis to prevent spurious changing between modes. Circuit Waveforms The following plots show waveforms taken from the circuit under various stated conditions Fig 2) Drain (D) voltage of IRIS4013K (CH1) and FB voltage (CH3) 90VAC in Full load Fig 2) shows the drain voltage of the IRIS4013K and the FB voltage with full load output at 90VAC input. Note that point X marked on the drain waveform shows the detection point for the quasi-resonant signal which is the lowest point on the drain waveform after the energy is transferred. Fig 3) shows the drain voltage and the feedback pin (FB) voltage at 265VAC input again with a full load output. Note that at the start of the ON time for the FET the FB pin signal has a higher dv/dt rise. This is due to the feedback signal from the output creating the offset voltage to keep the output power constant. Also note that the on-time is shorter and hence the operating frequency is higher. 4 www.irf.com IRISMPS3 Fig 3)Drain (D) voltage of IRIS4013K (CH1) and the FB pin voltage (CH3) at 265VAC in/Full load output Fig 4) Drain (D) voltage of IRIS4013K (CH1) and the Source pin voltage (CH3) at 230VAC in/Full load output Fig 4) shows the Drain voltage and the source pin voltage at 230VAC input and full load output current. The Source pin voltage is effectively a measure of the primary current, as this is the voltage across the current www.irf.com 5 IRISMPS3 sense resistors R15/R16. There is a small spike at the beginning of the ramp which is due to the discharging of the resonant capacitor and the winding capacitance of the transformer primary winding. Note that if the input voltage was 90VAC and there was a full load output, there would be very little feedback, and the source voltage would ramp all the way to the Vth(1) threshold of the IRIS4013K, but in this case the input voltage is 230VAC, so the feedback has generated an offset voltage to reduce the peak current in the transformer, and hence the source voltage ramps to about 0.4V, which keeps the output power constant. Fig 5) Drain (D) voltage of IRIS4013K (CH1) and the source(S) pin voltage (CH3) at 90VAC in/3A load output Fig 5) shows the same waveforms as in fig 4), but this time with a 90VAC input and a 3A load. Note that under these conditions the current ramp is less steep due to the lower voltage across the transformer primary winding, and The source pin voltage ramps to a higher level in order to get the correct amount of energy into the transformer. Remember that the energy stored is 1/2LI2 and V=LdI/dt so with a lower voltage across the transformer the rate of change of current is lower, so it will take longer to reach the same primary current level. 6 www.irf.com IRISMPS3 Fig 6) Drain (D) voltage of IRIS4013K (CH1) and the FB pin voltage (CH3) at 110VAC in/no load output Fig 6) again shows the drain and FB pin voltages, but this time with a 110VAC and a no load condition. In this case the circuit is operating in the PRC mode with a fixed off time of 50us as can be seen on the waveform. The on time is very short as the only energy required is the energy needed to keep the circuit operating and hold the output at 15V. Under these conditions the input power consumed is 488mW, which meets the Energystar and Blue Angel Requirements. Fig 7)Drain (D) voltage of IRIS4013K (CH1) and the FB pin voltage (CH3) at 230VAC in/no load output www.irf.com 7 IRISMPS3 Fig 7) shows the same details as in fig 6), but at 230VAC input, in this case you can see the on time is even shorter as it takes very little time to get the energy required into the transformer. Again the circuit is operating in PRC mode with an input power of 825mW which again meets the Energystar and Blue Angel requirements for no load standby power. Fig 8)Drain (D) voltage of IRIS4013K (CH1)/Vcc Voltage (CH2)/ FB pin voltage (CH3)/Load Current (CH4) at 120VAC in/no load output Fig 8) shows the circuit changing from Quasi-resonant mode to PRC mode due to a load change. The load change can be seen by the drop on CH4, as this occurs we see the quasi-resonant info on the FB pin (CH3) disappear after a short time due to the drop in voltage at the bias winding. This is a result of a high feedback current from the opto ISO1 as the output voltage tries to go higher to compensate for the drop in load current. At this point we see the feedback level is high enough to stop the drain from switching as can be seen by the flat part of the waveform on CH1. Eventually the circuit stabilizes and the circuit starts operating again in the PRC mode with a reduced Vcc and no quasi-resonant info on the FB pin. Efficiency In this section we will show the efficiency of the circuit under various conditions. Fig 9) shows a graph of the efficiency vs AC input voltage for a full load output. This shows the efficiency well above the 85% level for most of the input range. Fig 10) shows the efficiency vs load current for various input voltages. 8 www.irf.com IRISMPS3 Full Load Efficiency vs Input Voltage 90 85 Efficiency 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 90 120 170 220 265 AC Input Voltage Fig.9) Efficiency vs Load Current 100 90 80 Efficiency 70 60 90V 120V 50 170V 40 220V 30 265V 20 10 0 0.1 0.5 1 1.5 2 3 4 Load Current (A) Fig.10) www.irf.com 9 IRISMPS3 Standby/No Load Power Consumption Fig 11) shows the standby or no load power consumption vs AC input voltage, showing that over the entire voltage range the power consumption is less than 1W ensuring it complies with the Energystar/Blue Angel requirements. No Load Power vs Input Voltage No Load Power (W) 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 90 120 170 220 265 AC Input Voltage Fig 11) Temperature (°C) Component Temp vs. AC Input Voltage (Ta=25°C) 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 D1 U1 T2CORE T2WIND 90 170 264 AC Input Voltage 10 www.irf.com IRISMPS3 Output Ripple Fig 12) shows the output ripple of the power supply with a 90VAC input and full load 4A output. Peak to peak ripple is 100mV. the waveform is shown Bandwidth limited to remove HF noise from the measurement. Fig 12) Output Ripple Voltage at 90VAC input / Full Load output www.irf.com 11 IRISMPS3 Transient Response Fig 13) Transient Response at 90VAC in Fig 13) shows the transient response of the power supply with a 90VAC input. The load change is set to change from 2.5A to 1.5A which is a 50% load typical setting +25%. 12 www.irf.com IRISMPS3 Top Board Layout www.irf.com 13 IRISMPS3 Bottom Board Layout 14 www.irf.com IRISMPS3 WORLD HEADQUARTERS: 233 Kansas St., El Segundo, California 90245 Tel: (310) 252-7105 http://www.irf.com/ Data and specifications subject to change without notice. 2/13/2001 www.irf.com 15