FAIRCHILD SG6902

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Applying SG6902 to Control a CCM PFC and
Flyback/PWM Power Supply
Summary
Description
This application note shows a step-by-step design to a
120W/24V power adapter. The equations also can be
applied to different output voltages and wattages.
SG6902 is designed for power supplies that consist of boost
PFC and flyback PWM. It requires few external
components to achieve green-mode operation and versatile
protections and compensations.
Features
The proprietary interleave switching synchronizes the PFC
and PWM stages and reduces switching noise. At light
loads, PFC stage is turned off to save power and the PWM
switching frequency is decreased in response to the load.
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Interleaved PFC/PWM Switching
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Average-Current-Mode Control for PFC
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Green-Mode PFC/PWM Switching
No PFC Switching at Light Loads for Power Saving
Innovative Switching Charge Multiplier-divider
Low Startup and Operating Current
Innovative Switching Charge Multiplier-divider
Multi-vector Control for Improved PFC Output
Transient Response
Programmable Two-Level PFC Output Voltage to
Achieve the Best Efficiency
PFC Over-voltage and Under-voltage Protections
For PFC stage, the proprietary multi-vector control scheme
provides a fast transient response in a low-bandwidth PFC
loop. The overshoot and undershoot of the PFC voltage are
clamped. If the feedback loop is broken, SG6902 shuts off
the switching to protect the power supply and its load.
For the flyback PWM stage, the synchronized slope
compensation ensures the stability of the current loop.
“Hiccup” operation limits a maximum output power during
the overload situations.
The difference between members of this family are shown
in the table below.
PFC and PWM Feedback Open-loop Protection
Parameter
SG6902
SG6901A
Cycle-by-cycle Current Limiting for PFC/PWM
Start Threshold Voltage
16V
12V
Slope Compensation for PWM
Minimum Operating Voltage
10V
10V
Maximum Power Limit for PWM
The Interval of OPFC Lags
Behind OPWM at Startup
11.5ms
11.5ms
PFC On/Off
O
X
OTP
O
O
Soft-Start
O
O
Brownout Protection
Over Temperature Protection
Power-on Sequence Control and Soft-start
20-Pin SOP and SSOP Packages
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Pin Configuration
Figure 1. Pin Configuration
Typical Application
Figure 2. Typical Application
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Block Diagram
Figure 3. Block Diagram
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PFC Section
Because the capacitor includes ±20% variation, the
capacitor 100µF is chosen.
Power-On Sequence
SG6902 is active when the line voltage is higher than the
brownout threshold. The PWM stage is switching first,
then, following an 11.5ms delay time after FBPWM
voltage is higher than a PFC turn-on threshold voltage,
the PFC stage is enabled.
PFC Inductor
The switching frequency fS, output power POUT,
efficiency n, maximum ripple current ΔI, and minimum
input voltage VIN.min should be defined before determining
the inductance of PFC inductor. The following equations
are utilized to determine the inductance of the PFC
inductor. Normally the maximum ripple current is 20% ~
30% of maximum input current.
ΔI =
2 (POUT / η × 0.3 )
VIN(MIN)
Boost Rectifier and Switch
The fast reverse-recovery time of the boost diode is
required to reduce the power losses and the EMI. A 500V
voltage rating is chosen to withstand 400V boosts
potential. The average current and peak currents flow
through the boost diode and the switch, respectively, and
are given by:
(1)
V
× 2
D = 1 − IN. min
VO
V =L
Figure 4. Interleaving Switching
IAVG =
2 × 2 × POUT / η
π × VRMS(Brownout )
IAVG =
2 × 2 × 120 / 0.8
= 1 .8 A
π × 75
(2)
di
dt
IPEAK = 2 ×
(3)
IPEAK = 2 ×
V
× 2 × Dmax / fs
L = IN.min
ΔI
(4)
fS
(5)
For a 120W power supply, the capacitor is determined as:
2 × (120 W / 0.85 ) × 15ms
(250 − 20 )2 − 602
= 86 μF
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=
1560
(KHz )
RI ( KΩ )
(8)
SG6902 provides an off-time modulation to reduce the
switching frequency in light-load and no-load conditions.
The feedback voltage of FBPWM pin is taken as
reference. When the feedback voltage is lower than about
2.1V, the switching frequency decreases accordingly.
Most of losses in a switching-mode power supply are
proportional to the switching frequency; therefore, the
off-time modulation reduces the power consumption of
the power supply in light-load and no-load conditions.
For a typical case of RI = 24KΩ, the switching frequency
is 65kHz at nominal load and decreases to 20kHz at light
load. The switching signal is disabled if the switching
frequency falls below 20KHz, which avoids acoustic noise.
where VO.min is the minimum output voltage in accordance
with the requirement of the specification.
CO >
120 / 0.8
= 2.82 A
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For example, a 24kΩ resistor RI results in a 65kHz
switching frequency. The recommended range for the
switching frequency is 33kHz ~ 100kHz.
An advantage of using interleaving switching of PFC and
PWM stage is to reduce the switching noise. The ESR
requirement of boost capacitor is relaxed. The boost
capacitor value is chosen to remain a hold-up time of
output voltage in the event line voltage is removed.
(VO(normal ) − Vripple )2 − VO.min2
VRMS(Brownout )
The resistor RI connected from the RI to GND pin
programs the switching frequency of SG6902.
PFC Capacitor
2 × (POUT /ηPWM ) × t hold -up
(7)
Oscillation and Green Mode
For a 120W adapter power, η= 0.85, VIN(MIN) = 90VAC,
fS = 65KHz, VO = 250V, ΔI = 0.66A, D = 0.49, L =
0.4mH.
CO =
POUT / η
For stability reasons, a capacitor connecting the RI pin to
GND is not suggested.
(6)
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fs
20KHz
2.1
FBPWM(V)
Figure 5. Switching Frequency vs. FB Voltage
To save power, the PFC stage is enabled only when the
feedback voltage of the FBPWM pin is higher than a
threshold voltage VTH. The threshold voltage VTH is 2.1V
to 2.45V at low line voltage input, 1.95V at high line
voltage. The threshold voltage VTH determines an output
power threshold to turn on/off the PFC stage for the
power saving. The output power POUT can be expressed
as:
POUT =
η × (VIN × t ON )2
2 × LP × t
⎫⎪
⎧⎪ VIN(PEAK )
V
VFB = 1.2 V + 3 × ⎨
× RS × t ON + SL × t ON ⎬
LP
t
⎪⎭
⎪⎩
Figure 6. Linear Range
Line Voltage Detection (VRMS)
Figure 6 shows a resistive divider with low-pass filter
connected to the VRMS pin for line-voltage detection.
The VRMS input is used for the PFC multiplier and
brownout protection.
(9)
For a sine wave input voltage, the voltage on the VRMS
pin is directly proportional to input voltage. To achieve
the brownout protection, the PFC stage is disabled after a
195ms delay once the VRMS voltage drops below 0.8V.
The PWM stage is protected through the open-loop
detection on the FBPWM pin when the output voltage of
the PFC stage is too low. After that, SG6902 turns off.
When VRMS voltage is higher than 0.98V, the SG6902
restarts in accordance with power-on sequence of PFC
and PWM stages.
(10)
where VSL is a synchronized 0.5V ramp.
Equation 10 shows that, through the feedback loop, the
on-time tON changes in response to the change of the
switching period t and/or the inductance LP (the primary
inductance of the transformer) for providing a same
output power. Because the feedback voltage VFB controls
the on-time tON, a lower VFB causes a narrow on-time tON.
Changing the switching frequency (the switching period
t) and the inductance LP, affects the output power
threshold to on/off the PFC stage.
For example, a brownout protection is set as 75VAC. The
RRMS and RI can be determined as:
VIN(MEAN ) = VIN × 2 ×
IAC Signal
Figure 6 shows that the IAC pin is connected to the input
voltage via a resistor. A current IAC is used for PFC
multiplier.
IAC(PEAK ) ≈
VIN(PEAK )
R AC
VRMS =
2
π
2
R1
× VIN × 2 ×
π
R1 + RRMS
(13)
(14)
The threshold of VRMS = 0.8V. If RRMS = 4.8MΩ and
VIN = 75VAC, the value of R1 is 56.8KΩ.
(11)
For wide range input:
VIN(PEAK ) = 264 V × 2 = 374 V
(12)
The linear range of IAC is 0~360µA. A 1.2M resistor is
suggested for a wide input range (90VAC ~ 264VAC).
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Cycle-by-cycle Current Limiting
PFC Operation
SG6902 provides cycle-by-cycle current limiting for both
PFC and PWM stages. Figure 8 shows the peak current
limit for the PFC stage. The switching signal of PFC
stage is turned off immediately once the voltage on
ISENSE pin goes below the threshold voltage VPK.
The voltage of VRMS determines the threshold voltage
VPK. The correlation of the threshold voltage VPK and
VRMS is shown in Figure 8. The amplitude of the
constant current IP shown in Figure 8 is determined by a
reference current IT, in accordance with the following
equation as:
Figure 7. Current Output
The current source output from the switching charge
multiplier/divider can be expressed as:
I × VEA
IMO = K × AC
( μA )
VRMS 2
Ip = 2 × IT = 2 ×
(I × RP ) − 0.2V
IS _ PEAK = P
RS
According to Figure 7, the current output from IMP pin,
IMP, is the summation of IMO and IMR1. The resistor R2 is
equipped as same as R3. The constant current source IMR1
is identical with IMR2. They are used to bias (pull HIGH)
the operating point of the IMP and IPFC pins since the
voltage across RS goes negative with respect to ground.
Through the differential amplification of the signal across
RS, a better noise immunity is acjoeved. The output of IEA
compared with an internal sawtooth generates a switching
signal for PFC. Through the feedback loop of the average
current control mode, the input current IS is proportional
to IMO:
Multi-vector Error Amplifier
According to this equation, the minimum value of R2 and
maximum value of RS can be determined. The IMO should
be estimated under its specified maximum value.
A concern in determining the value of the sense resistor
RS includes low-resistance RS reduces the power
consumption, but high-resistance RS provides high
resolution to achieve low input current THD (total
harmonic distortion). Using a current transformer (CT)
instead of RS improves the efficiency for high-power
converters.For a 120W adapter, the power consumption of
RS = 0.36Ω is:
2
R2
and
R3
can
be
(the brownout threshold is 75V):
120W/0.8
IMAX =
× 2 = 2.83A
75V
R S × IMAX
IMO =
R2
To achieve good power factor, the voltage for VRMS and
VEA should be kept as DC-value according to Equation
14. In other words, a low-pass RC filtering for VRMS and a
narrow bandwidth (lower than the line frequency) of PFC
voltage loop are suggested to achieve better input current
shaping. The trans-conductance error amplifier has output
impedance RO (>90kΩ). A capacitor CEA (1µF ~ 10µF) is
suggested to connect from the output of the error
amplifier to ground (Figure 9). A dominant pole f1 of the
PFC voltage loop is shown as:
f1 =
(17)
determined
1
2π × RO × CEA
(21)
The average total input power can be expressed as:
as
PIN = VIN(RMS ) × IIN(RMS )
∞VRMS × IMO
I × VEA
∞VRMS × AC
VRMS 2
(18)
0.36 × 2.83
IMO =
= 308μ0
3.3K
∞VRMS ×
The results show that RS, R2, and R3 values are fit for
providing 120W output.
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(20)
Figure 8. Current Limit
(16)
⎛ 120 W / 0.85 ⎞
PRS = ⎜
⎟ × 0.36 = 0.885 W
90
⎝
⎠
(19)
Therefore, the peak current of the IS can be expressed as:
(15)
IMO × R 2 = IS × RS
1 .2 V
RI
VIN
× VEA
R AC
VRMS 2
(22)
∞VEA
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Determine the resistor divider ratio RA/RB:
RA
V
= O −1
RB
3
(25)
R A 250
=
− 1 = 82 .33
RB
3
(26)
Assume RA = 3MΩ, RB = 36.5KΩ, and RC = 60KΩ. Refer to
Figure 10. At high line input, maximum output voltage is:
⎛ RA
⎞
+ 1⎟⎟ = 420 V
VO(MAX ) = 3.15× = ⎜⎜
⎝ RB // RC
⎠
(27)
Another circuit provides further over-voltage protection
to inhibit the PFC switching once the feedback voltage
exceeds the 3.25V the output voltage is clamped at:
Figure 9. Multi-vector Error Amplifier
⎛ RA
⎞
+ 1⎟⎟ = 433 V
VO(OVP ) = 3.25 × ⎜⎜
R
//
R
C
⎝ B
⎠
Equation 22 shows the output of the voltage error
amplifier, VEA, controls the total input power and the
power delivered to the load.
Although the PFC stage has a low bandwidth voltage loop
for better input power factor, the innovative multi-vector
error amplifier provides a fast transient response to clamp
the overshoot and undershoot of PFC output voltage.
(28)
VO (PFC)
+
VEA
Figure 10 shows the block diagram of the multi-vector
error amplifier. When the variation of the feedback
voltage (FBPFC) exceeds ±5% of the reference voltage
(3V), the trans-conductance error amplifier programs its
output current to speed up the loop response. If RA is
open circuit, SG6902 is turned off immediately to prevent
over-voltage on the output capacitor.
RA
3V
FBPFC
RC
RANGE
RB
SG69XX
Figure 10.
Two-level PFC Output voltage
For universal input (90VAC ~ 264VAC), the output voltage
of PFC is usually designed to 250V at low line and 400V
at high line. This improves efficiency of the power
converter for low-line input. The RANGE pin (opendrain) is used for the two-level output voltage setting.
Feedback Voltage of PFC
PWM SECTION
Soft-starting the PWM stage
Figure 10 shows the RANGE output that programs the
PFC output voltage. The RANGE output is shorted to
ground when the VRMS voltage exceeds 1.95V. It is a
high-impedance output (open) whenever the VRMS voltage
drops below 1.6V. The output voltages can be determined
using below equations:
The soft-start pin controls the rising time of the output
voltage and prevents the overshoot during power on. The
soft-start capacitor value for the soft-start period tSS is
given by:
Range = Open ⇒ VO =
R A + RB
× 3V
RB
(23)
where VOZ is the zero-duty threshold of FBPWM voltage.
Range = GND ⇒ VO =
R A + (RB // RC )
× 3V
(RB // RC )
(24)
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I
CSS = t SS × SS
VOZ
(29)
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Leading-Edge Blanking (LEB)
A voltage signal develops on the current-sense resistor RS
represents the switching current of MOSFET. Each time
the MOSFET turns on, a spike, caused by the diode
reverse recovery time and by the parasitic capacitances of
the MOSFET, appears on the sensed signal. The SG6902
has a build-in leading-edge blanking time of about 350ns
to avoid premature termination of MOSFET by the spike.
Only a small-value RC filter (e.g. 100Ω + 47pF) is
required between the IPWM pin and RS to prevent
negative spike into the IPWM pin. A non-inductive
resistor for the RS is recommended.
Figure 12.
SG6841
Output Driver of OPFC and OPWM
Gate
Blanking
Circuit
Current Limit and Slope Compensation
SG6902’s OPFC and OPWM is fast totem-pole gate
driver that is able to directly drive external MOSFET. An
internal Zener diode clamps the driver voltage under 18V
to protect MOSFET from over-voltage damage.
Sense
VDD
ON/OFF
Driver
18V
Gate
Figure 11. Turn-on Spike
Flyback PWM and Slope Compensation
As shown in Figure 12, peak-current-mode control is
utilized for flyback PWM. The SG6902 inserts a
synchronized 0.5V ramp at the beginning of each
switching cycle. This built-in slope compensation reduces
the current loop gain and ensures stable operation for
current-mode operation.
SG6841
Figure 13. Gate Drive
Over-Current Protection (OCP) and ShortCircuit Protection (SCP)
When the IPWM voltage, across the sense resistor,
reaches the threshold voltage, 0.65V or 0.7V selected by
RANGE, the OPWM turns off after a small propagation
delay, tPD-PWM. This propagation delay introduces an
additional current proportional to TPD-PWM•VPFC/Lp, where
VPFC is the output voltage of PFC and Lp is the
magnetized inductance of flyback transformer. Since the
propagation delay is nearly constant, higher VPFC results
in a larger additional current and the output power limit is
higher than that of the low VPFC. To compensate for this
variation, the peak current threshold is modulated by the
RANGE output. When RANGE is shorted to GND, the
PFC output voltage is higher and the corresponding
threshold is 0.65V. When RANGE is opened, the PFC
output voltage is lower and the corresponding threshold is
0.7V. Increasing the inductance of transformer improves
this phenomenon.
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OCP and SCP are based on detection of feedback signal
on FBPWM pin. Shown in Figure 14, if over-current or
short-circuit occurs, FBPWM is pulled HIGH through the
feedback loop. If the FB voltage is higher than 4.5V for
longer than 56ms debounce time, SG6902 is turned off.
Once VDD is lower than the turn-off threshold voltage,
such as 10V, SG6902 is UVLO (under-voltage lockout)
shut down. By the startup resistor, VDD is charged (up to
the turn-on threshold voltage 16V) until SG6902 is
enabled again. If the overloading condition still exists, the
protection takes place repeatedly. This prevents the power
supply from being overheated in overloading condition.
The 650ms time-out signal prevents SG6902 from being
latched off when the input voltage is fast on/off.
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Figure 14.
Over-Current Protection or Short-Circuit Protection
Referring to the maximum duty cycle and minimum input
voltage at full load, the transformer inductance can be
calculated as:
Over-Temperature Protection (OTP)
SG6902 provides an OTP pin for over-temperature
protection. A constant current is output from this pin. If
RI is equal to 24kΩ, the magnitude of the constant current
is 100µA. An external NTC thermistor must be connected
from this pin to ground as shown in Figure 15. When the
OTP voltage drops below 1.2V, SG6902 is disabled until
OTP voltage exceeds 1.4V.
Dmax =
LP =
n × (VO + Vf )
VIN. min + n × (VO + Vf )
(32)
η × (VIN max × Dmax )2
(33)
2 × POUT × fS × Br
where Br is how much percentage of the output power is
into CCM in low line input voltage. Normally, the Br is
set as 30% ~ 50%. VIN.min = 250V.
iav
Δi p
i pk
Figure 15.
I sq
Over-Temperature Protection
Flyback Transformer Design
The turn ratio n = Np/Ns, is an important parameter for a
flyback power converter. It affects the maximum duty of
the switching signal when the input voltage is in
minimum value. It also influences the voltage stresses of
the MOSFET and the secondary rectifier.
d max
Figure 16. Primary Current Waveform
Refer to Equations 30 and 31. If n increases, the voltage
stress of the MOSFET increases; however, the voltage
stress of the secondary rectifier decreases accordingly.
VDS. max = VIN. max + n × (VO + Vf )
Figure 16 shows the primary current waveform. Once the
inductor LP is determined, the primary peak current Ipk
and average current Iav, at the full load and low line input
voltage, can be expressed as:
(30)
IAV =
V
x
VAK. max = IN.ma + VO
n
(31)
PO
η × VIN. max × Dmax
V
ΔIP = IN. max × Dmax × TS
LP
where Vf is the forward voltage of output diode and
VIN.max = 400V.
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1-d max
(34)
(35)
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ΔIP
+ IAV
2
(36)
ISQ = IPK − ΔIP
(37)
IPK =
Figure 17 shows a transformer winding structure,
including primary winding (Np1), copper layer (shield),
secondary winding (Ns), auxiliary winding (AUX),
copper layer (shield), and primary winding (Np2).
Because the auxiliary winding is between secondary
winding and shield windings, it can alleviate the variation
of VDD voltage and avoid the VDD voltage reaching the
over-voltage threshold of 24.5V for normal operation.
From Faraday’s law, the turns of primary side can be
expressed as:
NP =
LP × IPK
× 108
Bmax × A e
(38)
The turns of auxiliary winding can be expressed as:
Naux =
NP × (VDD + Vfa ) × (1 − Dmax )
VIN. max × Dmax
(39)
where VDD is set to around 12V and Vfa is the forward
voltage of VDD rectifier diode.
Transformer Winding Structure
Figure 17.
The auxiliary winding of the transformer is developed to
provide a power source (VDD voltage) to the control
circuit. To produce a regulated VDD voltage, the reflected
voltage of the auxiliary winding is designed to correlate
to the output voltage of secondary winding. A switching
voltage spike, caused by the leakage inductance of the
primary winding, would be coupled to the auxiliary
winding to increase the VDD voltage in response to the
increase of the load.
Lab Note
Before rework or solder/desolder on the power supply,
discharge primary capacitors by external bleeding
resistor. Otherwise, the PWM IC may be destroyed by
external high voltage during solder/desolder.
This device is sensitive to ESD discharge. To improve
production yield, the production line should be ESD
protected according to ANSI ESD S1.1, ESD S1.4, ESD
S7.1, ESD STM 12.1, and EOS/ESD S6.1
When the VDD voltage is increased higher than the
voltage of the over-voltage protection 24.5V, the control
circuit turns off the PWM and PFC stages to protect the
power supply. Therefore, the transformer windings
should prevent the auxiliary winding from primary
winding interference.
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Winding Structure
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Printed Circuit Board Layout
To provide a good ground reference and reduce the
switching noise of both the PFC and PWM stages, the
ground traces 6 and 7 should be located very near and be
low impedance.
Note that SG6902 has two ground pins. Good highfrequency or RF layout practices should be followed.
Avoid long PCB traces and component leads. Locate
decoupling capacitors near the SG6902. A resistor (5 ~
20Ω) is recommended, connected in series from the
OPFC and OPWM to the gate of the MOSFET.
The IPFC pin is connected directly to RS through R3 to
improve noise immunity (beware that it may incorrectly
be connected to the ground trace 2). The IMP and
ISENSE pins should also be connected directly via the
resistors R2 and RP to another terminal of RS. Due to the
ground trace 4 and 5 is PFC and PWM stages Current
loop, which should be as short as possible.
Isolating the interference between the PFC and PWM
stages is also important. Figure 18 shows an example of
the PCB layout. The ground trace connected from the
AGND pin of SG6902 to the decoupling capacitor, which
should be low impedance and as short as possible. The
ground trace 1 provides a signal ground. It should be
connected directly to the decoupling capacitor VDD and/or
to the AGND pin of the SG6902. The ground trace 2
shows that the AGND pins should connect to the PFC
output capacitor CO independently. The ground trace 3 is
independently tied from the PGND to the PFC output
capacitor CO. The ground in the output capacitor CO is the
major ground reference for power switching.
Figure 18.
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Related Datasheets
SG6902 — Green Mode PFC / Flyback PWM Controller
SG6901A — Green Mode PFC / Flyback PWM Controller
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