SS9175/6 Dual Synchronous DC/DC Controllers With Current Sharing Circuitry FEATURES DESCRIPTION Two sets of integrated MOSFET drivers Fixed operating frequency of 300, 600 or 1000kHz Dual-phase current-sharing controller to minimize ripple and improve transient response Wide input supply range: 4.5V to 16V Programmable output as low as 0.8v Internal error amplifier reference voltage of 0.7V +/- 1% Programmable over-current protection (OCP) with 50% fold-back Over-voltage protection (OVP) Soft-start Remote ON/OFF control High voltage pin up to 30V for bootstrap voltage Power-good output signal provided Current-sharing balance within +/-5% matching (SS9175CS/SS9176CS) Two independent PWM controllers (SS9175) Packaged in SO-20 (9175/CS) or SO-16 (9176CS) The SS9175 is a 20-pin version that is designed for two independent outputs without current sharing capability. APPLICATIONS n n n n The SS9175/6 series are dual-phase synchronous DC/ DC PW M cont rol l ers f or power s u p p l i e s requiring a single high-current output, or two independent outputs with high conversion efficiency. They integrate two sets of internal MOSFET drivers consisting of high-side and low side driving circuits. The internal temperature-independent reference voltage is trimmed to 0.7V +/- 1%, and is connected to the error amplifier’s positive terminal for voltage feedback regulation. The over-current protection (OCP) level, with 50% fold-back, can be programmed by an external resistor. The over-voltage protection (OVP) point is fixed at 25% higher above 0.7V. The soft-start circuit ensures the duty cycle of the PWM output can be gradually and smoothly increased from zero to its desired value. The controllers can be remotely turned ON or OFF to enter into either active or standby mode, respectively. The SS9175/6 series provides three different options: CPU and DSP Vcore Power Supply Graphic cards Telecomm and datacomm POL boards Power supplies requiring two independent outputs The SS9175CS is a 20-pin version designed for current sharing applications. The SS9176CS is a 16-pin version for current sharing applications. TYPICAL APPLICATION CIRCUIT PWRG 1.4v 5V 12V 2.2pF 1uF 7.5uH 1k PWRG IN1 COM VCC CL1+ CL1BST1 DH1 DL1 PGND GND IN2 COM SS/ENB CL2+ CL2BST2 DH2 DL2 BSTC 1k 1uF 7.5uH 50k 10uF 450uF 50k 0.22uF Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY www.SiliconStandard.com 1 of 12 SS9175/6 ORDERING INFORMATION SS917x xx-xx xx Packing: TR tape and reel: TB tubes Fixed operating frequency: 3/6/10 for 300/600/1000kHz Configuration: CS = current sharing; blank = independent outputs (9175 only) Part/package type: 9175 is in SO-20; 9176 is in SO-16 Examples: SS9176CS-10TR SS9176 with current-sharing outputs, 1000kHz in SO-16 on tape and reel SS9175-6TR SS9175 with independent outputs, 600kHz in SO-20 on tape and reel MARKING INFORMATION 16 20 SS9175UU-H SS9176CS-H XXXXXXXYYWWV XXXXXXXYYWWV 1 1 UU: = SS9175 UU: CS = SS9175CS H : 3, 6 or 10 XXXXXXX: Wafer Lot YY: Year; WW: Week V: Assembly Location Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY H : 3, 6 or 10 XXXXXXX: Wafer Lot YY: Year; WW: Week V: Assembly Location www.SiliconStandard.com 2 of 12 SS9175/6 ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM RATINGS Symbol Vcc PGND VBST RT j-a TJ TA Tstg Parameter Test Condition Supply voltage, VCC to GND PGND to GND BST to PGND Thermal resistance, Junction-air Operating junction temperature Operating ambient temperature Storage temperature range ESD Capability, HBM model ESD Capability, Machine model Low impedance source - Value Unit 20 ± 0.7 30 90 -40 to +125 -30 to +85 -65 to +150 2.0 200 V V V °C/W °C °C °C kV V RECOMMENDED OPERATING CONDITIONS Symbol VCC TA Parameter Min. Max. Unit 4.5 0 16 70 V °C Supply voltage Operating ambient temperature ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS (VCC=12V, Ta=25°C) Oscillator Section Symbol Parameter Test Condition Fosc-3 Fosc-6 Fosc-10 fdv fdt DC Max Oscillator frequency -3 version Oscillator frequency -6 version Oscillator frequency -10 version Frequency change with VCC Frequency change with temp. Maximum duty cycle Ta=25°C Ta=25°C Ta=25°C VCC=4.5 to 16V Ta=0 to 70°C Min. Typ. Max. Unit 270 550 920 85 300 600 1000 0.2 0.02 95 330 650 1080 KHz KHz KHz % %/°C % - Error Amplifier Section Symbol Parameter Test Condition Min. Typ. Max. Unit Vref Avol BW PSRR Isource Isink VH COMP VL COMP Internal reference voltage Open-loop voltage gain Unity gain bandwidth Power supply rejection ratio Output source current Output sink current Output voltage Output voltage Ta=25°C - 0.693 45 0.7 50 0.7 55 1.2 - 0.707 - V dB MHz dB mA mA V mV Output Section Symbol Parameter Test Condition Min. Typ. Max. Unit Tr Tf IDH, CH IDH, DIS Rising time Falling time High side source current High side sink current Ta=25°C, CL=10nF Ta=25°C, CL=10nF 1 1 20 20 50 50 nS nS A A Min. Typ. Max. Unit - 5.0 mA 0.5 mA Total Operating Current Section Symbol Parameter Test Condition ICC OP Operating supply current VCC=12V, OUTPUT=1000pF ICC SBY Standby current (disabled) Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY www.SiliconStandard.com 3 of 12 SS9175/6 BLOCK DIAGRAMS SS9175 VCC LDO VDD POR LDO C BSTC BST1 Q D CL1+ R DH1 COMP1 OCP IN1 CL1DL1 OSC PWRGD BG PWRGD BST2 OSC CL2+ DH2 OSC180 IN2 OCP COMP2 DL2 Q D GND CL2- C GND R PGND 25u SS/ENB SS9175CS VCC LDO VDD POR LDO D C BSTC BST1 Q CL1+ R DH1 COMP1 CS IN1 OCP CL1 DL1 OSC PWRGD BG PWRGD BST2 OSC CL2+ DH2 OSC180 CS OCP CL2DL2 Q D GND C GND R PGND 25u SS/ENB Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY www.SiliconStandard.com 4 of 12 SS9175/6 BLOCK DIAGRAMS (cont.) SS9176CS VCC LDO VDD POR LDO C COMP BSTC BST1 Q D CL+ R DH1 CS IN OCP CL1 DL1 OSC BG BST1 OSC PWRGD PWRGD DH2 OSC180 CS OCP CL2DL2 GND GND D C 25u Q R PGND SS/ENB Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY www.SiliconStandard.com 5 of 12 SS9175/6 PIN DESCRIPTIONS Pin No. Symbol Description Function Output of the error amplifier and input to the PWM comparator. It is used for feedback loop compensation. Inverting input of the error amplifier. It is normally connected to the switching power supply output through a resistor divider. 1 (1) PWRGD Power-good 2 (2) IN1 Feedback 3 (3) COMP1 Compensation 4 (4) VCC Power Supply 5 CL1+ Over-current 6 7 (5) 8 (6) 9 (7) 10 (8) CL1BST1 DH1 DL1 PGND Over-current Boost supply High-side drive Low-side drive Driver ground 11 (9) BSTC Buffered supply 12 (10) 13 (11) 14 (12) 15 (13) DL2 DH2 BST2 CL2- Low-side drive High-side drive Boost supply Over-current 16 (14) CL2+ Over-current 17 (15) SS/EN Soft-start/Enable 18 COMP2 [NC] Compensation 19 IN2 [NC] Feedback 20 (16) GND Control ground Output of the error amplifier and input to the PWM comparator. It is used for feedback loop compensation. Supply voltage input. Over-current adjustment and high-side MOSFET supply voltage sense pin. Connect a resistor from this pin to high-side supply voltage. Over-current sense pin. Supply for high-side driver. Connect to bootstrap circuit. High-side MOSFET gate driver pin. Low-side MOSFET gate driver pin. Driver circuit GND supply. Connect to MOSFET’s GND. Voltage supply for internal low-side driver circuit and for high-side bootstrap circuit’s diode input. Its output is 6V if chip supply voltage VCC > 6.5V. If VCC < 6.5V, then BSTC = VCC. Need a 10uF decoupling capacitor connected to PGND. Low-side MOSFET gate driver pin. High-side MOSFET gate driver pin. Supply for high-side driver. Connect to bootstrap circuit. Over-current sense pin. Over-current adjustment and high-side MOSFET supply voltage sense pin. Connect a resistor from this pin to high-side supply voltage. A 25uA internal current source charges an external capacitor for soft start. Pull down this pin to disable the chip. Output of the error amplifier and input to the PWM comparator. It is used for feedback loop compensation. Inverting input of the error amplifier. It is normally connected to the switching power supply output through a resistor divider. Control circuit GND supply. Note: Inside ( ) is the pin assignment for SS9176CS. Inside [ ] is for SS9175CS. PIN CONFIGURATIONS SS9175 SS9176 PWRGD 1 20 GND IN1 2 19 IN2 PWRGD 1 16 GND IN 2 15 SS/ENB COMP1 3 18 COMP2 VCC 4 17 SS/ENB COMP 3 14 CL+ CL1 5 16 CL2+ VCC 4 13 CL2- CL1+ 6 15 CL2- BST1 5 12 BST2 BST1 7 14 BST2 DH1 6 11 DH2 DH1 8 13 DH2 DL1 7 10 DL2 PGND 8 9 BSTC DL1 PGND Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 9 10 PRELIMINARY 12 11 DL2 BSTC www.SiliconStandard.com 6 of 12 SS9175/6 APPLICATION INFORMATION OPERATION Over-current protection The SS9175/6 series controllers integrate two sets of synchronous MOSFET driver circuits with current sharing capability. The following descriptions highlight the advantages of the SS917x designs. Soft-start A 25uA start-up current is provided by the SS/EN pin for the start-up sequence. During this start-up sequence, the SS917x is disabled when the SS/EN pin is less than 1.0V. From 1.0V to 3.0V, PWM output duty cycle is gradually and smoothly increased to its desired value. During this time, the current sharing circuit is disabled for smooth soft start. After 3.0V, the current sharing circuit is enabled and the whole circuit operates normally. Oscillator operation The SS9175/6 series have three versions with different oscillation frequencies. The oscillation frequency is fixed at 300 kHz, 600 kHz or 1 MHz. The voltage amplitude of the internal saw tooth oscillator is from 1.2V to 2.8V. The over-current protection (OCP) is implemented by adding a resistor from the MOSFET supply voltage to the CL+ pin, which sinks a 100uA current source. An internal comparator senses the voltage difference between CL+ and CL- pin. If the CL- pin voltage is lower than the CL+ pin voltage, meaning there is a larger current flowing through the high-side MOSFET, the comparator will trigger the OCP protection. The OCP function also has a 50% fold-back circuit to limit the MOSFET current within the desired over-current value. Output driver The high-side driver uses an external bootstrap circuit to provide the required boost supply voltage. The external bootstrap circuit uses the BSTC output voltage for providing the diode voltage. For the low-side driver, the supply voltage is coming from the BSTC output voltage, which is roughly 6V if VCC is larger than 6.5V.The output stage is designed to ensure zero cross-conduction current. Error amplifier The error amplifier’s inverting input is connected to the IN pin, and the output is connected to the COMP pin. The COMP output is available for external compensation, allowing designers to control the feedback-loop frequency-response. Non-inverting input is not wired out to a pin, but it is internally biased to a fixed 0.7V ± 1% voltage. Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY Current Sharing The dual-phase controller has current-sharing capability to match both channels to within 5%. www.SiliconStandard.com 7 of 12 SS9175/6 APPLICATION INFORMATION (cont.) REFERENCE CIRCUITS Current sharing application using SS9176CS PWRG 1.4v 12v 1uF 7.5uH 2.2pF PWRGD GND IN1 SS/ENB COMP CL2+ VCC CL2BST1 BST2 DH1 DH2 DL1 DL2 PGND BSTC 1k 1uF 7.5uH 50k 450uF 10uF 50k 0.22uF This current sharing circuit is implemented using the SS9176CS. The dual phase MOSFETs must be supplied from the same supply voltage (in this case, from 12V). They can also be supplied from a 5V supply voltage. As there is only a single output voltage (1.4V in this case), the divided voltage is fed back to the IN pin. The VCC supply voltage can be either 12V or 5V, depending on the Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY convenience of PCB layout, but VCC = 12V is recommended. If VCC > 6.5V, the BSTC output is fixed at 6V. This BSTC voltage is used as the supply voltage for the bootstrap circuit’s diodes input. A 10uF capacitor is recommended for BSTC decoupling. A 1k resistor is connected from CL2+ to the MOSFET’s high-side voltage. This 1k resistor is used to program the OCP level. www.SiliconStandard.com 8 of 12 SS9175/6 APPLICATION INFORMATION (cont.) Current sharing application using SS9175CS PWRG 1.4v 5V 12V 2.2pF 1uF 7.5uH 1k PWRGD IN1 COMP1 VCC CL1+ CL1BST1 DH1 DL1 PGND GND IN2 COMP2 SS/ENB CL2+ CL2BST2 DH2 DL2 BSTC 1k 1uF 7.5uH 10uF 450uF 50k 50k 0.22uF This current-sharing circuit is implemented using SS9175CS. The dual phase MOSFETs can be supplied from different supply voltages (in this case, from 12V for channel 2, and 5V for channel 1). They can be supplied from the same supply voltage, too. As there is only a single output voltage (1.4V in this case), the divided voltage is fed back to the IN1 pin. The VCC supply voltage can be either 12V or 5V, depending on the Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY convenience of PCB layout, but VCC = 12V is recommended. If VCC > 6.5V, the BSTC output is fixed at 6V. This BSTC voltage is used as the supply voltage for the bootstrap circuit’s diodes input. A 10uF capacitor is recommended for BSTC decoupling. A 1k resistor is connected from CL2+ to the MOSFET’s high-side voltage. This 1k resistor is used to program the OCP level. www.SiliconStandard.com 9 of 12 SS9175/6 n APPLICATION INFORMATION (cont.) Two independent voltage outputs using SS9175 2.1v PWRG 5V 12V 2.2pF 1uF 7.5uH 50k 450uF 1k PWRGD IN1 COMP1 VCC CL1+ CL1BST1 DH1 DL1 PGND GND 2.2pF IN2 COMP2 SS/ENB CL2+ CL2BST2 DH2 DL2 BSTC 1k 1uF 7.5uH 10uF 25k 450uF 50k 50k 0.22uF For independent outputs, this design is implemented using SS9175. The dual-phase MOSFETs can be supplied from different supply voltages (in this case, from 12V for channel 2, and 5V for channel 1). They can be supplied from the same supply voltage, too. As there are two independent output voltages (2.1V and 1.4V in this case), the divided voltages are fed back to their respective IN1 and IN2 pins. The VCC supply voltage can be either Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY 12V or 5V, depending on the convenience of PCB layout, but VCC = 12V is recommended. If VCC > 6.5V, the BSTC output is fixed at 6V. This BSTC voltage is used as the supply voltage for the bootstrap circuit’s diodes input. A 10uF capacitor is recommended for BSTC decoupling. A 1k resistor is connected from CL1+ and CL2+ to the MOSFET’s high-side voltages. This 1k resistor is used to program the OCP level. www.SiliconStandard.com 10 of 12 SS9175/6 PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS 20 LEAD SOP (unit: inches) Dimensions: Rev.2.02 12/29/2003 PRELIMINARY www.SiliconStandard.com 11 of 12 SS9175/6 PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS (cont.) 16 LEAD SOP (units: inches) Dimensions: Information furnished by Silicon Standard Corporation is believed to be accurate and reliable. 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