NX2305
One Sanyo OS-CON 16SVP180M 16V 180uF
where QHGATE is the high side MOSFETs gate
20mW with 3.64A RMS rating are chosen as input bulk charge,QLGATE is the low side MOSFETs gate charge,VHGS
capacitors.
is the high side gate source voltage, and VLGS is the low
side gate source voltage.
This power dissipation should not exceed maxi-
mum power dissipation of the driver device.
Power MOSFETs Selection
The NX2305 requires two N-Channel power
MOSFETs. The selection of MOSFETs is based on
maximum drain source voltage, gate source voltage,
maximum current rating, MOSFET on resistance and
power dissipation. The main consideration is the power
Soft Start and Enable
NX2305 has digital soft start for switching control-
ler and has one enable pin for this start up. When the
Power Ready (POR) signal is high and the voltage at
enable pin is above VENTHH, the internal digital counter
starts to operate and the voltage at positive input of Error
amplifier starts to increase, the feedback network will
force the output voltage follows the reference and starts
the output slowly. After 2048 cycles, the soft start is
complete and the output voltage is regulated to the de-
sired voltage decided by the feedback resistor divider.
loss contribution of MOSFETs to the overall converter
efficiency. In this design example, two IRFR3709Z are
used. They have the following parameters: VDS=30V,RDSON
=6.5mW,QGATE =17nC.
There are two factors causing the MOSFET power
loss:conduction loss, switching loss.
Conduction loss is simply defined as:
P
HCON =IOUT2 ´ D´ RDS(ON) ´ K
LCON=IOUT2 ´ (1- D)´ RDS(ON) ´ K
PTOTAL =P + P
P
...(23)
HCON
LCON
Vbus
where the RDS(ON) will increases as MOSFET junc-
tion temperature increases, K is RDS(ON) temperature
dependency. As a result, RDS(ON) should be selected for
the worst case, in which K approximately equals to 1.4
at 125oC according to IRFR3709Z datasheet. Conduc-
tion loss should not exceed package rating or overall
system thermal budget.
POR
ENSW or
ENLDO
R1
R2
Digital
start
up
OFF
10k
ON
ENTHH
V
ENTHL
V
Figure 11 - Enable and Shut down the NX2305
with Enable pin.
Switching loss is mainly caused by crossover
conduction at the switching transition. The total
switching loss can be approximated.
The start up of NX2305 can be programmed through
resistor divider at Enable pin. For example, if the input
bus voltage is 12V and we want NX2305 starts when
Vbus is above 8V. We can select
1
PSW
=
´ V ´ IOUT ´ TSW ´ F
IN S
...(24)
2
where IOUT is output current, TSW is the sum of TR
and TF which can be found in mosfet datasheet, and FS
is switching frequency. Switching loss PSW is frequency
dependent.
(8V - VENTHH )´ R2
R1 =
VENTHH
The NX2305 can be turned off by pulling down the
Enable pin by extra signal MOSFET as shown in the
above Figure. When Enable pin is below VENTHL, the digi-
tal soft start is reset to zero. In addition, all the high side
and low side driver is off and no negative spike will be
generated during the turn off.
Also MOSFET gate driver loss should be consid-
ered when choosing the proper power MOSFET.
MOSFET gate driver loss is the loss generated by dis-
charging the gate capacitor and is dissipated in driver
circuits.It is proportional to frequency and is defined as:
Pgate = (QHGATE ´ VHGS + QLGATE ´ VLGS )´ FS
...(25)
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