NX2309
This power dissipation should not exceed maxi-
mum power dissipation of the driver device.
Power MOSFETs Selection
The NX2309 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
Over Current Limit Protection
Over current Limit for step down converter is
achieved by sensing current through the low side
MOSFET. For NX2309, the current limit is decided by
the RDSON of the low side mosfet. When synchronous
FET is on, and the voltage on SW pin is below 240mV,
the over current occurs. The over current limit can be
calculated by the following equation.
loss contribution of MOSFETs to the overall converter
efficiency. In this design example, two IRFR3706 are
used.They have the following parameters: VDS=30V, ID
=75A,RDSON =9mW,QGATE =23nC.
There are two factors causing the MOSFET power
loss:conduction loss, switching loss.
Conduction loss is simply defined as:
ISET = 240mV/RDSON
The MOSFET RDSON is calculated in the worst case
situation, then the current limit for MOSFET IRFR3706
is
P
HCON =IOUT2 ´ D´ RDS(ON) ´ K
LCON=IOUT2 ´ (1- D)´ RDS(ON) ´ K
PTOTAL =P + P
P
240mV
RDSON
240mV
...(23)
ISET
=
=
= 17A
1.4´ 9mW
HCON
LCON
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 IRFR3706 datasheet. Conduction
loss should not exceed package rating or overall sys-
tem thermal budget.
LDO Selection Guide
NX2309 offers a LDO controller. The selection of
MOSFET to meet LDO is more straight forward. The
selection is that the Rdson of MOSFET should meet the
dropout requirement. For example.
VLDOIN =1.8V
VLDOOUT =1.2V
Switching loss is mainly caused by crossover
conduction at the switching transition. The total
switching loss can be approximated.
ILoad =2A
The maximum Rdson of MOSFET should be
RRDSON = (VLDOIN - VLDOOUT )´ ILOAD
= (1.8V - 1.2V) / 2A = 0.3W
1
PSW
=
´ V ´ IOUT ´ TSW ´ F
IN S
...(24)
2
Most of MOSFETs can meet the requirement. More
important is that MOSFET has to be selected right pack-
age to handle the thermal capability. For LDO, maxi-
mum power dissipation is given as
and TF which can be found in mosfet datasheet, and FS
is switching frequency. Swithing loss PSW is frequency
dependent.
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:
PLOSS = (VLDOIN - VLDOOUT )´ ILOAD
= (1.8V- 1.2V)´ 2A =1.2W
Select IR MOSFET IRFR3706 with 9mW RDSON is
sufficient.
P
= (QHGATE ´ VHGS + QLGATE ´ VLGS )´ FS
...(25)
gate
LDO Compensation
where QHGATE is the high side MOSFETs gate
The diagram of LDO controller including VCC regu-
charge,QLGATE is the low side MOSFETs gate charge,VHGS
is the high side gate source voltage, and VLGS is the low
side gate source voltage.
lator is shown in above figure 9. For low frequency ca-
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