LTC1645
APPLICATIO S I FOR ATIO
voltage on the external capacitor CTIMER starts to ramp up
with a slope dv/dt = 2µA/CTIMER. When the voltage reaches
the trip point (1.23V), the timer is reset by pulling the
TIMER pin back to ground. The timer period is
t = (1.23V • CTIMER)/2µA. For a 200ms delay, use a 0.33µF
capacitor.
Electronic Circuit Breaker
The LTC1645 features an electronic circuit breaker func-
tion that protects against short circuits or excessive out-
put currents. By placing sense resistors between the
supply inputs and sense pins of the supplies, the circuit
breaker trips whenever the voltage across either sense
resistor is greater than 50mV for more than 1.5µs. If the
circuit breaker trips, both GATE pins are immediately
pulled to ground and the external N-channels FETs are
quickly turned off (time point 6 in Figure 12). The circuit
breaker resets and another timing cycle starts by taking
CURRENT
RAMPING UP FAULT
RESET FAULT
AND RAMP UP
VCCn
12 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10
ON
VCCn – VSENSEn
TIMER
GATEn
the ON pin below 0.4V and then high as shown at time
point 7.
At the end of the timer cycle (time point 8), the charge
pump turns on again. If the circuit breaker feature is not
required, short the SENSEn pin to VCCn.
If the 1.5µs response time is too fast to reject supply noise,
add external resistors and capacitors RF and CF to the
sense circuit as shown in Figure 13.
The ON Pin
The ON pin is used to control system operation as shown
in Figure 14. At time point 1, the board makes connection
and the supplies power up the chip. At time point 2, the ON
pin goes high and a timer cycle starts as long as both VCC
pins are higher than the undervoltage lockout trip point
(2.23V for VCC1 and 1.12V for VCC2) and an overcurrent
fault is not detected. At the end of the timer cycle (time
point 3), the charge pump is turned on and the GATEn pin
voltages start to ramp up with the output supply voltages,
VOUTn, following one gate-to-source voltage drop lower.
At time point 4, VOUT2 reaches its power-good trip level
(this example assumes the FB pin resistive divider is
connected to VOUT2) and a timing cycle starts. At the end
of the timing cycle (time point 5), RESET goes high and the
power-up process is complete.
RAMPING UP AND
DOWN TOGETHER
RAMPING UP AND
DOWN SEPARATELY
RAMPING UP AND
TURNING OFF FAST
12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
VOUTn
VCCn
RESET
1645 F12
Figure 12. Current Fault Timing
2V
ON
0.8V
0.4V
0V
TIMER
GATE1
RF
CF
VOUT1
VCCn SENSEn GATEn
LTC1645
GATE2
VOUT2
1645 G13
RESET
1645 F14
Figure 13. Extending the Short-Circuit Protection Delay
Figure 14. ON Pin Waveforms
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