L6564

Application information

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Figure 36

pin, the IC will not work properly if the pin is either left floating or connected directly to

ground.

Figure 36.

current

The dynamics of the voltage feedforward input, that is the output of the multiplier, is limited

downwards at 0.8 V (see Figure 35), so that cannot increase any more if the voltage on the

VFF pin is below 0.8 V. This helps to prevent excessive power flow when the line voltage is

lower than the minimum specified value.

6.4

THD optimizer circuit

The L6564 is provided with a special circuit that reduces the conduction dead-angle

occurring to the AC input current near the zero-crossings of the line voltage (crossover

distortion). In this way the THD (total harmonic distortion) of the current is considerably

reduced.

A major cause of this distortion is the inability of the system to transfer energy effectively

when the instantaneous line voltage is very low. This effect is magnified by the high-

frequency filter capacitor placed after the bridge rectifier, which retains some residual

voltage that causes the diodes of the bridge rectifier to be reverse-biased and the input

current flow to temporarily stop.

To overcome this issue the device forces the PFC pre-regulator to process more energy

near the line voltage zero-crossings as compared to that commanded by the control loop.

This will result in both minimizing the time interval where energy transfer is lacking and fully

discharging the high-frequency filter capacitor after the bridge.

Figure 37

shows the internal block diagram of the THD optimizer circuit.

FF

FF

L

3

C

R

f

2

100

%

D

π

=

 

D %

3

0.1110

0.01

0.1

1

10

f = 50 Hz

L

f = 60 Hz

L

R · C

[s]

FF

FF