L6727

Application information

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10.2

Output capacitors

Output capacitors choice depends on the application constraints in point of output voltage

ripple and output voltage deviation during a load transient.

During steady-state conditions, the output voltage ripple is influenced by ESR and

capacitance of the output capacitors as follows:

Where

ΔI

will be lower than the sum of their moduli. Even ESL and board parasitic inductance can

contribute significantly to output ripple.

During a load variation, the output capacitors supply to the load the additional current or

absorb the current in excess delivered by the inductor until converter reaction is completed.

In fact, even if the controller react immediately to the load transient saturating the duty cycle

to 80 % or 0 %, the current slew rate is limited by the inductance. At first approximation,

output voltage drop, based on ESR and capacitor charge/discharge and considering an

ideal load-step, can be estimated as follows:

Where

ΔV

for

MLCC capacitors typically have low ESR to minimize the ripple but also have low

capacitance that do not minimize the capacitive voltage deviation during load transient. On

the contrary, electrolytic capacitors usually have higher capacitance to minimize capacitive

voltage deviation during load transient, but also higher ESR value resulting in higher ripple

voltage and resistive voltage drop. For these reasons, a mix between electrolytic and MLCC

capacitor is usually suggested to minimize ripple as well as reducing voltage deviation in

dynamic conditions.

10.3

Input capacitors

The input capacitor bank is designed mainly to stand input rms current, which depends on

capacitor ESR:

ΔV

OUT_ESR

ΔI

L

ESR

⋅

=

ΔV

OUT_C

ΔI

L

1

8C

OUT

F

SW

⋅⋅

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⋅

=

ΔV

OUT_ESR

ΔI

OUT

ESR

⋅

=

ΔV

OUT_C

L

ΔI

OUT

2

⋅

2C

OUT

ΔV

L

⋅⋅

--------------------------------------

=

D

MAX

V

IN

V

OUT

–

⋅

I

rms

I

OUT

D1

D

–

()

⋅

⋅

=

PESR I

rms

2

⋅

=