Application information

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The overall losses are:

Equation 32

Equation 33

The junction temperature of the device is:

Equation 34

HSO8 package and mounted on the board is about 40 °C/W.

Assuming the ambient temperature is around 40 °C, the estimated junction temperature is:

Equation 35

7.4

Short-circuit protection

In overcurrent protection mode, when the peak current reaches the current limit threshold,

the device disables the power element and it is able to reduce the conduction time down to

the minimum value (approximately 100 nsec typ.) to keep the inductor current limited. This

is the pulse-by-pulse current limitation to implement the constant current protection feature.

In overcurrent condition, the duty cycle is strongly reduced and, in most applications, this is

enough to limit the switch current to the current threshold.

The inductor current ripple during ON and OFF phases can be written as:



ON phase

Equation 36



OFF phase

Equation 37





DS(on)_LS





2

1D

–











++

+



=

0,14 0,7



12

+

0,7 12 10

9

–

850 10

3

12 1,5 10

3

–



+









+



205mW



=

–



+

=

60 0,205 40 68

C





+

=



–

+

 I



–

L



=



+

 I



+



–

L



=