L6599A

Application information

Doc ID 15308 Rev 7

19/35

Figure 24.

Burst mode implementation: a) narrow input voltage range; b) wide input

voltage range

Essentially, RFmax defines the switching frequency fmax above which the L6599A enters

burst mode operation. Once fmax is fixed, RFmax is found from the relationship:

Equation 3

transformer peak currents are low enough not to cause audible noise.

Resonant converter switching frequency, however, depends also on the input voltage;

therefore, in the case of quite a large input voltage range with the circuit of

Figure 24a, the

arrangement shown in

Figure 24b, where the information on the converter input voltage is

added to the voltage applied to the STBY pin. Due to the strongly non-linear relationship

between switching frequency and input voltage, it is more practical to find empirically the

LINE pin voltage (see

Section 7.6: Line sensing function).

Whichever circuit is in use, its operation can be described as follows. As the load falls below

drive outputs low, so that both MOSFETs of the half bridge leg are in OFF-state. The voltage

response to the energy burst and stops the IC. In this way, the converter works in a burst

mode fashion with a nearly constant switching frequency. A further load decrease then

causes a frequency reduction, which can go down even to few hundred hertz. The timing

diagram of

Figure 25 illustrates this kind of operation, showing the most significant signals.

A small capacitor (typically in the hundred pF) from the STBY pin to ground, placed as close

to the IC as possible to reduce switching noise pick-up, helps obtain clean operation.

To help the designer meet energy saving requirements even in power-factor-corrected

systems, where a PFC pre-regulator precedes the DC-DC converter, the L6599A allows that

the PFC pre-regulator can be turned off during burst mode operation, therefore eliminating

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