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APPLICATION NOTE | AN42 |
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Converter Efficiency
Losses due to parasitic resistance in the switches, inductor, and sense resistor dominate at high
•MOSFET I2R Losses
•Inductor Losses
•Sense Resistor Losses
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•Transition Losses
•Input Capacitor Losses
•Losses Due to the Operating Supply Current of the IC.
Efficiency of the converter under heavy loads can be calculated as follows:
Efficiency = | POUT | = | IOUT | ⋅ VOUT | , | |
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where PLOSS = PDMOSFET + PDINDUCTOR + PDRSENSE + PDGATE + PDDIODE + PDTRAN + PDCAP + PDIC
Design Equations:
2 | ⋅ RDS,ON ⋅ DutyCycle , where DutyCycle | VOUT + VD | |
(1) PDMOSFET = IOUT | = | + VD – VSW | |
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(2)PDINDUCTOR = IOUT2 ⋅ RINDUCTOR
(3)PDRSENSE = IOUT2 ⋅ RSENSE
(4)PDGATE = qGATE ⋅ f ⋅ 5V , where qGATE is the gate charge and f is the switching frequency
(5)PDDIODE = Vf ⋅ ID(1 – DutyCycle)
(6) PDTRAN | VIN2 ⋅ CRSS ⋅ ILOAD | ⋅ f |
= | , where CRSS is the reverse transfer capacitance of the | |
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(7)PDCAP = IRMS2 ⋅ ESR
(8)PDIC = VCC ⋅ ICC
Example:
3.3+ 0.5
DutyCycle =
PDMOSFET = 10 2 ⋅ 0.030 ⋅ 0.73 = 2.19W
PDINDUCTOR = 10 2 ⋅ 0.010 = 1W
PDRSENSE = 102 ⋅ 0.0065 = 0.65W
PDGATE = CV ⋅ f ⋅ 5V = 1.75nf ⋅ (9 – 1)V ⋅ 650Khz ⋅ 5V = 0.045W
PDDIODE = 0.5 ⋅ 10(1 – 0.73) = 1.35W
PDTRAN = | 5 2 | ⋅ 400pf ⋅ 10 ⋅ 650khz | ∼ 0.010W |
0.7A |
PDCAP = (7.5 – 2.5)2 ⋅ 0.015 = 0.37W
PDIC = 0.2W
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