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News Release from: Vishay Siliconix | Subject: SiP280x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 November 2004
Switching frequencies to 1MHz and higher
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SiP280x pulsewidth modulation (PWM) controllers serve as versatile, low-cost building blocks for a broad variety of convertors.
A new family of low-power current-mode controllers provides increased efficiency and flexibility in cost-sensitive power-supply designs The first true direct replacements for the industry-standard UCC380x and UCC280x families of low-power current-mode controllers, the new SiP280x pulsewidth modulation (PWM) controllers serve as versatile, low-cost building blocks for a broad variety of convertors in both offline and DC/DC current-mode switching power supplies in industrial, fixed telecomms and datacomms applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SiP280x series provides improved power supply efficiency relative to the older UC384x/UC284x devices by taking advantage of Siliconix's advanced BiCMOS design and processing.
This yields significantly lower startup and operating current requirements of 100 and 500uA, respectively.
The low startup current substantially reduces dissipation in any dropping resistors required for startup of the part, and the minimised operating current drastically cuts the amount of power that must be supplied to a SiP280x controller merely to power the IC.
The lower startup and operating currents additionally allow the SiP280x devices to use smaller external capacitors from the VCC pin to ground.
The BiCMOS process with which these parts are built and their on-chip +/-1A totempole output drivers enable the SiP280x controllers to operate usefully at frequencies up to 1MHz.
This ability for higher-frequency operation allows the use of smaller power inductors and capacitors in many power supply designs.
With an internal soft-start mechanism that is active at power-on and under fault conditions, the SiP280X controllers reduce stress on external components, thereby enhancing power supply performance and reliability.
The new ICs also feature built-in leading-edge blanking on the current sense pin.
This blanking eliminates the need for external filter components while keeping voltage spikes from triggering the parts' current comparators, ensuring that the current-regulation loop and the overcurrent limiter circuits function properly.
The SiP280x family's combination of automatic soft-start and leading-edge blanking simplifies circuit design.
As a result, designers are able to optimise power supply performance for normal operating conditions, with reduced component count as compared to previous solutions.
At the same time, the ICs provide an automatic and elegant "hiccup-mode" protection (overcurrent shutdown with soft-start retry) feature that protects the supply and its load during severe fault conditions.
The SiP280x series also features a variety of turn-on and turn-off thresholds to accommodate various supply voltage, UVLO and hysteresis requirements.
The controllers are rated for an operating temperature range of -40 to +85C.
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