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FN9210.1
October 7, 2005
Cascaded MOSFET Application
A 20V N-channel MOSFET is integrated in the boost
regulator. For the applications where the output voltage is
greater than 20V, an external cascaded MOSFET is needed
as shown in Figure 27. The voltage rating of the external
MOSFET should be greater than V
BOOST
.
FIGURE 27. CASCADED MOSFET TOPOLOGY FOR HIGH
OUTPUT VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS
Linear-Regulator Controllers (V
ON
, V
LOGIC
, and
V
OFF
)
The EL7586 and EL7586A include three independent linear-
regulator controllers, in which two are positive output voltage
(V
ON
and V
LOGIC
), and one is negative. The V
ON
, V
OFF
,
and V
LOGIC
linear-regulator controller functional diagrams,
applications circuits are shown in Figures 28, 29, and 30
respectively.
Calculation of the Linear Regulator Base-Emitter
Resistors (R
BL
, R
BP
and R
BN
)
For the pass transistor of the linear regulator, low frequency
gain (Hfe) and unity gain freq. (f
T
) are usually specified in the
datasheet. The pass transistor adds a pole to the loop
transfer function at f
p
= f
T
/Hfe. Therefore, in order to
maintain phase margin at low frequency, the best choice for
a pass device is often a high frequency low gain switching
transistor. Further improvement can be obtained by adding a
base-emitter resistor R
BE
(R
BP
, R
BL
, R
BN
in the Functional
Block Diagram), which increase the pole frequency to:
f
p
= f
T
*(1+ Hfe *re/R
BE
)/Hfe, where re = KT/qIc. So choose
the lowest value R
BE
in the design as long as there is still
enough base current (I
B
) to support the maximum output
current (I
C
).
We will take as an example the V
LOGIC
linear regulator. If a
Fairchild FMMT549 PNP transistor is used as the external
pass transistor, Q5 in the application diagram, then for a
maximum V
LOGIC
operating requirement of 500mA the data
sheet indicates Hfe_min = 100.
The base-emitter saturation voltage is: Vbe_max = 1.25V
(note this is normally a Vbe ~ 0.7V, however, for the Q5
transistor an internal Darlington arrangement is used to
increase it's current gain, giving a 'base-emitter' voltage of
2 x V
BE
).
(Note that using a high current Darlington PNP transistor for
Q5 requires that V
IN
> V
LOGIC
+ 2V. Should a lower input
voltage be required, then an ordinary high gain PNP
transistor should be selected for Q5 so as to allow a lower
collector-emitter saturation voltage).
For the EL7586 and EL7586A, the minimum drive current is:
I_DRVL_min = 8mA
The minimum base-emitter resistor, R
BL
, can now be
calculated as:
R
BL
_min = V
BE
_max/(I_DRVL_min - Ic/Hfe_min) =
1.25V/(8mA - 500mA/100) = 417
This is the minimum value that can be used - so, we now
choose a convenient value greater than this minimum value;
say 500
. Larger values may be used to reduce quiescent
current, however, regulation may be adversely affected, by
supply noise if R
BL
is made too high in value.
FIGURE 28. V
ON
FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM
EL7586
EL7586A
FB
LX
V
BOOST
V
IN
-
GMP
+
-
+
36V
ESD
CLAMP
LDO_ON
PG_LDOP
1 : Np
FBP
DRVP
7k
R
BP
V
BOOST
0.1μF
0.1μF
CP (TO 36V)
20k
R
P2
R
P1
C
ON
V
ON
(TO 35V)
LX
0.9V
Q3
EL7586, EL7586A