SGLS303F May 2005 – April 2016 TPS732-Q1
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The TPS732-Q1 belongs to a family of new generation LDO regulators that use an NMOS pass transistor to achieve ultra-low-dropout performance, reverse current blockage, and freedom from output capacitor constraints. These features, combined with low noise and an enable input, make the TPS732-Q1 family of devices ideal for portable applications. This regulator family offers a wide selection of fixed output voltage versions and an adjustable output version. All versions have thermal and overcurrent protection, including foldback current limit.
Figure 29 shows the basic circuit connections for the fixed voltage models. Figure 30 gives the connections for the adjustable output version (TPS73201-Q1).
R1 and R2 can be calculated for any output voltage using the formula shown in Figure 30. Sample resistor values for common output voltages are shown in Figure 31. For best accuracy, make the parallel combination of R1 and R2 approximately 19 kΩ.
VOUT | R1 | R2 |
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1.2 V | Short | Open |
1.5 V | 23.2 kW | 95.3 kW |
1.8 V | 28 kW | 56.2 kW |
2.5 V | 39.2 kW | 36.5 kW |
2.8 V | 44.2 kW | 33.2 kW |
3 V | 46.4 kW | 30.9 kW |
3.3 V | 52.3 kW | 30.1 kW |
5 V | 78.7 kW | 24.9 kW |
Although an input capacitor is not required for stability, it is good analog design practice to connect a 0.1-μF to 1‑μF low ESR capacitor across the input supply near the regulator. This counteracts reactive input sources and improves transient response, noise rejection, and ripple rejection. A higher-value capacitor may be necessary if large, fast rise-time load transients are anticipated or the device is located several inches from the power source.
The TPS732-Q1 family of devices does not require an output capacitor for stability and has maximum phase margin with no capacitor. It is designed to be stable for all available types and values of capacitors. In applications where VIN – VOUT < 0.5 V and multiple low ESR capacitors are in parallel, ringing may occur when the product of COUT and total ESR drops below 50 nF. Total ESR includes all parasitic resistances, including capacitor ESR and board, socket, and solder joint resistance. In most applications, the sum of capacitor ESR and trace resistance will meet this requirement.
A precision band-gap reference is used to generate the internal reference voltage, VREF. This reference is the dominant noise source within the TPS732-Q1 family of devices and it generates approximately 32 μVRMS (10 Hz to 100 kHz) at the reference output (NR). The regulator control loop gains up the reference noise with the same gain as the reference voltage, so that the noise voltage of the regulator is approximately given by:
Because the value of VREF is 1.2 V, this relationship reduces to:
where
An internal 27-kΩ resistor in series with the noise reduction pin (NR) forms a low-pass filter for the voltage reference when an external noise reduction capacitor, CNR, is connected from NR to ground. For CNR = 10 nF, the total noise in the 10-Hz to 100-kHz bandwidth is reduced by a factor of approximately 3.2, giving the approximate relationship:
where
This noise reduction effect is shown as RMS Noise Voltage vs CNR in Typical Characteristics.
The TPS73201-Q1 adjustable version does not have the noise-reduction pin available. However, connecting a feedback capacitor, CFB, from the output to the FB pin will reduce output noise and improve load transient performance.
The TPS732-Q1 family of devices uses an internal charge pump to develop an internal supply voltage sufficient to drive the gate of the NMOS pass element above VOUT. The charge pump generates approximately 250 μV of switching noise at approximately 2 MHz; however, charge-pump noise contribution is negligible at the output of the regulator for most values of IOUT and COUT.