With the provision to locate the controller as
close as possible to the power MOSFETs to minimize gate driver trace
runs, the components related to the analog and feedback signals as
well as current sensing are considered in the following:
- Separate
power and signal traces, and use a ground plane to
provide noise shielding.
- Place all
sensitive analog traces and components related to
COMP, FB, ISNS+, and RT away from high-voltage
switching nodes such as SW, HO, LO, or CBOOT to
avoid mutual coupling. Use internal layer or layers
as ground plane or planes. Pay particular attention
to shielding the feedback (FB) and current sense
(ISNS+ and VOUT) traces from power traces and
components.
- Locate
the upper and lower feedback resistors (if required)
close to the FB pin, keeping the FB trace as short
as possible. Route the trace from the upper feedback
resistor to the required output voltage sense point
at the load.
- Route the
ISNS+ and VOUT sense traces as differential pairs to
minimize noise pickup and use Kelvin connections to
the applicable shunt resistor (if shunt current
sensing is used) or to the sense capacitor (if
inductor DCR current sensing is used).
- Minimize
the loop area from the VCC and VIN pins through the
respective decoupling capacitors to the PGND pin.
Locate these capacitors as close as possible to the
LM25139-Q1.