Usually bulk capacitors are placed on the output due to various reasons such as uninterrupted operation during power interruption or micro-short at the input, hold-up requirements for doing a memory dump before turning of the module and filtering requirements as well. This design considers minimum bulk capacitors requirements for meeting functional status "A" during LV124 E10 test case 2 100µs input interruption. To achieve functional pass status A, acceptable voltage droop in the output of LM74900-Q1 is based on the UVLO settings of downstream DC-DC converters. For this design, drop from 12V to 6.5V in output voltage for 100µs is considered (assuming downstream converter with 5V output) and the minimum hold-up capacitance required is calculated by

Equation 8.

Minimum hold-up capacitance required for 5.5V drop in 100µs is 100µF. Note that the typical application circuit shows the hold-up capacitor as optional because not all designs require hold-up capacitance.