Use wide traces for signals that carry high
current and avoid VIAs wherever possible. If VIAs can't be avoided, multiple VIAs should
be added to enable low parasitic inductance and high current capability. These include
traces for PVDD, VBAT, VDD, PGND, BGND,
GND, OUT_P and OUT_N.
PGND and BGND
signal should be directly connected and shorted to the ground plane of board to
minimize parasitic inductance. Common inductance between ground pins (eg GND and PGND
or GND and BGND common
routing) before connecting to ground plane should be avoided.
The coupling between high switching signal traces
like OUT_P, OUT_N, SW, should be avoided from sensitive low voltage signals.
Minimize capacitance between high switching lines
like OUT_P, OUT_N, SW, to ground/static nodes. Larger capacitance will result in efficiency drop.
Coupling between OUT_P and OUT_N will also cause degraded efficiency.
VBAT routing to the boost inductor
and the device VBAT pin should be star connected to the common VBAT supply plane. Ensure
the decoupling capacitor C4 is placed close to the device and decoupling capacitor C5 is
placed close to the inductor.
Place the boost inductor between
VBAT and SW close to the device terminal with no VIAs between device terminal and the
inductor. VBAT routing to the boost inductor should be routed with minimal routing
resistance to achieve best performance from device.
Decoupling capacitors should be placed close to
the device. Smallest possible package size is recommended for the decaps to achieve best
performance from device. DREG, VDD, IOVDD, VBAT (C4 cap), PVDD low ESL (C6
cap) are recommended to be 0201 case size or lower. VIAs between decapacitors and device
pins should be avoided, or multiple VIAs added to minimize parasitic inductances.
All decoupling capacitor's
ground terminal should be strongly connected to the ground plane with
multiple ground VIAs. The ground routing loop between the cap ground and the
device ground pins should be minimized.
For VDD Y-bridge functionality, the routing from the host PMIC to the device
VDD should be wide supply plane trace with minimal routing parasitic
inductance.
For the capacitor between
GREG-PVDD (C9 cap), PVDD side of capacitor should not be connected directly
to the PVDD decoupling capacitors (C6, C7 and C8), and should be connected
as close as possible to the device PVDD pin.
In external PVDD mode of operation,
SW pin should be left floating and not connected to any supply or ground signals.