SDAA170 September 2026 TPS61383-Q1
The capacitance in the back-up battery side affects BUB loop stability. TI recommends placing several MLCCs with the total effective capacitance around 20μF to30μF.
If the backup battery is connected to the IC through a long cable, TI recommend adding extra 100-200uF electrolytic capacitors on BUB side. This capacitor helps suppress LC ringing caused by parasite inductance on back up battery cable. Note that the electrolytic capacitor does not replace ceramic capacitor and the ceramic capacitor still needs to be placed near the IC.
Care needs to be taken when evaluating the effective capacitance of a ceramic capacitor. For ceramic capacitors, the derating under dc bias voltage, aging, and AC signal needs to be taken into consideration. Taking Murata GCM21BR71C475KA73K as an example, the effective capacitance reduces by 56% when 8V DC voltage is applied.