SLLSFO6A May 2024 โ December 2025 TCAN2410-Q1 , TCAN2411-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA
The buck regulator incorporates both peak and valley inductor current limit to provide protection to the device from overloads and short circuits and limit the maximum output current. Valley current limit prevents inductor current runaway during short circuits on the output, while peak and valley limits work together to limit the maximum output current of the converter. Cycle-by-cycle current limit is used for overloads, while hiccup mode is used for sustained short circuits. High-side MOSFET overcurrent protection is implemented by the nature of the Peak Current Mode control. The high-side switch current is sensed when the high-side is turned on after a set blanking time. The high-side switch current is compared to the output of the Error Amplifier (EA) minus slope compensation every switching cycle. The peak current of high-side switch is limited by a clamped maximum peak current threshold Isc, which is constant. The current going through low-side MOSFET is also sensed and monitored. When the low-side switch turns on, the inductor current begins to ramp down. The low-side switch is not turned OFF at the end of a switching cycle if the low-side switch current is above the low-side current limit ILS_LIMIT. The low-side switch remains ON so that inductor current continues ramping down, until the inductor current ramps below the ILS_LIMIT. Then the low-side switch is turned OFF and the high-side switch is turned on after a dead time. After ILS_LIMIT is achieved, peak and valley current limit controls the maximum current delivered to the load, calculated as:
If the internal feedback voltage is lower than VCC133SC threshold (VCC133SC for 3.3V VCC1 and VCC15SC for 5V VCC1), short-circuit protection mode activates and the TCAN241x-Q1 enters fail-safe mode. In fail-safe mode, the buck regulator shuts down. Figure 8-36 describes how the TCAN241x-Q1 exits fail-safe mode after a short-circuit fault on VCC1.