SLVAG21 April 2026 TPS61381-Q1
For this design, a backup time duration of 75ms with a maximum backup power requirement of 28W is required. Here, use the 2S supercapacitors with total internal resistance to be around 45mΩ with VCH = 5.4V. Therefore, calculate the needed minimum capacitance as:
According to the previous calculation results, when a 0.68F super capacitor is selected. So the maximum energy that can be discharged is:
The energy consumption for load is:
The loss on TPS61381 is:
The total energy consumption is:
The energy margin is:
Here, select a supercapacitor of capacitance 5F with a VCH of 5.4V and an internal resistance of 45mΩ. While selecting a supercapacitor, it is critical to make sure that the internal resistance of the selected supercapacitor is as low as possible to minimize any power loss, to maximize the energy being transferred to the output.