Highly-Integrated Digital Controller for Isolated Power
Product details
Parameters
Package | Pins | Size
Features
- 64 kB and 128 kB Program Flash Derivative of UCD3138 Family
- 2-32 kB or 4-32 kB Program Flash Memory Banks
- Supports Execution From 1 Bank, While Programming Another
- Capability to Update Firmware Without Shutting Down the Power Supply
- Additional Communication Ports Compared to the UCD3138 (+1 SPI, +1 I2C)
- Boot Flash Based Dual Memory Image Support for ‘On the Fly’ Firmware Updates
- Digital Control of up to 3 Independent Feedback Loops
- Dedicated PID Based Hardware
- 2-pole/2-zero Configurable, Non-Linear Control
- Up to 16 MSPS Error A/D Converter (EADC)
- Configurable Resolution (min: 1mV/LSB)
- Up to 8x Oversampling and Adaptive Sample Positioning
- Hardware Based Averaging (up to 8x)
- 14 bit Effective Reference DAC
- Up to 8 High Resolution Digital Pulse Width Modulated (DPWM) Outputs
- 250 ps Pulse Width Resolution
- 4 ns Frequency and Phase Resolution
- Adjustable Phase Shift and Dead-bands
- Cycle-by-Cycle Duty Cycle Matching
- Up to 2 MHz Switching Frequency
- Configurable Trailing/Leading/Triangular Modulation
- RTC support
- Configurable Feedback Control
- Voltage, Average Current and Peak Current Mode Control
- Constant Current, Constant Power
- Configurable FM, Phase Shift Modulation and PWM
- Fast, Automatic and Smooth Mode Switching
- Frequency Modulation and PWM
- Phase Shift Modulation and PWM
- High Efficiency and Light Load Management
- Burst Mode & Ideal Diode Emulation
- Synchronous Rectifier Soft On/Off
- Low IC Standby Power
- Primary Side Voltage Sensing
- Current Share (Average & Master/Slave)
- Feature Rich Fault Protection Options
- 7 Analog / 4 Digital Comparators,
- Cycle-by-Cycle Current Limiting
- Programmable Blanking Time and Fault Counting
- External Fault Inputs
- Synchronization of DPWM Waveforms Between Multiple UCD3138x Devices
- 15 channel, 12 bit, 267 ksps General Purpose ADC
- Internal Temperature Sensor
- Fully Programmable High-Performance 31.25 MHz, 32-bit ARM7TDMI-S Processor
- 64 kB Program Flash (2-32 kB Banks)
- 2 kB Data Flash with ECC
- 8 kB Data RAM
- 4 kB Boot ROM Enables Firmware Boot-Load
- Communication Peripherals,
- 2 - I2C/PMBus interfaces
- 2 - UARTs, 1 - SPI
- Timer Capture with Selectable Input Pins
- 80-pin QFP Package
- Operating Temperature: –40°C to 125°C
Description
The UCD3138 family is a digital power supply controller from Texas Instruments offering superior levels of integration and performance in a single chip solution. The UCD3138x, in comparison to Texas Instruments UCD3138x digital power controller offers 64 kB of program Flash memory in UCD3138A64 (128 KB in UCD3138128) and additional options for communication such as SPI and a second I2C port. The availability of program Flash memory in multiple 32 kB banks enables designers to implement dual images of firmware (e.g. one main image + one back-up image) in the device and provides the option to execute from either of the banks using appropriate algorithms. It also creates the unique opportunity for the processor to load a new program and subsequently execute that program without interrupting power delivery. This feature allows the end user to add new features to the power supply in the field while eliminating any down-time required to load the new program.
The flexible nature of the UCD3138 family makes it suitable for a wide variety of power conversion applications. In addition, multiple peripherals inside the device have been specifically optimized to enhance the performance of AC/DC and isolated DC/DC applications and reduce the solution component count in the IT and network infrastructure space. The UCD3138 family is a fully programmable solution offering customers complete control of their application, along with ample ability to differentiate their solution. At the same time, TI is committed to simplifying our customer’s development effort through offering best in class development tools, including application firmware, Code Composer StudioTM software development environment, and TI’s Fusion Power Development GUI which enables customers to configure and monitor key system parameters.
At the core of the controller are the Digital Power Peripherals (DPP). Each DPP implements a high speed digital control loop consisting of a dedicated Error Analog to Digital Converter (EADC), a PID based 2 pole - 2 zero digital compensator and DPWM outputs with 250ps pulse width resolution. The device also contains a 12-bit, 267 ksps general purpose ADC with up to 15 channels, timers, interrupt control, PMBus, I2C, SPI and UART communications ports. The device is based on a 32-bit ARM7TDMI-S RISC microcontroller that performs real-time monitoring, configures peripherals and manages communications. The ARM microcontroller executes its program out of programmable flash memory as well as on chip RAM and ROM.
In addition to the DPP, specific power management peripherals have been added to enable high efficiency across the entire operating range, high integration for increased power density, reliability, and lowest overall system cost and high flexibility with support for the widest number of control schemes and topologies. Such peripherals include: light load burst mode, synchronous rectification, LLC and phase shifted full bridge mode switching, input voltage feed forward, copper trace current sense, ideal diode emulation, constant current constant power control, synchronous rectification soft on and off, peak current mode control, flux balancing, secondary side input voltage sensing, high resolution current sharing, hardware configurable soft start with pre bias, as well as several other features. Topology support has been optimized for voltage mode and peak current mode controlled phase shifted full bridge, single and dual phase PFC, bridgeless PFC, hard switched full bridge and half bridge, active clamp forward converter, two switch forward converter and LLC half bridge and full bridge.
Technical documentation
Design & development
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Description
The UCD3138A64OEVM-662 EVM offers an easy to use test platform for stand-alone evaluation of UCD3138A64 digital controller optimized for isolated power applications. Featuring an 80-pin socket and a comprehensive set of test points, the EVM allows hardware and firmware engineers to manipulate (...)
Features
- Test points for easy access to all pins of UCD3138A64 80-pin digital controller
- Socket for easy removal/replacement of the device
- All GPIO and ADC12 pins accessible (with on-board RC filters on each pin)
- Capability to adapt EVM for various evaluation targets using jumpers
- Hardware terminals: PMBus (...)
Description
Features
- Digitally controlled and standalone hard switching full-bridge DC-DC power conversion
- Voltage mode control
- Secondary side control
- DC input from 36 to 72Vdc
- 12Vdc regulated output from no-load to full-load
- Full-load power 360W, or full-load current 30A
- High efficiency
- Constant soft start time
- Protection (...)
Description
The Texas Instruments UCD3138PFCEVM-026 evaluation module (EVM) is a digitally controlled single phase PFC pre-regulator based on the UCD3138 programmable digital power controller. The EVM accepts universal ac line input from 90Vac to 264Vac, 47Hz to 63Hz. The nominal output voltage is 390VDC (...)
Features
- Universal AC Line Input from 90 VAC to 264 VAC with AC Line Frequency 47 Hz to 63 Hz
- Regulated Output 390 VDC with Output from No-Load to Full-Load
- Full-Load Power 360 W, or full-Load Current 0.92 A
- High Power Factor and extremely Low THD even at light load (below 5% in most operation conditions)
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Description
Features
- Digitally controlled phase-shifted full-bridge DC-DC power conversion
- DC line input from 350 to 400Vdc
- Regulated output 12Vdc with output from no-load to full-load
- Full-load power 360W, or full-load current 30A
- High efficiency
- Constant soft start time
- Protection: over voltage, over current, and brownout
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Description
The Texas Instruments UCD3138A64CEVM-660 evaluation module (EVM) functions as a control card for UCD3138A64 digital controller for isolated power applications from Texas Instruments. The EVM can be used either as a stand-alone board to study the UCD3138A64 device or as a control card for (...)
Features
- UCD3138A64PFC digital controller PMBus Connector to interface with USB-to-GPIO Adapter, for communication with host PC
- Includes On-board SPI and I2C accessible EEPROMs for additional memory storage
- 40-pin Digital Signal Connector to Connect Digital Signals to Power Converters
- 40-pin Analog Signal (...)
Description
The production GUI (...)
Features
- Download firmware in "ROM" mode
- Upgrade firmware in "Program" mode
- Program a device configuration
- Write serial numbers
- The tool supports multiple devices on a board, and includes built-in logging and reporting
- Test the device (validate power conversion falls (...)
Software development
Features
Some of the tasks you can perform with the GUI include:
- Turn on or off the power supply output, either through the hardware control line or the PMBus OPERATION command
- Monitor real-time data. Items such as input voltage, output voltage, output current, temperature, and warnings/faults are continuously (...)
The MFR GUI supports the same devices as Fusion Digital Power Designer software. This tool is typically used in manufacturing (...)
Features
Some of the tasks the tool can perform include:
- Download/Upgrade firmware
- Program a device configuration
- Calibrate a device (manually or instrumented via GPIB):
- Input voltage (Vin)
- Output voltage (Vout)
- Output current (Iout)
- Temperature
- Test the device (validate power conversion falls within acceptable Vout (...)
Features
- Quick start learning tool
- Offers advanced power peripherals operating autonomous from the processor
Features
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Features
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Features
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Features
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Features
- API is the form of a number of Microsoft .NET assemblies with Framework 4.5
- Support Window 32 bits and 64 bits operating system
- Provide I2C/SMBus communication with SMBus devices through TI USB-To-GPIO adapter
- Provide high level interfaces to common tasks such as read/write data, firmware download (...)
Features
This firmware comes with native support for following features:
- Transition mode supported as wells as Hard-switching.
- ZVS Control at Low Line for light load efficiency
- Phase sync and DPWM engine enables hardware based control.
- Interleaved up to 4 phases in single chip
- Phase shedding and adding for light (...)
The resonant LLC topology (...)
Features
This firmware comes with native support for following features:
- Dynamic mode switching between frequency to phase
- Cycle by cycle current limit with duty cycle matching
- Short-circuit constant current operation
- Overcurrent/overload protection
- Current sharing
- Accurate and adaptable primary-to-secondary (...)
Features
This firmware comes with native support for following features:
- Excellent voltage regulation and line regulation
- Input voltage feedforward
- Output voltage soft start with pre-bias
- Load current sharing
- Copper trace current sensing with temperature compensation
- Oversampling Function for Enhanced Transient (...)
Features
This firmware comes with native support for following features:
- Innovative ZVS/Valley Switching Algorithm to boost light load efficiency and reduce THD
- Integrated cycle by cycle protection provides protection for over voltage, over current, brownout, power-on inrush current
- Easily re-configurable to (...)
Features
This firmware comes with native support for following features:
- Peak current mode control w/ internal slope compensation & programming blanking time
- Excellent voltage regulation and line regulation
- Non-linear control for enhanced transient response oversampling function for enhanced transient response
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Features
This firmware comes with native support for following features:
- Dynamic mode switching between frequencies to pulse width modulation
- Cycle by cycle current limit with duty cycle matching
- Short-circuit constant current operation
- Overcurrent/overload protection
- Current sharing
- Optimized dead time using (...)
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Features
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Reference designs
Design files
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download TIDA-00653 CAD Files.zip (25007KB)
Design files
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download TIDA-00412 PCB.pdf (1826KB)
Design files
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download TIDA-00381 BOM.pdf (52KB) -
download TIDA-00381 Gerber.zip (540KB)
Design files
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download PMP4320A BOM.pdf (50KB) -
download PMP4320A Gerber.zip (2725KB)
Design files
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download PMP8877 BOM.pdf (199KB) -
download PMP8877 PCB.pdf (413KB) -
download PMP8877 Gerber.zip (407KB)
CAD/CAE symbols
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