IR3505MPBF International Rectifier, IR3505MPBF Datasheet - Page 10

• Manufacturer Part Number: IR3505MPBF
• Description: IC XPHASE3 CONTROL 16-MLPQ
• Manufacturer: International Rectifier
• Series: XPhase3™r

Specifications of IR3505MPBF

• Applications: Processor
• Current - Supply: 3mA
• Voltage - Supply: 8 V ~ 16 V
• Operating Temperature: 0°C ~ 125°C
• Mounting Type: Surface Mount
• Package / Case: 16-MLPQ
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant

The advantage of sensing the inductor current versus high side or low side sensing is that actual output current being
delivered to the load is obtained rather than peak or sampled information about the switch currents. The output voltage
can be positioned to meet a load line based on real time information. Except for a sense resistor in series with the
inductor, this is the only sense method that can support a single cycle transient response. Other methods provide no
information during either load increase (low side sensing) or load decrease (high side sensing).
An additional problem associated with peak or valley current mode control for voltage positioning is that they suffer from
peak-to-average errors. These errors will show in many ways but one example is the effect of frequency variation. If the
frequency of a particular unit is 10% low, the peak to peak inductor current will be 10% larger and the output impedance
of the converter will drop by about 10%. Variations in inductance, current sense amplifier bandwidth, PWM prop delay,
any added slope compensation, input voltage, and output voltage are all additional sources of peak-to-average errors.
Current Sense Amplifier
A high speed differential current sense amplifier is located in the phase IC, as shown in Figure 5. Its gain is nominally
32.5 and the 3850 ppm/ºC increase in inductor DCR should be compensated in the voltage loop feedback path.
The current sense amplifier can accept positive differential input up to 50mV and negative up to -10mV before clipping.
The output of the current sense amplifier is summed with the DAC voltage and sent to the control IC and other phases
through an on-chip 3K
the voltage on the share bus represents the average current through all the inductors and is used by the control IC for
voltage positioning and current limit protection. The input offset of this amplifier is calibrated to +/- 1mV in order to
reduce the current sense error.
The input offset voltage is the primary source of error for the current share loop. In order to achieve very small input
offset error and superior current sharing performance, the current sense amplifier continuously calibrates itself. This
calibration algorithm creates ripple on ISHARE bus with a frequency of f
Average Current Share Loop
Current sharing between phases of the converter is achieved by the average current share loop in each phase IC. The
output of the current sense amplifier is compared with the average current at the share bus. If current in a phase is
smaller than the average current, the share adjust amplifier of the phase will pull down the starting point of the PWM
ramp thereby increasing its duty cycle and output current; if current in a phase is larger than the average current, the
share adjust amplifier of the phase will pull up the starting point of the PWM ramp thereby decreasing its duty cycle and
output current. The current share amplifier is internally compensated so that the crossover frequency of the current
share loop is much slower than that of the voltage loop and the two loops do not interact.
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resistor connected to the ISHARE pin. The ISHARE pins of all the phases are tied together and
Figure 4 Inductor Current Sensing and Current Sense Amplifier
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