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Typical Application
4.5V~5.5V 2.7V~22V
VCC VIN
RPG CVCC RTON CVIN
GS9216
TON
CVOUT
SS AGND
CSS
PGND
1 7 21 23 20 8,9,22
Boot
Diode
Vref=0.6V
Soft Start High Side
Bandgap
MOS
EN/DSG 2 Enable/ DRV
Discharge VIN UVLO VCC UVLO
10,11
TON 16~18
LX
TON 6 Generator
Gate Control
Low Side
Logic
MOS
OVP DRV
0.9V
Error
AMP
Protection
Logic
0.3V
UVP
Error
AMP
OCP
0.6V RCC
Error AMP
PWM
CMP
5 4 3 19 12~15
Pin Configuration
PGOOD 1 17 LX
EN/DSG 2 16 LX
24 25
PFM 3 15 PGND
VIN LX
AGND 4 14 PGND
FB 5 13 PGND
TON 6 12 PGND
7 8 9 10 11
VIN VIN VIN LX LX
( Top view )
Figure 3 TQFN23-4x4 Package
Pin Descriptions
No. Name I/O Description
Power Good Signal Output. PGOOD is an open-drain output
1 PGOOD O
used to indicate the status of the output voltage.
Buck Enable and Discharge Control Pin. EN=Low, Shutdown;
2 EN/DSG I EN/DSG>1V Enable Device, EN/DSG<1.4V Enable Discharge
Function, EN/DSG>1.6V Disable Discharge Function.
PFM Selection Input. Connect PFM pin to GND for forced
3 PFM I
PWM operation. Connect PFM to VCC for PFM operation.
4 AGND I/O Analog Ground
Feedback Input. Adjust the output voltage with a resistive
5 FB I
voltage-divider between the regulator’s output and AGND.
On-Time Setting Input. Connect a resistor between VIN and
6 TON I
TON to set the on time width.
Supply Input. VIN is the regulator input. All VIN pins must be
7,8, 9, 22, 24 VIN I
connected together.
10, 11, 16, Upper Driver Floating Ground for Buck Controller. Connect to
LX I/O
17,18, 25 an external inductor.
Ordering Information
GS9216XX-X
1. Package 2. Shipping
No Item Contents
Electrical Characteristics
(RTON=350KOhm, VIN=12V, VCC=VEN=5V, TA =25°C, unless otherwise specified)
VPG_H 150 %
PGOOD Threshold
VPG_L 50 %
PGOOD Fault Delay TPG 10 us
Current Parameters
Quiescent Current IQ VFB =0.65V, VCC=5V 650 uA
VEN =0, I(VCC) 20 uA
Application Information
The GS9216 is small size chip with a relative High Side Switch On-Time Count
constant on-time synchronous buck switching The on-time is decided by the external setting
converter suitable for applications in notebook resistor, and the input voltage. Looking at the TON
computers and other battery operated portable pin, the input voltage is converted to current which
devices. Features include wide input voltage range, is inversely proportional to itself by dividing the
high efficiency and fast dynamic response. external setting resistor. The input
System Clock Generator and PWM Control voltage-proportional current is used to charge an
The on-time of GS9216 can be set by an external internal capacitor from zero volts. When the voltage
setting resistor from input voltage to TON Pin. The between two terminals of the capacitor reaches to
converter maintains the on-time width as loop the internal setting voltage, on-time one-shot pulse
feedback path exists between the GS9216 is generated, and then upper power MOSFET is
converter, low pass filter and voltage divider. For a turned off and lower power MOSFET is turned on.
given input voltage buck application, the feedback We can count the on-time and switching frequency
maintains the constant on-time width. Due to the according to the equations below:
constant resistor and input voltage, the GS9216 TON=(8.56p×RTONxVOUT) / (VIN-0.8)
based buck converter has the relative constant Then, the switching frequency is:
frequency. Moreover, the GS9216 can increase the Fsw=VOUT/ (VIN×TON)
duty-cycle automatically as input voltage falls down. RTON is a resistor connected from the input supply
Because of the constant on-time in each switching (VIN) to the TON pin.
period, the converter maintains the relative For heavy load application, due to ground bounced
frequency when the input voltage changes and the high impedance of RTON, the TON pin
At the beginning of each switching cycle, upper should always be bypassed to GND using a several
power MOSFET is turned on, after typical fixed nF-order ceramic capacitor for reliable system
on-time, the upper MOSFET is turned off, and then operation.
lower power MOSFET is turned on after internal EN, PFM/PWM Mode and Shutdown
dead time. The upper MOSFET will not be turned The EN pin enables the power supply. When EN is
on at the beginning of next cycle until output voltage pull up above 1V and the PFM Pin is pulled high,
falls down below the preset voltage and the dead the GS9216 converter is enabled and
time passes. The same events repeat the following diode-emulated mode (DEM, which is power save
switching cycles. To avoid the surge inductor mode) will be also enabled. When the PFM pin is
current during large load transient, a minimum pulled low, it will force the converter into PWM
Off-time is added. Typical minimum off-time is mode. The PFM pin offers an about 1uA current
around 420ns. The too small on-time can affect ability to default pull low.
soft-start and anti-noise ability, so in order to avoid In PFM(DEM) mode, when the loads goes low,
the on-time too small to be eliminated; a minimum GS9216 starts power save mode in order to
on-time is set to around 100ns. This should to be maintain the on-time and decrease the system
noted in the small duty applications. clock frequency to skip PWM pulses for better
efficiency. The PFM has two setting mode for Soft-Discharge scheme to make it safer and better
different ZCD detection voltage. The zero cross reliability.
detection range is VT_1 for small inductor application Since this is a soft discharge, that there are no
when the voltage in PFM pin is over 1.6V. The zero dangerous negative voltage excursions to be
cross detection range is VT_2 for larger inductor concerned about. In order to maintain the correct
application when the voltage in PFM pin is between function of the soft-discharge module, the chip
0.9V to 1.4V. power supply must be online.
If DEM Mode is enabled, the GS9216 zero The Soft-Discharge process is similar to the reverse
crossing comparator will sense the inductor current process of the Soft-Start.
and judge its value by comparing the LX node (LX) If the EN pin voltage greater than 1.6V, during the
to PGND. Once the LX node voltage is equal to the enable on, the discharge function will turn off, and
PGND node voltage, the converter will enter the the status is latched. After the EN pin pull low, the
DEM Mode and turn off the low side power IC will turn off and the high/low side MOS will turn
MOSFET. The boundary of PWM to PFM mode can off. The latch status can only reset by VCC power
be calculated by the output current. on.
VIN VOUT 1 VOUT After the EN pin pull low, the GS9216 internal logic
IOUT(Boundary)
2L FSW VIN will shutdown the switching clock and stop the buck
As the load current is further decreased, it takes converter and the high/low side MOSFETs turn off.
longer time to discharge the output capacitor to the The rest energy store in the output capacitor will
level than required the next switching cycle. The consume by the load and the resistors through the
on-time is kept the same as that in the heavy-load VOUT to FB path.
condition. Output Voltage Selection
Discharge Control & Soft-Discharge The output voltage is set by the feedback resistors
The GS9216 builds-in Vout discharge control RFB1 and RFB2 of Figure1. Therefore the RFB1 and
function. Discharge function allow user to choose RFB2 can be set by the equation below:
whether discharge the energy of output capacitors Set RFB2,then
through the EN pin voltage level. The control V
RFB1 RFB 2 OUT 1
voltage shows as below: 0.6
EN/DSG Function Current Limit
VEN<0.4V Enable off The GS9216 uses the on-state resistance of the
1V<VEN<1.4V Enable on and discharge on low-side power MOSFET as a current-sense
EN>1.6V Enable on and discharge off resistor. In this case, the RCS resistor between the
If discharge function enabled, the GS9216 will LX pin and CS pin sets the over current threshold.
execute the discharge output voltage after the EN This resistor RCS is connected to a 20uA current
pin pull low. source within the GS9216 which is turned on when
In order to avoid the large negative inductor current the low side power MOSFET turns on. When the
and the bounce of the Vout voltage during the voltage drop across the low side power MOSFET
discharge process, the GS9216 offers equals the voltage crossing the current limit resistor
RCS, positive current limit will activate. The high latched off and the GS9216 is latched off until
side Power MOSFET will not be turned on until both Power Reset or EN Reset. During soft-start, the
the voltage drop across the sense element (low side UVP will be blanked, until soft-start procedure
power MOSFET) falls below the voltage across the finished. The blank time depended on the value of
RCS resistor and the output voltage falls to pre-set the capacitor connected to SS Pin. But if the output
value. The current sensing circuit actually regulates voltage rises up above the UVP threshold tolerance
the inductor valley current. This means that if the during the counter period, the UVP counter is
magnitude of the current-sense signal at CS pin is released immediately.
above the current-limit threshold, the PWM is not UVLO and Soft-Start
allowed to initiate a new switching cycle. The An internal under voltage lockout (UVLO) module is
equation for the current limit threshold is as follows: used to sense the VCC power supply. The PWM
IL_LIMIT=20uA×RCS/RDSL converter is forbidden by the under voltage lockout
Where, RDSL is the resistance of low side power module. When VCC rises about 3.95V, the GS9216
MOSFET. will initial the control logic circuitries and soft-start
It is diagramed by the graph below: ramping generator, and then allows switching to
occur. When VCC falls down to about 3.79V, the
IL
PWM converter is forbidden again.
IL
Maximum After soft-start module starting, the fb will rise and
Average
IOUT
follow the soft-start ramp, so the output voltage will
Current
Limit rise smoothly. After UVP blanking time, the output
Threshold
under voltage protection and power good indicator
Below table is the RCS setting correspond to the is enabled. After FB voltage pass across 90% of
OCP function: reference and SS voltage reach about 1.2V, the
power good indicator will turn high by external pull
up resistor.
VIN UVLO
GS9216 builds-in the VIN voltage detection function
Output Over-Voltage Protection to offer better power on timing sequence
When the output voltage rises up to 150% of the compatibility. If VIN powers on after EN and VCC,
preset voltage, the internal fault-logic module The GS9216 will monitor VIN voltage and hold on
delays about 20us and turns on the low side Power the soft-start process until VIN rise above the VIN
MOSFET. It stays latched on and the GS9216 is UVLO threshold.
latched off until Power Reset or EN Reset. Power Good Indicator
Output Under-Voltage Protection PGOOD is actively held low in shut down and
When the output voltage falls down to 50% of the soft-start status. During the soft-start process, the
preset voltage, the internal fault-logic module will PGOOD is an open-drain status. After FB voltage
delay about 10us and turns off both the high side rise across 90% of reference and SS reach about
and low side Power MOSFETs. Both switches stay 1.2V, the PGOOD is pulled up by external resistor,
L2 E1
D1
D2
k
E
E3
D1
D3
E2
L3
L1
pin 1 dot 2 1 L
L1 e b
D
A
A3
A1
(Side view)
Dimensions in
Symbol Millimeters
Min. Max.
A 0.70 0.80
A1 0.00 0.05
A3 0.203 REF.
b 0.20 0.30
D 3.90 4.10
D1 0.65 0.85
D2 0.85 1.05
D3 1.24 1.44
E 3.90 4.10
E1 2.95 3.15
E2 2.60 2.70
E3 2.95 3.15
L 0.35 0.45
L1 0.57 0.67
L2 0.18 0.33
L3 0.22 0.32
e 0.50 REF.
k 0.33 0.37
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