Layout Procedure
1) Place the power components first, with ground ter-
minals adjacent (NL source, C
IN
, C
OUT
, and DL
anode). If possible, make all these connections on
the top layer with wide, copper-filled areas.
2) Mount the controller IC adjacent to the low-side
MOSFET, preferably on the back side opposite NL
and NH to keep LX, GND, DH, and the DL gate-drive
lines short and wide. The DL and DH_ gate traces
must be short and wide (50 to 100 mils wide if the
MOSFET is 1in from the controller IC) to keep the dri-
ver impedance low and for proper adaptive dead-
time sensing.
3) Group the gate-drive components (BST diode and
capacitor, V
DD
bypass capacitor) together near the
controller IC.
4) Make the DC-DC controller ground connections as
shown in Figures 1 and 12. This diagram can be
viewed as having two separate ground planes:
power ground, where all the high-power compo-
nents go, and an analog ground plane for sensitive
analog components. The analog ground plane and
power ground plane must meet only at a single point
directly at the IC.
5) Connect the output power planes directly to the out-
put filter capacitor positive and negative terminals
with multiple vias. Place the entire DC-DC converter
circuit as close to the load as is practical.
Chip Information
TRANSISTOR COUNT: 7190
PROCESS: BiCMOS
MAX8720
Dynamically Adjustable 6-Bit VID
Step-Down Controller
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