MAX1717
Dynamically Adjustable, Synchronous
Step-Down Controller for Notebook CPUs
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For a battery range of 7V to 24V, this threshold is rela-
tively constant, with only a minor dependence on bat-
tery voltage:
where K is the on-time scale factor (Table 3). The load-
current level at which PFM/PWM crossover occurs,
I
LOAD(SKIP)
, is equal to 1/2 the peak-to-peak ripple cur-
rent, which is a function of the inductor value (Figure 4).
For example, in the standard application circuit this
becomes:
The crossover point occurs at an even lower value if a
swinging (soft-saturation) inductor is used.
The switching waveforms may appear noisy and asyn-
chronous when light loading causes pulse-skipping
operation, but this is a normal operating condition that
results in high light-load efficiency. Trade-offs in PFM
noise vs. light-load efficiency are made by varying the
inductor value. Generally, low inductor values produce
a broader efficiency vs. load curve, while higher values
result in higher full-load efficiency (assuming that the
coil resistance remains fixed) and less output voltage
ripple. Penalties for using higher inductor values
include larger physical size and degraded load-tran-
sient response (especially at low input voltage levels).
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SEE TABLE 1 VALUES.
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