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POWER MANAGEMENT
SC1114
PRELIMINARY
to cross the oscillator triangular ramp of 1V to 2V.
As the SS/EN pin continues to rise, the error amplifier out-
put also rises at the same rate and the duty cycle increases.
Once the Vout has reached regulation, the error amplifier
output will no longer be clamped to the SS/EN voltage and
will stay between 1V to 2V. The SS/EN voltage continues
to rise up to 2.5V and will stay at that voltage level during
normal operation.
If an over current condition occurs, the SS/EN pin will dis-
charge by a 2uA current source, from 2.5V to 800mV. Dur-
ing this time both DH, and DL will be turned off. Once the
SS/EN reaches 800mV, the low side gate will be turned
on, and the SS/EN pin will again start to be charged by the
10uA current source, and the same soft start sequence
mentioned above will be repeated.
OVER CURRENT
Upper Mosfets Rdson is used to monitor the drop across
the top FET due to an over current condition. This Method
of current sensing minimizes any unnecessary losses due
to external sense resistance.
An internal comparator with a 200mV reference monitors
the Drop across the upper FET, Once the Vdson of the
Mosfet exceeds the 200mV limit, the low side gate is turned
on and the upper FET is turned off. Also an internal latch
is set and the Soft start capacitor is discharged. Once the
lower threshold of the soft start circuit is crossed, the same
Softstart sequence mentioned previously is repeated. This
sequence is repeated until the over condition is removed.
THEORY OF OPERATION
The SC1114 has integrated a synchronous buck control-
ler and two Low drop out regulator controllers into a 16
Pin SOIC package. The switching regulator provides a 1.2V
Vout voltage for use in Pentium® III Motherboards., while
the dual LDO regulators provide 1.2V, and 1.5V to power
up the Chipset and the Clock circuitry.
SUPPLIES
Two supplies, VSTBY, and VCC are used to power the
SC1114. VSTBY supply provides the bias for the Internal
Reference, Oscillator, and the LDO FET controllers. The VCC
supply provides the bias for the Power Good circuitry, and
the high side FET Rdson sensing/over current circuitry,
VCC also is used to drive the low side Mosfet gate. An ex-
ternal 12V supply or a classical boot strapping technique
can provide the gate drive for the upper Mosfet.
PWM CONTROLLER
SC1114 is a voltage mode buck controller that utilizes an
internally compensated high bandwidth error amplifier to
sense the Vout output voltage. External compensation com-
ponents are not needed and a stable closed loop responce
is insured due to the internal compensation.
START UP SEQUENCE
Initially during the power up, the SC1114 is in under volt-
age lock out condition. The latch (SET dominant) in the
hiccup section is set , and the SS/EN pin is pulled low by
the 2uA soft start current source.
Mean while the high side and low side gate drivers DH,
and DL are kept low. Once the VCC exceeds the UVLO
threshold of 4.2V, the latch is reset and the external soft
start capacitor starts to be charged by a 10uA current
source.
The gate drives are still kept off until the soft start capaci-
tors voltage rises above 600mV, when the low side gate is
turned on , and the high side gate is kept off.
The gate drive status stays the same until the capacitors
voltage reaches 1V, when the error amplifier output starts
Application Information
VCC
SS/EN
Phase Node