Data Sheet
Au gust 29, 2012
QBDW033A0B Series Power Modules; DC-DC C onv erters
36-75Vdc Input; 8.1-13.2Vdc Output; 33 A Output Current
Digital Fea ture Descriptions
PMBus Interface Capability
The QBDW033A0B series is equipped with a digital
PMBus interface to allow the module to be configured,
and communicate with system controllers. Detailed
timing and electrical characteristics of the PMBus can
be found in the PMB Power Management Protocol
Specification, Part 1, r ev isi on 1.2, available at
http://pmbus.org. The QBDW033A0B supports both
the 100kHz and 400kHz bus timing requirements. The
QBDW033A0B shall stretch the clock, as long as it
does not exceed the maximum clock LO period of
35ms. The QBDW033A0B will check the Packet Error
Checking scheme (PEC) byte, if provided by the
PMBus master, and include a PEC byte in all
responses to the master. However, the
QBDW033A0B does not require a PEC byte from the
PMBus master.
The QBDW033A0B supports a subset of the
commands in the PMBus 1.2 specification. Most all of
the controller parameters can be programmed using
the PMBus and stored as defaults for later use. All
commands that require data input or output use the
linear for mat. The exponent of the data words is fixed
at a reasonable value for the command and altering
the exponent is not supported. Direct format data
input or output is not supported by the
QBDW033A0B. The supported commands are
described in greater detail below.
The QBDW033A0B also supports the SMBALERT
response protocol. The SMBALERT response
protocol is a mechani sm throu gh which the
QBDW033A0B can alert the PMBus master that it has
an active status or alarm condition via pulling the
SMBALERT pin to an active low. The master
processes this condition, and simultaneo usly
addresses all slaves on the PMBus through the Alert
Response Address. Only the slave(s) that caused the
alert (and that sup port the protocol) acknowledges
this request. The master perform s a modified receive
byte operation to get the slave’s address. At this
point, the master can use the PMBus status
commands to query the slave that caused the alert.
Note: The QBDW033A0B can only res pon d to a
single address at any given time. Therefore, the
factory defau lt state for the QB DW033A0B mod ule is
to retain it’s resistor programmed address, when it is
in an ALERT active condition, and not respond to the
ARA. This allows master systems, which do not
support ARA, to continue to communicate with the
slave QBDW033A0B using the programmed address,
and using the various READ_STATUS commands to
determine the cause for the SMBALERT. The
CLEAR_FAULTS command will retire the active
SMBALERT. However, when the QBDW033A0B
module is used in systems that do support ARA, Bit 4
of the MFR_CPIN_ARA_CONFIG command can be
used to reconfigure the module to utilize ARA. In this
case, the QBDW033A0B will no longer respond to its
programmed address, when in an ALERT active
state. The master is expected to perform the modified
received byte operation, and retire the ALERT active
signal. At this time, the QBDW033A0B will return to
it’s resistor programmed address, allowing normal
master-slave communications to proceed. The
QBDW033A0B does not contain capability to arbitrate
data bus contention caused by multiple modules
responding to the modified received byte operation.
Therefore, when the ARA is used in a multiple module
PMBus application, it is necessary to have the
QBDW033A0B module at the lowest programmed
address in order for the host to properly determine all
modules’ address that are associated with an active
SMBAlert. Please contact your Lineage Power sales
representative for further assistance, and for more
information on the SMBus alert response protocol,
see the System Management Bus (SMBus)
specification.
The QBDW033A0B contains non-volatile me mory that
is used to store configuration settings and scale
factors. The settings progr a m med into the dev ic e are
not automatically saved into this non-volatile memory
though. The STORE_DEFAULT_ALL command must
be used to commit the current settings to non-volatile
memory as device defaults. The settings that are
capable of being st or ed in non -volatile memory are
noted in their detaile d desc ript i ons.
PMBus Addressing
The power module can be addressed through the
PMBus using a device address. The module has 64
possible addresses (0 to 63 in decimal) which can be
se t usin g res isto rs connected from the ADDR0 and
ADDR1 pins to GND. Note that some of these
addresses (0 through 12, 40, 44, 45, and 55 in
decimal) are reserved according to the SMBus
specifications and may not be useable. The address
is set in the form of two octal (0 to 7) digits, with each
pin setting one digit. The ADDR1 pin sets the high
order digit and ADDR0 sets the low order digit. The
resistor values suggested for each digit are shown in
Table 4 (1% tolerance resistors are recommended).
Note that if either address resistor value is outside the
range specified in Table 4, the module will respond to
address 127. Table 4