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Supply Filter/Bypa ss Ca pa citor
A 1uF low-ESR ceramic capacitor from VIN to GND, located
at the device is strongly recommended to prevent the input
voltage drooping during hot-plug events. However, higher
capacitor values will further reduce the voltage droop on
the input. Furthermore, without the bypass capacitor, an
output short may cause sufficient ringing on the input (from
source lead inductance) to destroy the internal control
circuitry. The input transient must not exceed 6V of the
absolute maximum supply voltage even for a short duration.
Output Filter Capacitor
A low-ESR 150uF aluminum electrolytic or tantalum
between VOUT and GND is strongly recommended to meet
the 330mV maximum droop requirement in the hub VBUS
(Per USB 2.0, output ports must have a minimum 120μF
of low-ESR bulk capacitance per hub). Standard bypass
methods should be used to minimize inductance and
Self-Powered Hub power for the internal functions and
downstream ports does not come from the USB, although
the USB interface may draw up to 100mA from its
upstream connection, to allow the interface to function
when the remainder of the hub is powered down. The hub
must be able to supply up to 500mA on all of its external
downstream ports. Please refer to Universal Serial
Specification Revision 2.0 for more details on designing
compliant USB hub and host systems.
Over current protection devices such as fuses and PTC
resistors (also called polyfuse or polyswitch) have slow
trip times, high on-resistance, and lack the necessary
circuitry for USB-required fault reporting.
The faster trip time of the RT9724 power distribution allows
designers to design hubs that can operate through faults.
The RT9724 provides low on-resistance and internal fault-
reporting circuitry to meet voltage regulation and fault
notification requirements.
Because the devices are also power switches, the designer
of self-powered hubs has the flexibility to turn off power to
output ports. Unlike a normal MOSFET, the devices have
controlled rise and fall times to provide the needed inrush
current limiting required for the bus-powered hub power
switch.
resistance between the bypass capacitor and the
downstream connector to reduce EMI and decouple voltage
droop caused when downstream cables are hot-insertion
transients. Ferrite beads in series with VBUS, the ground
line and the 0.1μF bypass capacitors at the power
connector pins are recommended for EMI and ESD
protection. The bypass capacitor itself should have a low
dissipation factor to allow decoupling at higher frequencies.
Voltage Drop
The USB specification states a minimum port-output
voltage in two locations on the bus, 4.75V out of a Self-
Powered Hub port and 4.4V out of a Bus-Powered Hub
port. As with the Self-Powered Hub, all resistive voltage
drops for the Bus-Powered Hub must be accounted for to
guarantee voltage regulation (see Figure 7-47 of Universal
Serial Specification Revision 2.0 ).
The following calculation determines VOUT (MIN) for multi-
ple ports (NPORTS) ganged together through one switch (if
using one switch per port, NPORTS is equal to 1) :
VOUT (MIN) = 4.75V − [ II x ( 4 x RCONN + 2 x RCABLE ) ] −
(0.1A x NPORTS x RSWITCH ) − VPCB
Where
RCONN = Resistance of connector contacts
(two contacts per connector)
RCABLE = Resistance of upstream cable wires
(one 5V and one GND)
RSWITCH = Resistance of power switch
(90mΩ typical for RT9715)
VPCB = PCB voltage drop
The USB specification defines the maximum resistance
per contact (RCONN) of the USB connector to be 30mΩ
and the drop across the PCB and switch to be 100mV.
This basically leaves two variables in the equation: the
resistance of the switch and the resistance of the cable.
If the hub consumes the maximum current (II) of 500mA,
the maximum resistance of the cable is 90mΩ.