Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: ON Semiconductor | Subject: NCP312x family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 07 March 2008
Buck regulators on track for sequencing
Dual-output PWM buck regulators integrate MOSFETs that deliver 2 or 3A output current for a variety of consumer applications.
Available now from ON Semiconductor, the NCP312x family of dual-output pulsewidth modulation (PWM) buck regulators feature novel auto-tracking and sequencing capabilities Featuring integrated MOSFETs that deliver 2A (NCP3120, NCP3122) or 3A (NCP3121, NCP3123) output current with switching frequency up to 2.2MHz, the new devices are ideal for a variety of consumer applications including set-top-boxes, LCD TVs and cable modems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 31 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"One of the biggest challenges facing power supply design engineers is the power-up and power-down timing requirements for multi-voltage systems", says Tim Kaske, ON Semiconductor Product Line Marketing Manager for the Power Regulation Product Group.
"ON Semiconductor offers a solution to help ease this design challenge with the new NCP312x family of switching regulators".
"These new regulators eliminate the need to use expensive voltage tracking controllers with a unique built-in auto tracking and sequencing capability".
The auto-tracking and sequencing features of the NCP312x devices enables exact timing and control over both output channels.
A DSP, FPGA or other signal processor requires multiple power supplies generating different voltage levels for core and I/O peripherals and specific timing of each voltage.
This timing control prevents latchup conditions that can cause immediate damage or even latent damage that produces failures in the field.
The NCP312x family of devices offers programmable ratiometric, sequential and tracking control to manage the output voltage behaviour during startup and power-down.
Additionally, multiple NCP312x devices can also be daisy chained together to control multiple outputs.
NCP312x convertors reduce input capacitance requirements by switching 180 degrees out-of-phase at a frequency of 200kHz up to 2.2MHz.
The out-of-phase operation allows the use of a single low-cost electrolytic capacitor or ceramic capacitor for the input filter versus two capacitors in a standard configuration.
The outputs can also be paralleled to provide a dual-phase single-output regulator with low ripple voltage.
The NCP3120, NCP3121, NCP3122, and NCP3123 are available in a QFN-32 package with budgetary price from US $1.30 to $1.55 per unit in 1000-unit quantities.
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