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L9758

Functional description

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Functional description

5.1

General function

The L9758 is equipped with 9 linear voltage regulators. A buck boost switch mode power

supply as pre regulator for the 7 main regulators is used to reduce the power consumption in

the system.

Two standby regulators can be used to bias the system on off-mode. These two regulators

are equipped with an independent bandgap voltage reference. The current consumption of

these two linear regulators is specified to be less than 120 μA in OFF state. If these standby

functions are not used the current consumption on the battery can be reduced by not

connecting the VBAT. Under this condition the device enters immediately in the run mode,

the pin PSU_REN looses his function. The quiescent current on the VBAT_SW can be

reduced to maximum 10 μA with 12 V battery voltage in off mode. The main regulators can

be activated with the IGN input. With an external resistor higher than 10 kΩ in series to the

IGN pin a battery compliant signal can be used. In the functional block diagram (see

Figure 2) a resistor value of 51 kΩ is used together with a 100 nF capacitor for noise

robustness on IGN.

5.2

Switching pre-regulator

The switching pre-regulator is a buck or a buck-boost current control mode regulator. The

optional boost operation for low battery conditions can be selected connecting external logic

level low side NCH FET and an external diode in series to the inductor.

The external parts required to complete the switching regulator are an inductor, recirculation

diode and input and output filtering capacitor. The compensation network is inside the

device.

With a constant switching frequency of 350 kHz, the pre-regulator controls the output

voltage (the voltage at the VB and FDBK pins) to the limits stated in the electrical

characteristics table varying the duty cycle. The 350 kHz are related to REXT = 10 kΩ (see

Section 5.8).

At low battery voltages, in buck configuration, the pre-regulator runs with the duty cycle up

to 100%. In buck-boost configuration normally it runs at 350 kHz but for a limited range of

input voltage it could enter in pulse skipping mode to control the output voltage.

A soft start function is implemented reducing the current limitation during the power-up

phase.

5.3

VDD5, VDDL and VCORE linear regulators

The VDD5 output is a fully integrated low drop out regulator. The VDDL and VCORE supplies

will be implemented via an external N-channel pass MOS, with the control being internal to

the IC. If the pass MOS is not used, two low current (max 30 mA) regulators are available

connecting directly VDDL_FDBK to VDDL_DRV and VCORE_FDBK to VCORE_DRV with a

resistor divider.The output of the pre-regulator is used as the source of these supplies.

VDD5 is a fixed 5 V nominal output, while VDDL and VCORE are programmable.