
AN10881
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Application note
Rev. 2 — 26 September 2011
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NXP Semiconductors
AN10881
TEA1713 resonant power supply control IC with PFC
7.4.1 PFC soft-start and soft-stop
The PFC has a soft-start function and a soft-stop function to prevent transformer
noise/rattle at start-up or during Burst mode operation. The soft-start slowly increases the
primary peak current at the start of operation. The soft-stop function slowly decreases the
transformer peak current before operation is stopped.
A resistor and a capacitor between SNSCURPFC and the current sense resistor
R
SENSE(PFC)
set both functions.
7.4.1.1
Soft-start
Before start of operation, an internal current source of 60
A charges the capacitor to
V
SNSCURPFC
= 60
A
R
SS
. When SNSCURPFC exceeds the internal start voltage of
0.5 V, the operation can start. Select a resistor R
SS
12 k
to ensure that the start
voltage level is reached. At start-up, the current source is stopped and the voltage on
SNSCURPFC drops as R
SS
discharges C
SS
. During this discharge the peak current of
each cycle increases until C
SS
is discharged completely and the normal peak current
regulation level (OCR/OCP), set by R
SENSE(PFC)
, is reached.
The soft-start period can be claclulated with
:
(14)
7.4.1.2
Soft-stop
Soft-stop is achieved by switching on the internal current source of 60
A again.
The current charges C
SS
and the increasing capacitor voltage reduces the peak current.
When SNSCURPFC reaches 0.5 V the operation is stopped.
The voltage is only measured during the off-time of the PFC power switch to prevent
measurement disturbances during soft-stop.
7.4.2 SNSCURPFC open and short protection
When the SNSCURPFC pin is open, SNSCURPFC is charged to 0.5 V by the internal
current source of 60
A for soft-start. The PFC does not start switching because of OCP.
When the SNSCURPFC pin is short circuit to ground, the PFC cannot start operation as
the start level of 0.5 V has not been reached.
Fig 20. PFC soft-start and soft-stop setup
001aal030
60
μ
Atyp
RSENSE(PFC)
RSS
≥
12 k
Ω
CSS
COMP
SNSCURPFC
0.5 V
CONTROL
4
TEA1713
R
SS
C
SS
=