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Texas Instruments TPS40003 User Manual

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SLUU130A – September 2002 – Revised February 2003

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TPS40003-Based 5-A Converter in Less Than One Square Inch

Figure 9 shows the startup waveforms with an input voltage of 3.3 V and a load of 0.3

. Note that the output

is held low until V

SS

(pin 4) goes above 0.12 V, and then the output comes up smoothly under closed loop

softstart control.

STARTUP WAVEFORM

t – Time – 200

µ

s/div

1 V/div

500 mV/div

500 mV/div

Figure 9.

Figure 10 shows the transient response for a fast load step from 1 A to 2 A.

TRANSIENT RESPONSE

t – Time – 20

µ

s/div

50 mV/div

Figure 10.