LTC6992 TimerBlox, jitter at low duty cycles

Jan 29, 2015 6 Replies

Folks,



Got an LTC6992 in the -3 version which goes from 0% to 95% duty cycle, controlling a fairly massive PWM stage. It lives inside a (stable) PID loop and works ok except at very low duty cycles under 2%. There is breaks into a jitter and because I am driving big capacitive loads that results in tons of wasted power. Also, it quite abruptly turns off at a fraction of a percent instead of gracefully going towards 0%.



I've babied the device quite well and all the signals look clean, including on the very sensitive SET pin. In case stuff gets into the die I have tried shielding the whole stage and even that changed nothing.



Anyone had that happen and knows a fix?


Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Usually noise in the Vcc supply, or inherient in the device operation. Does it do it on a seperate proto board?

I had a IRF 1/2 cycle PFC part that was noisy, tuff to decouple. A compatible TI part was well behaved.

Cheers

Den fredag den 30. januar 2015 kl. 00.52.08 UTC+1 skrev Joerg:

some RC+diode concoction to "subtract" some duty cycle? so it'll do 0-90% cleanly?

-Lasse

It did. Tried battery operation as well. VCC is very clean.

I don't think anyone make a compatible part to the LTC6992.

Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/

92% would suffice. I thought about that but tossed the idea because it would be a major hack and re-layout. Then I might as well build my own PWM modulator.
Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/

That's on the data sheet, bottom of p 9. Some, not all, parts crash to

0% duty cycle at about 0.1 volt in.

The specs on that part are awful. Don't know how they managed to make it that bad.

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Yes, but it doesn't say that it exhibits a tarantella dance around that point.

I really like LTC as a supplier but that part sure has me non-plussed. On the production run it's going to go bye-bye.

Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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