I am sure you'll find your way with the problem calling for the diode without any help. I am going to insert a rant-ish comment about the "long story".
Every time I have used some readily available convertor part, LTC, Maxim many ears earlier, there were long stories. Which is why to this day I make my own regulators, 1/2 74hc123 and 1/2 lmc6482, typically. Plus a mosfet and its driver of course. Somewhat more complex and the story may be long again on some occasions but the ending is happy and calls for a lot less compromise. Having control over the loop overall etc. gives you that.
I just need to drop about a volt. A diode would do that just fine. Better yet 2 diodes in series so I can tune the drop.
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Reg3 has an abs max input of 6 volts. I want at least 6.5 for my linear regs. I can't use 3.3 as the input to reg3 because +1 FPGA core has to come up before 3.3.
I was just making an excuse for the rant I was about to post, of course I did not mean your post was inappropriate, quite the contrary.
They take more part obviously but they don't take a much larger area on the board. I am sure lots of integrated switchers work fine, and the few (not more than 5-6) I remember using did work but had either stability issues or noise or whatever, I don't remember, I only remember there were issues beyond my control as they were integrated. I may have been too demanding, of course.
Breadboard does not help much with switchers where routing is essential. But I have found out that even for my "home made" switchers ltspice is reasonably accurate evaluating stability over load and input variations, as well as step response etc.
I really like TPS54302. It's a tiny SOT23 switcher, spread-spectrum, well behaved. But I can't get the TI Pspice model to work in LT Spice and I haven't the energy to learn Tina. I'll breadboard it.
On a sunny day (Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:04:03 -0700) it happened John Larkin snipped-for-privacy@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Old color sets had a 4 kV rectfer for focus, consisted of a ceramic tube with a zillion ? diodes in series
Webench requires a login (why make people log in to sell stuff?) and doesn't work on my machines.
I suspect that LT Spice added a couple billion dollars to ADI's purchase price of LT. And it crushed the sales of several expensive simulators. Mike E says that LT Spice is used 1000 times more than all other circuut sim programs.
There are advantages to breadboarding tricky stuff like switchers, even if the sims work. EMI. Thermals. Caps. Inductors. Reality.
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Actually, I have a LOT of test data on TPS54302, just none for the inverter case.
Someone used to sell a pseudorandom noise generator chip. This is one!
On a sunny day (Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:34:49 -0700) it happened John Larkin snipped-for-privacy@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
You could make something with a transistor Vbe and diode in series: | ___ \ / --- | _________ | | | | [ ] X |c | |/ |------| NPN | |\/e [ ] 1k | | | --------- |
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