CM6903/4
Low Pin Count PFC/PWM C
ONTROLLER
C
OMBO
PFC OUT (Pin 4) and PWM OUT (Pin3)
PFC OUT and PWM OUT are the high-current power driver
capable of directly driving the gate of a power MOSFET
with peak currents up to -1A and +0.5A. Both outputs are
actively held low when VCC is below the UVLO threshold
level which is 15V or VREFOK comparator is low.
GND (Pin 5)
GND is the return point for all circuits associated with this
part. Note: a high-quality, low impedance ground is critical
to the proper operation of the IC. High frequency grounding
techniques should be used.
ISENSE (Pin 6)
This pin ties to a resistor which senses the PFC input
current. This signal should be negative with respect to the
IC ground. It internally feeds the pulse-by-pulse current limit
comparator and the current sense feedback signal. The
ILIMIT trip level is –1V. The ISENSE feedback is internally
multiplied by a gain of four and compared against the
internal programmed ramp to set the PFC duty cycle. The
intersection of the boost inductor current downslope with
the internal programming ramp determines the boost
off-time.
It requires a RC filter between ISENSE and PFC boost
sensing resistor.
VEAO (Pin 7)
This is the PFC slew rate enhanced transconductance
amplifier output which needs to connected with a
compensation network.
VFB (Pin 8)
Besides this is the PFC slew rate enhanced
transconductance input, it also tie to a couple of protection
comparators, PFCOVP, and Tri-Fault Detect
IAC (pin 9)
Typically, it has a feedforward resistor, RAC, 100K~200K
ohm resistor connected between this pin and rectified line
input voltage.
This pin serves 2 purposes:
1.) During the startup condition, it supplies the startup
current; therefore, the system does not requires
additional bleed resistor to start up the chip.
2.) The current of RAC will program the automatic
slope compensation for the system. This
feedforward signal can increase the signal to noise
ratio for the light load condition or the high input
line voltage condition.
Power Factor Correction
Power factor correction makes a nonlinear load look like a
resistive load to the AC line. For a resistor, the current
drawn from the line is in phase with and proportional to the
line voltage, so the power factor is unity (one). A common
class of nonlinear load is the input of most power supplies,
which use a bridge rectifier and capacitive input filter fed
from the line. The peak-charging effect, which occurs on
the input filter capacitor in these supplies, causes brief
high-amplitude pulses of current to flow from the power line,
rather than a sinusoidal current in phase with the line
voltage. Such supplies present a power factor to the line of
less than one (i.e. they cause significant current harmonics of
the power line frequency to appear at their input). If the input
current drawn by such a supply (or any other nonlinear load)
can be made to follow the input voltage in instantaneous
amplitude, it will appear resistive to the AC line and a unity
power factor will be achieved.
To hold the input current draw of a device drawing power
from the AC line in phase with and proportional to the input
voltage, a way must be found to prevent that device from
loading the line except in proportion to the instantaneous line
voltage. The PFC section of the CM6903/4 uses a
boost-mode DC-DC converter to accomplish this. The input
to the converter is the full wave rectified AC line voltage. No
bulk filtering is applied following the bridge rectifier, so the
input voltage to the boost converter ranges (at twice line
frequency) from zero volts to the peak value of the AC input
and back to zero.
By forcing the boost converter to meet two simultaneous
conditions, it is possible to ensure that the current draws
from the power line matches the instantaneous line voltage.
One of these conditions is that the output voltage of the
boost converter must be set higher than the peak value of
the line voltage. A commonly used value is 385VFB, to allow
for a high line of 270VAC
rms
. The other condition is that the
current that the converter is allowed to draw from the line at
any given instant must be proportional to the line voltage.
PFC Control: Leading Edge Modulation with Input
Current Shaping Technique
(I.C.S.T.)
The only differences between the conventional PFC control
topology and I.C.S.T. is:
the current loop of the conventional control method is a close
loop method and it requires a detail understanding about the
system loop gain to design. With I.C.S.T., since the current
loop is an open loop, it is very straightforward to implement it.
The end result of the any PFC system, the power supply is
like a pure resistor at low frequency. Therefore, current is in
phase with voltage.
In the conventional control, it forces the input current to
follow the input voltage. In CM6903, the chip thinks if a boost
converter needs to behave like a low frequency resistor, what
the duty cycle should be.
The following equations is CM6903 try to achieve:
R
e
=
V
in
I
in
(1)
I
l
=
I
in
(2)
2002/12/16
Preliminary
Rev. 0.4
Champion Microelectronic Corporation
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