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FAN7621S • Rev. 1.0.1 10
FAN7621S — PFM Controller for Half-Bridge Resonant Converters
The soft-start time is three to four times the RC time
constant. The RC time constant is as follows:
SSSSSS CRt •= (4)
Figure 19. Frequency Sweeping of Soft-Start
4. Self Auto-restart: The FAN7621S can restart
automatically even if a built-in protection is triggered with
external supply voltage. As shown in Figure 20 and
Figure 21; once any protections are triggered, M1 switch
turns on and V-I converter is disabled. CSS starts to be
discharged until the VCss across CSS drops to VCssL. Then
all protections are reset, M1 turns off, and V-I converter
resumes. The FAN7621S starts switching again with soft-
start. If the protections occur while VCss is under VCssL
and VCssH level, the switching is terminated immediately,
VCss continues to increase until reaching VCssH, then CSS
is discharged by M1.
Figure 20. Internal Block of AR Pin
After protections trigger, FAN7621S is disabled during
the stop-time, tstop, where VCss decreases and reaches to
VCssL. The stop-time of FAN7621S can be estimated as:
t
stop
=Css · Rss+Rmin || 5kΩ (5)
For the soft-start time, ts/s it can be set as Equation (4).
Figure 21. Self Auto-Restart Operation
5. Protection Circuits: The FAN7621S has several self-
protective functions, such as Over-Current Protection
(OCP), Abnormal Over-Current Protection (AOCP), Over-
Voltage Protection (OVP), and Thermal Shutdown (TSD).
These protections are auto-restart mode protections, as
shown in Figure 21.
Once a fault condition is detected, switching is
terminated and the MOSFETs remain off. When LVCC
falls to the LVCC stop voltage of 10V or the AR signal is
HIGH, the protection is reset. FAN7621S resumes normal
operation when LVCC reaches the start voltage of 12.5V.
Figure 22. Protection Blocks
5.1 Over-Current Protection (OCP): When the
sensing pin voltage drops below -0.58V, OCP is
triggered and the MOSFETs remain off. This protection
has a shutdown time delay of 1.5µs to prevent
premature shutdown during startup.
5.2 Abnormal Over-Current Protection (AOCP): If
the secondary rectifier diodes are shorted, large
current with extremely high di/dt can flow through the
MOSFET before OCP is triggered. AOCP is triggered
without shutdown delay when the sensing pin voltage
drops below -0.9V.
5.3 Over-Voltage Protection (OVP): When the LVCC
reaches 23V, OVP is triggered. This protection is used
when auxiliary winding of the transformer to supply VCC
to the controller is utilized.
5.4 Thermal Shutdown (TSD): If the temperature of
the junction exceeds approximately 130°C, the thermal
shutdown triggers.
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