Preliminary Technical Data

ADM1178

Rev. PrD | Page 9 of 16

charged up with a 12 μA current source. At timepoint (5) the

threshold voltage of the FET is reached and the load current

begins to flow. The FET is controlled to keep the sense voltage

at 100 mV (this corresponds to a maximum load current level

have reached their full potential and the load current has settled

to its nominal level. Figure 5 illustrates the situation where the

VVCC

VON

VGATE

VOUT

VTIMER

INITIAL TIMING

CYCLE

(1)

(2)

(3) (4) (5)

(6)

VSENSE

Figure 4. Start-up (ON asserts as power is applied)

VVCC

VON

VGATE

VOUT

VTIMER

INITIAL TIMING

CYCLE

(1)

(2)

(3)(4)

(5)(6)

VSENSE

(7)

Figure 5. Start-up (ON asserts after power is applied)

HOTSWAP RETRY CYCLE ON ADM1178-1

With the ADM1178-1 the device will turn off the FET after an

overcurrent fault, and will then use the TIMER pin to time a

delay before automatically retrying to hotswap.

As with all ADM1178 devices, on overcurrent fault is timed by

charging the TIMER cap with a 60 μA pull-up current, and

when the TIMER pin reaches 1.3 V the fault current limit time

has been reached and the GATE pin is pulled down. On the

ADM1178-1, the TIMER pin is then pulled down with a 2 μA

current sink. When the TIMER pin reaches 0.2 V, it will

automatically restart the hotswap operation.

(8)

The retry duty cycle is thus given by

(9)