Unitrode UC3854A B and UC3855A B Provide Power Limiting With Sinusoidal Input Current for PFC Front Ends

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Niveau: Supérieur, Doctorat, Bac+8
Unitrode - UC3854A/B and UC3855A/B Provide Power Limiting With Sinusoidal Input Current for PFC Front Ends by Laszlo Balogh This design note focuses on one of the major im- provements introduced to the industry standard UC3854 high power factor boost controller. The new UC3854A/B versions eliminated the need for external components to clamp the voltage and current error amplifier outputs and optimized the voltage levels of some of the sense circuitry. All of these issues are already covered by DN-39 design note (present release is version E). The following aspects were expressed implicitly, in previous literature, and are now described in fur- ther details. What makes intelligent power limiting possible with the UC3854A/B and with the newer UC3855A/B ZVS high power factor controllers, is that the maximum value of the multiplier output current is not directly related to the current of the RSET resistor any more. Instead, it is limited to be equal or smaller than twice the instantaneous value of the IAC current. This new feature provides a very delicate and ef- fective way to limit input power to the power fac- tor corrector front-end while the converter still maintains a sinusoidal input current waveform. It has to be emphasized here that the power limit- ing scheme of the UC3854A/B does produce sinusoidal input current waveform even if the load is a negative impedance, like DC-DC con- verters.

• after all design


• power can


• input voltage


• dc- dc converter


• estimate rac resistance


• output power


• all normalized


• full rated

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• Mathcad

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• Publié par: profil-zyak-2012
• Nombre de lectures: 65
• Langue: English

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Design Note Unitrode - UC3854A/B and UC3855A/B Provide Power Limiting With Sinusoidal Input Current for PFC Front Ends

by Laszlo Balogh

This design note focuses on one of the major im- provements introduced to the industry standard UC3854 high power factor boost controller. The new UC3854A/B versions eliminated the need for external components to clamp the voltage and current error amplifier outputs and optimized the voltage levels of some of the sense circuitry. All of these issues are already covered by DN-39 design note (present release is version E). The following aspects were expressed implicitly, in previous literature, and are now described in fur- ther details.

What makes intelligent power limiting possible with the UC3854A/B and with the newer UC3855A/B ZVS high power factor controllers, is that the maximum value of the multiplier output current is not directly related to the current of the R SET resistor any more.

Instead, it is limited to be equal or smaller than twice the instantaneous value of the I AC current. This new feature provides a very delicate and ef- fective way to limit input power to the power fac- tor corrector front-end while the converter still maintains a sinusoidal input current waveform. It has to be emphasized here that the power limit- ing scheme of the UC3854A/B does produce sinusoidal input current waveform even if the load is a negative impedance, like DC-DC con- verters. In these cases, special care has to be taken to guarantee that the output voltage of the boost power factor corrector is greater than the peak value of the input line voltage at all operat- ing equilibrium. This can be insured by setting the power limiting of the DC-DC converter below the maximum power handling capability of the PFC stage.

In order to establish a straightforward design pro- cedure for the multiplier setup, first a basic rela- tionship should be shown. The ratio of the multiplier output current, (I MO ) and the I AC  cur- rent is constant within one cycle of the AC input because:

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V RMS ·Ö`2·sin(w·t! I AC (t! 1  (1) R AC and I AC (t!·(V EA %1.5! I MO (t! 1  (2) 2 K·(A·V RMS ! where, V RMS the RMS value of the AC input voltage; is V EA  isthe voltage error amplifier saturation volt- age (V OH ); K isthe multiplier constant (K = 1); A isthe divider ratio to the V RMS pin of the IC. The ratio of I MO (t) to I AC (t) is given as: I MO ( t!V EA %1.5 R1 1 (3) 2 I AC (t! K·(A · V RMS ! which is determined only by the RMS value of the input voltage and stays constant within one line cycle. In the case of a well executed design, the ratio will be equal to two - right at the minimum input voltage where the rated output power is still ex- pected to be delivered. Figure 1 shows the opti- mal ratio of I MO  andI AC  asa function of the normalized input voltage. The horizontal axis of

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0 0.5 1 1.5 V RMS, NORM I MO Figure 1. Ideal Ratio I AC