Integrated Circuit is designed for resonant converters.
Press Release Summary:
High-voltage IC L6599 features <30 mW power consumption and combines high-voltage floating structure tolerating more than 600 V with synchronous-driven high-voltage Lateral Double-diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Device enables 500 kHz operation with reduced EMI emissions, and allows design of power supplies suitable for LCDs, plasma TVs, and laptop ac/dc adapters. Other features include latch-up free operation with slew rates to 50 V/ns and over-current protection.
Original Press Release:
STMicroelectronics Introduces New Generation High-Voltage Integrated Circuit for Resonant Half-Bridge Topology
New Generation High-Voltage Integrated Circuit for Resonant Half-Bridge Topology
New high-voltage controller improves efficiency and compactness of resonant converters while lowering their noise emissions
Geneva, June 22, 2006 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a leader in manufacturing fully integrated Switch-Mode Power Supply (SMPS) ICs, today introduced an advanced double-ended controller specifically designed for the series-resonant half-bridge topology. Rich in functions and robust in design, the new-generation high-voltage IC guarantees excellent performance, allowing the design of fully protected and highly reliable power supplies that are particularly suited for use in applications such as Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and Plasma Display Panel (PDP) TVs, high-end AC-DC adapters for laptops and game consoles, 80+ initiative-compliant ATX silver boxes, servers and telecom SMPS.
An evolutionary advance over the previous L6598, the new L6599
The device operates at 50% complementary duty-cycle with a fixed dead-time inserted to ensure soft-switching. It enables high-frequency (up to 500kHz) operation with high efficiency and low Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) emissions. To drive the high-side switch with the bootstrap approach, the new device combines a high-voltage floating structure, able to withstand more than 600V, with a synchronous-driven high-voltage Lateral Double-diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) that eliminates the need for an external fast-recovery bootstrap diode.
The L6599 provides a typical peak current capability for both gate drivers of 0.6A source and 1.2A sink and enables designers to set the operating frequency range by using an externally programmable oscillator.
A non linear soft-start prevents inrush current and minimizes output-voltage overshoot. The device also features a controlled burst-mode operation, thus considerably reducing the average switching frequency and the associated losses under lightly loaded or unloaded conditions.
With the new resonant controller, designers can meet energy-saving requirements even in power-factor-corrected systems. A dedicated output enables the IC to switch off the Power Factor Corrector (PFC) pre-regulator during burst-mode operation, hence eliminating the no-load consumption of this stage.
Other key features of the L6599 include low power consumption (< 30mW), guaranteed latch-up free operation with slew rates up to 50V/ns, a not-latched disable input, and a high-performance Over-Current Protection (OCP) providing complete protection against both overload and short circuits. An additional latched disable input allows easy implementation of Over-Temperature (OTP) and/or Over-Voltage Protection (OVP).
The L6599 is offered in three versions: type L6599N is assembled in a PDIP16 package; L6599D and L6599DTR in a SO16N package. In production now, the IC is $1.20 each in 25,000 unit quantities.
Further information is available at www.st.com/powermanagement
This press release is also available at st.com/stonline/stappl/press/news/year2006/p2023.htm
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