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DESIGN GUIDE FOR THE Si3210/15/16 DC-DC CONVERTER
Introduction
The ProSLIC® from Silicon Laboratories integrates a requirements and selecting component values for each
complete analog telephone interface into one of the dc-dc converter architectures.
low-voltage CMOS device and offers extensive software
Si321x DC-DC Converter Description
programmability to meet many global telephony
requirements and customer specifications. In addition to The dc-dc converter dynamically generates the large
performing all BORSCHT functions, the Si321x also negative voltages required to operate the linefeed
dynamically generates and controls its own battery interface. The Si321x acts as the controller for a
voltage, eliminating the need for external battery buck-boost dc-dc converter that converts a positive dc
supplies. Two different battery generation architectures voltage into the desired negative battery voltage. In
are supported: a BJT/inductor design offering a low-cost addition to eliminating external power supplies, this
battery supply solution, and a MOSFET/transformer allows the Si321x to minimize power dissipation by
design offering increased power efficiency and a wider dynamically controlling the battery voltage to the
range of input voltages. This application note gives minimum required for any given mode of operation.
specific guidance in determining dc-dc converter power
Twisted
Telephone
Pair Line
RLINE
Hook SW.
Input
Output
+
2
TIP
+
+
DC-DC
Converter
VDC
VBAT
–
VTR
–
–
RLINE
2
RING
Linefeed Circuitry
Ringer
RDC
Figure 1. Linefeed Power Diagram
in parallel to the TIP and RING lines, the equivalent
impedance of the parallel ringers can be computed as
the following (NREN is limited to 1 to 5):
Power Output Requirement
Understanding the maximum power required by the
ProSLIC linefeed circuitry to operate a worst-case
specified load is the first step in determining the dc-dc
converter design solution. Figure 1 defines the linefeed
circuit and load circuit in basic blocks of circuitry.
7000
-----------------
=
RNREN
NREN
During ringing, the TIP-to-RING peak voltage, V
,
TR_PK
Typically, the ringing state is the highest power
consumption state for the SLIC, but in special cases the
off-hook state can have the highest. Guidance in
calculating each of these states is offered in this
section.
is the sum of the rms voltage drop across the ringer
circuit, V , the line resistance, and the internal
RINGrms
source resistance of 160 Ω.
VRINGrms
× 2
7000
NREN
---------------------------------------
-----------------
The ringer impedance of one telephone is defined as an
8 µF cap in series with a 6930 Ω resistor. This is
approximately the same impedance as 7000 Ω at 20 Hz
and is defined as 1 REN (ringing equivalence number).
Since there can be N number of telephones connected
VTR_PK
=
×
+ RLINE + Rs
7000 ⁄ NREN
Rev. 0.5 7/03
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