UC3842T UC3843T
UC3844T UC3845T
®
HIGH PERFORMANCE CURRENT MODE PWM CONTROLLER
TRIMMED OSCILLATOR FOR PRECISE FRE-
QUENCY CONTROL
OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY GUARANTEED
AT 250kHz
CURRENT MODE OPERATION TO 500kHz
AUTOMATIC FEED FORWARD COMPENSA-
TION
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.
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Minidip
SO8
LATCHING PWM FOR CYCLE-BY-CYCLE
CURRENT LIMITING
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INTERNALLY TRIMMED REFERENCE WITH
UNDERVOLTAGE LOCKOUT
HIGH CURRENT TOTEM POLE OUTPUT
UNDERVOLTAGE LOCKOUT WITH HYSTER-
ESIS
comparatorwhich also providescurrentlimitcontrol,
and a totem pole output stage designed to source
or sink high peak current. The output stage, suitable
for driving N-Channel MOSFETs, is low in the off-
state.
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LOW START-UP AND OPERATING CURRENT
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Differences between members of this family are the
under-voltage lockout thresholds and maximum duty
cycle ranges. The UC3842T and UC3844T have
UVLO thresholds of 16V (on) and 10V (off), ideally
suited to off-line applications The corresponding
thresholds for the UC3843T and UC3845T are 8.5 V
and 7.9 V. The UC3842T and UC3843T can operate
to duty cycles approaching 100%. A range of zero to
< 50 % is obtained by the UC3844T and UC3845T by
the addition of an internal toggle flip flop which blanks
the output off every other clock cycle.
DESCRIPTION
The UC384XT family of control ICs provides the
necessary features to implement off-line or DC to
DC fixed frequency current mode control schemes
with a minimal external parts count. Internally imple-
mented circuits include a trimmed oscillator for pre-
cise DUTY CYCLE CONTROL under voltage lock-
outfeaturing start-up current less than 0.5mA, a pre-
cision reference trimmed for accuracy at the error
amp input, logic to insure latched operation, a PWM
BLOCK DIAGRAM (toggle flip flop used only in UC3844T and UC3845T)
7
Vi
UVLO
34V
8
6
5V
REF
VREF
5V 50mA
5
S/R
GROUND
INTERNAL
BIAS
2.50V
VREF GOOD
LOGIC
OUTPUT
4
RT/CT
OSC
ERROR AMP.
T
2R
+
-
S
2
1
3
VFB
R
PWM
LATCH
R
1V
COMP
CURRENT
SENSE
CURRENT
SENSE
COMPARATOR
D95IN331
September 2001
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