UCD9246
SLVSA34 –JANUARY 2010
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Each rail can be optionally configured to monitor a sequencing input pin for a specified period of time after it
turns on and reaches its power good threshold. If the programmable timeout is reached before the input pin state
matches its defined logic level, the rail is shut down, and a status error posted. This feature could be used, for
example, to ensure that an LDO on the board did turn on when the main system voltage came up. Each rail is
enabled independently of the other rails and has a unique timeout value; a single input pin is used as the timeout
source.
The setup of the GPIO_SEQ_CONFIG command is aided by the use of the Fusion Digital Power™ Designer,
which graphically displays relationships between rails and provides intuitive controls to allocate and configure
available resources.
The following pins are available for use as sequencing control, provided they are not being used for their primary
purpose:
PIN NAME 64-PIN
DPWM-1A IN/OUT
DPWM-1B IN/OUT
DPWM-2A IN/OUT
DPWM-2B IN/OUT
DPWM-3A IN/OUT
DPWM-4A IN/OUT
FLT-1A IN/OUT
FLT-1B IN/OUT
FLT-2A IN/OUT
FLT-2B IN/OUT
FLT-3A IN/OUT
FLT-4A IN/OUT
SRE-1A IN/OUT
SRE-1B IN/OUT
SRE-2A IN/OUT
SRE-2B IN/OUT
SRE-3A IN/OUT
SRE-4A IN/OUT
PGOOD IN/OUT
SEQ-1 IN/OUT
SEQ-2 IN
Non-volatile Memory Error Correction Coding
The UCD9246 uses Error Correcting Code (ECC) to improve data integrity and provide high reliability storage of
Data Flash contents. ECC uses dedicated hardware to generate extra check bits for the user data as it is written
into the Flash memory. This adds an additional six bits to each 32-bit memory word stored into the Flash array.
These extra check bits, along with the hardware ECC algorithm, allow for any single bit error to be detected and
corrected when the Data Flash is read.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Automatic System Identification ( Auto-ID™)
By using digital circuits to create the control function for a switch-mode power supply, additional features can be
implemented. One of those features is the measurement of the open loop gain and stability margin of the power
supply without the use of external test equipment. This capability is called automatic system identification or
Auto-ID™. To identify the frequency response, the UCD9246 internally synthesizes a sine wave signal and
injects it into the loop at the DPWM output DAC. This signal excites the system, and the closed-loop response to
that excitation can be measured at another point in the loop. The UCD9246 measures the response to the
excitation at the EADC input. The open-loop transfer function may be calculated from the closed-loop response.
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