LTC4098-3.6
APPLICATIONS INFORMATION
are linked. Therefore, only one of the two trip points can
be chosen, the other is determined by the default ratios
designed in the IC. Consider an example where a 70°C
hot trip point is desired.
From the Vishay curve 1 R-T characteristics, aHOT is
0.1753 at 70°C. Using the previous equation, RNOM should
be set to 70.4k. With this value of RNOM, the cold trip point
is 7°C. Notice that the span is now 63°C rather than the
previous 60°C. This is due to the decrease in temperature
gain of the thermistor as absolute temperature increases.
The upper and lower temperature trip points can be inde-
pendently programmed by using an additional bias resistor
as shown in Figure 9b. The following formulas can be used
to compute the values of RNOM and R1:
RNOM
=
αCOLD – αHOT
3.01
• R25
R1= 0.25 • RNOM – αHOT • R25
For example, to set the trip points to 0°C and 70°C with
a Vishay curve 1 thermistor choose:
USB Inrush Limiting
The USB specification allows at most 10µF of downstream
capacitance to be hot-plugged into a USB hub. In most
LTC4098-3.6 applications, 10µF should be enough to
provide adequate filtering on VBUS.
If more capacitance is required, the OVP circuit will provide
adequate soft-connect time to prevent excessive inrush
currents. An additional 22µF on the VBUS pin will gener-
ally contribute less than 100mA to the hot-plug inrush
current.
Voltage overshoot on VBUS may sometimes be observed
when connecting the LTC4098-3.6 to a lab power supply.
This overshoot is caused by long leads from the power
supply to VBUS. Twisting the wires together from the sup-
ply to VBUS can greatly reduce the parasitic inductance
of these long leads, and keep the voltage at VBUS to safe
levels. USB cables are generally manufactured with the
power leads in close proximity, and thus fairly low parasitic
inductance.
RNOM
=
3.26 – 0.1753
3.01
• 100k
=
102.5k
the nearest 1% value is 102k:
R1 = 0.25 • 102k – 0.1753 • 100k = 7.97k
the nearest 1% value is 8.06k. The final circuit is shown
in Figure 9b and results in an upper trip point of 70°C and
a lower trip point of 0°C.
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