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Design Guide

DETERMINING DUTY-CYCLE (D)

Duty cycle (D) approximately equals:

With efficiency considered:

For simplicity, choose efficiency between 75% and 85%.

CALCULATING OFF-TIME

The “Off-Time” of the LM3445 is set by the user and remains

fairly constant as long as the voltage of the LED stack remains

constant. Calculating the off-time is the first step in determin-

ing the switching frequency of the converter, which is integral

in determining some external component values.

PNP transistor Q3, resistor R4, and the LED string voltage

define a charging current into capacitor C11. A constant cur-

rent into a capacitor creates a linear charging characteristic.

Resistor R4, capacitor C11 and the current through resistor

R4 (i

COLL), which is approximately equal to VLED/R4, are all

fixed. Therefore, dv is fixed and linear, and dt (t

OFF) can now

be calculated.

Common equations for determining duty cycle and switching

frequency in any buck converter:

Therefore:

With efficiency of the buck converter in mind:

Substitute equations and rearrange:

Off-time, and switching frequency can now be calculated us-

ing the equations above.

SETTING THE SWITCHING FREQUENCY

Selecting the switching frequency for nominal operating con-

ditions is based on tradeoffs between efficiency (better at low

frequency) and solution size/cost (smaller at high frequency).

The input voltage to the buck converter (V

BUCK) changes with

both line variations and over the course of each half-cycle of

the input line voltage. The voltage across the LED string will,

however, remain constant, and therefore the off-time remains

constant.

The on-time, and therefore the switching frequency, will vary

as the V

BUCK voltage changes with line voltage. A good design

practice is to choose a desired nominal switching frequency

knowing that the switching frequency will decrease as the line

voltage drops and increase as the line voltage increases (see

figure 16).

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FIGURE 16. Graphical Illustration of Switching

Frequency vs V

BUCK

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