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SLPS382C – JANUARY 2013 – REVISED JULY 2013

Zero Crossing (ZX) Operation

The zero crossing comparator is adaptive for improved accuracy. As the output current decreases from a heavy

load condition, the inductor current also reduces and eventually arrives at a valley, where it touches zero current,

which is the boundary between continuous conduction and discontinuous conduction modes. The SW pin detects

the zero-current condition. When this zero inductor current condition occurs, the ZX comparator turns off the

rectifying MOSFET.

Integrated Boost-Switch

To maintain a BST-SW voltage close to VDD (to get lower conduction losses on the high-side FET), the

conventional diode between the VDD pin and the BST pin is replaced by a FET which is gated by the DRVL

signal.

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