TPD2S300: CC Line Capacitor selection

Hi Shmuel,

The first post hyperlink above talks about the CC line capacitance according to USB-PD specs.

A min of 200pF and a max of 600pF is the spec on the CC lines. According to the TPD2s300 datasheet, there's a min capacitance of 30pF on our device. I would recommend adding a 180pF cap on each CC line. This will add up to 210pF (right above min for PD spec) and I'm assuming that the other device (TUSB320LAI ) won't have an internal capacitance above 390nF.

If for some reason the cap value on the CC lines is above 600pF with both devices and the 180pF, you can depopulate the cap and add a lower value to the board, but I think that the 180pF cap should be fine :-)

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Dear Aramis P. Alvarez,
Thank you for this response.

In the Proposed capacitor calculations of TPD6S300 data sheet it states that : (For min and max, assume ±50% capacitance change with temperature and voltage derating to be overly conservative)

Should we consider this also here ? If yes then the target capacitance give your suggested value will (if assume that the other device (TUSB320LAI ) won't have an internal capacitance) gives a TOTAL min value of 120 pF which is below the required 200pF capacitance ?

Best regards

Shmuel

Hi Shmuel,

You could try different values of capacitance. I would start with 180pF and see if that solves the problem. If not, you can increase the cap by 50-100pF each time (until you hit the max of 600pF according to USB PD3.0 spec) by depopulating and repopulating a new value onto the board.

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Dear Aramis P. Alvarez,

Thank you again for your reply. 

If the capacitance is not correct - what "problem" are you expecting that the changing of capacitance "on the fly" will fix it ?

BTW: From my calculations if we do assume ±50% capacitance change with temperature and voltage derating of the "proposed capacitance" :- 

MIN : 340 pF ==> 340 - (340/2) = 170

+TPD2S300 MIN capacitance ==> 200pF

MAX: 320pF ==> 320 + (320/2) = 480
+TPD2S300 MAX capacitance ==>600 pF

Best regards

Shmuel 

Dear Aramis P. Alvarez,

Thank you again for your reply. 

If the capacitance is not correct - what "problem" are you expecting that the changing of capacitance "on the fly" will fix it ?

Best regards

Shmuel 

Dear Aramis P. Alvarez,

Thanks for that. Thus if I understood you correctly then for each capacitor value used will need to be checked when our device is plugged into a specific Host USB port and see if the Host provides power to my device ? I assume there is no easy way to measure the total capacitance on the CC channels ?

Best regards

Shmuel

Dear Aramis P. Alvarez,

Do we have to be concerned about "±50% capacitance change with temperature and voltage derating of the "proposed capacitance" as outlined  Proposed capacitor calculations of TPD6S300 data sheet also for TPD2S300 ?

Shmuel 

Dear Aramis P. Alvarez,

Thank for those articles. I read the first one, your right it is a great article. However there it appears from that article that the variation in capacitance that appears to be of most concern is the drop in capacitance rather than the rise. Also it appears that in certain circumstances there can be a much larger drop in capacitance than -15% - from their measurements there could be a drop in capacitance of up to 67% ? Thus when you suggested 180pF as a "starting value" giving a total of 210pF (when taking the worse case scenario TPD2S300 capacitance of 30pF and assuming that the TUSB320LAI has minimal capacitance) a drop of > 5% of the chosen capacitor would put me out of the range of the spec on the CC lines ? Of course unless I assume that the TUSB320LAI could potentially have up to 100s of pF of capacitance but I have not been given a clear answer yet on the capacitance of the TUSB320LAI ?

Hi Shmuel,

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Thank you so much for your question and choosing TI parts for your design :-)

Dear Aramis P. Alvarez,

Thank you for all your help on this but I didn't yet set this thread as "this resolved my issue" since I need a little more info to my response on Jan 22nd, 2018 ?

Best regards

Shmuel

No problem at all Shmuel. Let me know if you need anymore help on the CC capacitance.

Yes please could you look back at my response on Jan 22nd, 2018. Could you please address the issues I raised there ? Thank you so much