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Hello!
Thanks in advance for your help. A bit of an unorthodox question, but I need your help to break this chip! We have several boards coming back from the field with this IC burnt (some look okay, some burnt to a crisp, but all have SW shorted to ground internally) and I need to see how it can be recreated.
Some application background: Input is a 4-series cell Li-ion pack (we limit it to 12V-16.4V) and output is 12V to an outward facing barrel jack. We picked this IC for its 100% duty cycle (many others that advertise 100% duty require split power, Vin > PVin). Max load is 3.5A.
Since this IC has both over-current protection and thermal shutdown, there aren't many easy ways to recreate a failure such as this. Looking at the functional block diagram, it looks like current is measured using the Rds(on) of the high side and low side FETs.
- Is the only way to defeat both the OCP and thermal shutdown for one/both of the FETs to fail as shorts?
- If you wanted to recreate a thermal failure for this IC, what would you do? (Maybe apply an excessive voltage to the output?)
Let me know if you need any other info!