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Hello,
we did this design around a LM2734XMK*. 15V or 6V4 input to 5V output.
Thousands were produced.
There is an unusual failure rate. Rare cases. But higher rate than expected.
The external schottky SS12 diode blows up without apparent reason.
Note that it seems to be a 'slow death' as the PCB area around is cooked when this happens.
PCB layout is very compact, designed 'by the book', as per datasheet, also using webench.
Temperature environment around 35 to 55degc.
Light load on the converter.
High speed scope probes were used to check for ringing, voltage spikes... all is very clean.
New diode was measured using a component tester. Reverse voltage confirmed to be much highr than the spec.
Applied strong over heat to components : no effect.
One particularity is that the input voltage +15V_PSA1 dynamically changes from
6.5V to 15V and back.
Can this be an issue?
Overall a very simple schematics, causing us a lot of troubles.
Hope you can shed some light.
Thanks,
Jean-Baptiste