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I designed a buck converter with your LM5017. The converter is used as a power supply for other electronics and is supposed to convert 48V to 12V. In real measurements the circuit performed very well. The problem I incurred was in simulations. I used the “LM5017 Unencrypted PSpice Transient Model” found on your web site (http://www.ti.com/product/LM5017/toolssoftware). In my simulations I get similar (almost the same) results as when measured, but only with no load. If I add a load (47 or 56 Ohm as in measurements) the output voltage begins to rapidly plummet as soon as load is active (this did not happen when measured).
So can you help me with this problem?
Other components: power inductor used is 47µH, capacitor on the input is 220µF, on the output capacitor is 2.2µF, Ron=100kOhm
Many thanks for your time!
Anna,
What simulator are you using? Can you provide the circuit that you are simulating?
Anna,
Glad you found the issue. I have tested the model in PSpice and it seemed to be functioning correctly. Unfortunately, with LTSpice, our hands are tied due to the EULA for the software. We are not allowed to use it and cannot help customers with the use of it for our products.
Thanks for your interest in TI Products.
TI does provide a free simulator (TINA-TI) for use with our products. You may want to take a look at it in the future.
Hi Britt,
in the end it was better than before, but still not good enough.
I tried in Tina-TI as you sugested. It solved circuit without parasits. When I added circuit model (PCB) it stopped working, convergence problem.
Do you have any idea how should this issue be solved?
Thank you for your time!
Anna