Achieving the performance the
TPS6287x-Q1 devices are capable of requires proper
PDN and PCB design. TI therefore recommends the user perform a power integrity
analysis on their design. There are a number of commercially available power
integrity software tools, and the user can use these tools to model the effects on
performance of the PCB layout and passive components.
In addition to the use of power
integrity tools, TI recommends the following basic principles:
- Place the input capacitors
close to the VIN and GND pins. Position the input capacitors in order of
increasing size, starting with the smallest capacitors closest to the VIN
and GND pins. Use an identical layout for both VIN-GND pin pairs of the
package, to gain maximum benefit from the butterfly configuration.
- Place the inductor close to
the device and keep the SW node small.
- Connect the exposed thermal
pad and the GND pins of the device together. Use multiple thermal vias to
connect the exposed thermal pad of the device to one or more ground planes
(TI's EVM uses nine 150-µm thermal vias).
- Use multiple power and ground
planes.
- Route the VOSNS and GOSNS
remote sense lines as a differential pair and connect them to the
lowest-impedance point of the PDN. If the desired connection point is not
the lowest impedance point of the PDN, optimize the PDN until it is. Do not
route the VOSNS and GOSNS close to any of the switch nodes.
- Connect the compensation
components between VOSNS and GOSNS. Do not connect the compensation
components directly to power ground.
- If possible, distribute the
output capacitors evenly between the TPS6287x-Q1 device and the point-of-load, rather than placing them
altogether in one place.
- Use multiple vias to connect
each capacitor pad to the power and ground planes (TI's EVM typically uses
four vias per pad).
- Use plenty of stitching vias
to ensure a low impedance connection between different power and ground
planes.