ZHCSCA8A March 2014 – April 2019 TPS65286
PRODUCTION DATA.
A minimum 10-µF X7R/X5R ceramic input capacitor is recommended to be added between VIN and GND. These capacitors should be connected as close as physically possible to the input terminals of the converters as they handle the RMS ripple current shown in Equation 19. For this example, Iout = 6 A, Vout = 5 V, minimum Vin_min = 24 V. The input capacitors must support a ripple current of 2.4-A RMS.
The input capacitance value determines the input ripple voltage of the regulator. The input voltage ripple can be calculated using Equation 20. Using the design example values, Iout_max = 6 A, Cin = 22 µF, fsw = 500 kHz, yields an input voltage ripple of 136 mV.
To prevent large voltage transients, a low ESR capacitor sized for the maximum RMS current must be used.