The UCD3138xA is a digital power supply controller from Texas Instruments offering superior levels of integration and performance in a single chip solution. The UCD3138128A offers 128 kB of program flash memory in comparison to 32 kB in UCD3138A. and it also provides additional options for communication such as SPI and a second I2C/PMBus port. The availability of of program Flash memory in multiple 32 kB banks enables designers to implement dual images of firmware (that is, one main image + one back-up image) in the device and provides the option to execute from either of the banks using appropriate algorithms. It also creates the unique opportunity for the processor to load a new program and subsequently execute that program without interrupting power delivery. This feature allows the end user to add new features to the power supply in the field while eliminating any down-time required to load the new program.

The flexible nature of the UCD3138xA family makes it suitable for a wide variety of power conversion applications. In addition, multiple peripherals inside the device have been specifically optimized to enhance the performance of AC/DC and isolated DC/DC applications and reduce the solution component count in the IT and network infrastructure space. The UCD3138xA family is a fully programmable solution offering customers complete control of their application, along with ample flexibility for many solutions. At the same time, TI is committed to simplifying our customer’s development effort through offering best in class development tools, including application firmware, Code Composer StudioTMsoftware development environment, and TI’s Fusion Power Development GUI which enables customers to configure and monitor key system parameters.

At the core of the controller are the Digital Power Peripherals (DPP). Each DPP implements a high speed digital control loop consisting of a dedicated Error Analog to Digital Converter (EADC), a PID based 2 pole - 2 zero digital compensator and DPWM outputs with 250 ps pulse width resolution. The device also contains a 12-bit, 539 ksps general purpose ADC with up to 15 channels, timers, interrupt control, PMBus, I2C, SPI and UART communications ports. The device is based on a 32-bit ARM7TDMI-S RISC microcontroller that performs real-time monitoring, configures peripherals and manages communications. The ARM microcontroller executes its program out of programmable flash memory as well as on chip RAM and ROM.Read more