General Description

AP1537 consists of step-down switching regulator with PWM control. These devices include a reference voltage source, oscillation circuit, error amplifier, internal PMOS and etc.

AP1537 provides low-ripple power, high efficiency, and excellent transient characteristics. The PWM control circuit is able to vary the duty ratio linearly from 0 up to 100. This converter also contains an error amplifier circuit as well as a soft-start circuit that prevents overshoot at startup. An enable function, an over current protect function and a short circuit protect function are built inside, and when OCP or SCP happens, the operation frequency will be reduced from 500KHz to 50KHz. Also, an internal compensation block is built in to minimum external component count.

Features

- Input voltage: 3.6V to 18V.

- Output voltage: 0.8V to VCC.

- Duty ratio: 0 to 100 PWM control

- Oscillation frequency: 500KHz typ.

- Soft-start, Current Limit, Enable function

- Thermal Shutdown function

- Built-in internal SW P-channel MOS

- Low ESR output capacitor (Multi-layer chip capacitor (MLCC)) application

- SOP-8L Pb-Free Package.

Applications

- PC Motherboard

- LCD Monitor

- Graphic Card

- DVD-Video Player

- Telecom Equipment

- ADSL Modem

- Printer and other Peripheral Equipment

- Microprocessor core supply

- Networking power supply