Application information
L6564
6.6
Power management/housekeeping functions
A communication line with the control IC of the cascaded dc-dc converter can be
established via the disable function included in the PFC_OK pin (see “Feedback failure
protection” section for more details). Typically this line is used to allow the PWM controller of
the cascaded dc-dc converter to shut down the L6564 in case of light load and to minimize
the no-load input consumption. Should the residual consumption of the chip be an issue, it is
also possible to cut down the supply voltage. Interface circuits like those are shown in figure
32. Needless to say, this operation assumes that the cascaded dc-dc converter stage works
as the master and the PFC stage as the slave or, in other words, that the dc-dc stage starts
first, it powers both controllers and enables/disables the operation of the PFC stage.
Figure 40. Interface circuits that let dc-dc converter's controller IC disable the L6564