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MC44608 SMPS Featuring
Very Low Standby Power
Consumption and Wide
Range Output Voltage
Prepared by: Jan Grulich
ON Semiconductor Central Lab
Roznov, CZ
As it is well known, according to power saving
regulations, we need to obtain a very low power
consumption during standby condition for all equipment
continuously powered on the mains. For “not saving”
version of power supply, the standby power consumption is
around 9.0 W (for 100 W power output). When using the
MC44608 GreenLine Power supply controller, we obtain
1.3 W in standby mode. The result is absolutely
phenomenal, but still, for some special applications, the
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power reduction is not enough. In this case the only
possibility to obtain a lower consumption in standby is to use
a separate low output power supply (< 1.0 W) for powering
only the microprocessor and switch off the rest of the
application. The MC44608 is basically not designed for that
use. However this is achievable by adding a few more
components to the typical application schematic. In this case
we can reach a standby power consumption as low as
200 mW.
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This result largely over passes the today standby
power saving recommendations, meeting the 2005
recommendation limits.
Final price cost of additional components is below then
0.5 US$ and the total price of this power supply remains the
same, compared to typical application circuitry, since all
components dealing with the reconfiguration of secondary
side can be removed.
The basic idea to reach this performance is to power the
IC in the phase, in which it has the lowest power
consumption. At the same time is necessary to stop the
operation of the output stage and leave IC in steady state
conditions. In this case the secondary side output
reconfiguration topology is not used.
Schematic of whole SMPS is presented in Figure 1.

100n/AC VAR1 1N4007 10u/400V 27K/2W

T0.5 A 33mH/1A V275LA4 1N4007 10u/400V 47n/250V
C1 R3
1 1n/500V 15R
FJ1 D2 E1 E5 R4
TL1 220u/50V
C7 D4 C2
C6 10 1
D5 9 D12 2 35V
E3 E4
1 2 100n/AC MUR420 R9
D6 5 8k2 CON2
ARK500/2
1N4007 220u/50V
AC 1N4007 D1
MUR160 4 7
CON1 R1 6 1
ARK500/2 3 FBO
120k 2
IO1
D3 MC44608P–40
R10 CON3
1N4148 1 8 ARK500/2
Demag V1 1k0
47u/16V 6
T1
VCC 5
E2 Driver MTP6N60E 1
3
Control R7
2 REG
4 2 220R PT1
GND Isense
R8 10k CON4
R11 ARK500/2
C3 3k9 R5
100n 2R2
OC1 R2
PC817 22k PT2
220R
1k

C4 R14
100 n R6 2k7
2k0
D7 OC2
R17 1N4148 IO2
PC817
100k TL431CLP R13
R15 330R
100k
R16
ZD1 R12 1k 1
Transformer Details: 9V1 4M7 2 SBY
Core: EF25 N87 Epcos
Primar: 220 Turns 0.3 dia CON5
Secondary: 52 Turns 0.5 dia ARK500/2
C5
Aux.: 22 Turns 0.3 dia 2n2/4kV
Gap for Prim. Inductance 7mH

Figure 1. Schematic of SMPS

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As shown in Figure 1, the schematic includes all
components to build a real application: safety fuse, input
EMI filter, over voltage protection and rectifier, two filtering
capacitors (2 capacitors for smaller ESR and therefore lower
the EMI radiation). The power switch used here is the
MTP6N60E. A standard RDC clamp in parallel with the
primary winding is used as a spike protection. At the source
of power switch a current sensing resistor R11 leads the
signal to Isense pin of the IC through R8. The aux. winding
of the transformer is used to power the Vcc pin of the IC and
also provides demagnetization information. On the
secondary winding the diode D12 supplies energy for
secondary load. This diode is protected against voltage
spikes by RC series combination (C1, R3). This voltage is
used to feed control loop through the opto coupler OC1. This
regulation is based on standard shunt regulator using
monolithic TL431CLP.
Input Voltage Input Power
200 V 20.0 W
230 V 20.0 W
260 V 20.0 W
For maximal output power
230 V 22.8 W
The plots below show some waveforms at critical test points:
Figure 2. Output Voltage After Switch Off
Trace 1: Voltage at cathode of TL431CLP
Trace 2: Output voltage
Trace 3: Control signal for standby
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To put the SMPS in standby mode a simple circuit (OC2,
R16, R15, D7, ZD1) is added. When a 5.0 V logic signal is
present on the standby connector, through the opto coupler
OC2 a signal feeds the demag input of control IC. This
causes a permanent stop of output signal and no more energy
is transferred. The Vcc pin of the IC is now supplied through
R17 and D7. The Vcc is maintained at a voltage higher 6.5 V
and below 10 V. The IC remains in a latched off phase. The
total consumption in this case is well below 200 mW.
We add an additional feature to drive the output voltage
from a microcomputer.
Potentiometer PT2, R13, R14, R6 feed the control loops.
R9 and R10 send the correction information to the
microcomputer. Output voltage range and gain of control
signal are adjustable by potentiometers PT1 and PT2.
In the table below are summarized measured values:
Output Power Efficiency
16.3 W 81.5%
16.3 W 81.5%
16.3 W 81.5%
19.6 W 85.9%
Figure 3. Output Voltage After Switch On
Trace 1: Voltage at cathode of TL431CLP
Trace 2: Output voltage
Trace 3: Control signal for standby
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Figure 4. Zoomed Rising Edge of Figure 3 Figure 5. Output Voltage Regulation

Trace 1: Voltage at cathode of TL431CLP Trace 2: Output voltage

Trace 2: Output voltage Trace 3: Control signal for voltage regulation
Trace 3: Control signal for standby

Figure 6. Minimal Period of Regulation Figure 7. Primary Side Waveforms

Trace 2: Output voltage Trace 1: Voltage at gate of power switch

Trace 3: Control signal for voltage regulation Trace 2: Drain current of power switch
Trace 3: Drain voltage of power switch

Figure 8. Switching Waveforms Figure 9. Primary Side Waveform

Trace 1: Voltage at pin 10 of transformer Trace 2: Detailed drain voltage of power switch
Trace 2: Voltage at pin 3 of transformer

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