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Vishay Siliconix
Designing A High-Voltage Non-Isolated Buck-Boost Converter with the Si9121DY
Nitin Kalje
INTRODUCTION
The Si9121DY is a non-isolated buck-boost converter IC, operating from a wide input voltage range of –10 to –60 V with minimal external components. This polarity inverter converts –48 V to +5 V or +3.3 V, making it suitable for applications including digital phones and ISDN power supplies. A non-isolated buck-boost design with the Si9121 eliminates the need for an expensive transformer, while its integrated low on-resistance MOSFET driver, floating feedback error amplifier, fixed-frequency oscillator, output voltage sensing resistor divider, and depletion mode MOSFET for start up/VCC regulation reduce the external component count to less than 10.