
Qorvo Power Application Controller®
Qorvo Power Application Controller® (PAC) is highly optimized for controlling and powering next-generation smart energy appliances, devices, and equipment. These application controllers integrate a 50MHz Arm® Cortex®-M0 32-bit microcontroller core with proprietary Multi-Mode Power Manager™, Configurable Analog Front End™, and Application Specific Power Drivers™ to form compact microcontroller-based power and general-purpose application systems ranging from digital power supply to motor control. These Qorvo microcontrollers feature up to 32kB of embedded Flash and 8kB of SRAM memory, a high-speed 10-bit 1μs analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with dual auto-sampling sequencers, 5V/3.3V I/Os, flexible clock sources, timers, a versatile 14-channel PWM engine, and several serial interfaces.Features
- Proprietary multi-mode power manage
- Multi-mode switching supply controller configurable as high-voltage or ultra-high-voltage buck, AC/DC, or flyback
- DC supply up to 52V or line AC input
- Four linear regulators with power and hibernate management
- Power and temperature monitor, warning, and fault detection
- Proprietary configurable analog front end
- Ten analog front-end I/O pins
- Three differential programmable gain amplifiers
- Four single-ended programmable gain amplifiers
- Ten comparators
- Two DACs (10-bit and 8-bit)
- Proprietary application-specific power drivers
- Three low-side and three high-side gate drivers
- 1A gate driving capability
- Two open-drain drivers
- Configurable delays and fast fault protection
- 50MHz Arm Cortex-M0 32-bit microcontroller core
- Fast single cycle 32-bit x 32-bit multiplier
- 24-bit SysTick timer
- Nested vectored interrupt controller (NVIC) with 20 external interrupts
- Wake-up interrupt controller allowing power-saving sleep modes
- Clock-gating allows low-power operation
- 32kB Flash and 8kB SRAM memory
- 10-bit 1μs ADC with multi-input/multi-sample control engine
- 11 ADC inputs, including input from configurable analog front end
- 3.3V I/Os
- Four general-purpose I/Os with tri-state and dedicated analog input to ADC
- True 5V I/Os
- 14 general purpose I/Os with tri-state, pull-up, and pull-down and dedicated I/O supply
- Configurable as true 5V or 3.3V I/Os
- Flexible clock and PLL from internal 2% oscillator, ring oscillator, external clock, or crystal
- Nine timing generators
- Four 16-bit timers with up to 16 PWM/CC blocks and seven independent dead-time controllers
- 24-bit watchdog timer
- 4s or 8s watchdog timer
- 24-bit real-time clock
- 24-bit SysTick timer
- Wake-up timer for sleep modes from 0.125s to 8s
- SPI, I2C, and UART communication interfaces
- SWD debug interface with interface disable function
Applications
- General-purpose high-voltage system controllers
- Home appliances
- Power tools
- Motor controllers
- LED lighting controllers
- Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
- Solar micro-inverters
- Wireless power controllers
- Digital power controllers
- Industrial applications
Power Application Controller Application Circuit

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Published: 2014-06-16
| Updated: 2025-04-15