It looks like schematics for PDCBs are not easily available, at least I was unable to find one to look at when I wanted to. So I ended up tracing a spare board I've got. If you're wandering how these things work, what can and cannot be done, maybe thinking of doing something custom, well, here it is.
Dual-channel buck converter built around U1 provides 5V and 3.3V. This part is pretty much the reference design from ISL6440 datasheet. The 5V channel is always enabled, its output goes to ATX 5VSB. The second channel, 3.3V, shuts down in OFF state by the means of T3. The two switches on the right, Q5 and Q6, cut off ATX 12V and 5V when the board is OFF. ATX 5V is just 5VSB through a switch. ATX 12V is just input voltage through a switch. There's no switch on the 3.3V line, instead T3 shuts down the whole left side of the converter.
ATX -12V is made from 3.3V. I have no idea what's going on there but I guess it's got to be some sort of charge pump or something. Anyway, no 3.3V means no -12V output.
The second chip, U2, monitors ATX PS_ON input, provides ATX PG (power good) output, and controls the cut-off for 12V, 5V and 3.3V. FPOB is the control line that shuts down all non-5VSB ATX outputs.
Nearly half the parts on the back side of the board are there only to implement the OFF state. If PSON is wired externally to shut down the 12V supply, and there's an external source of 5VSB, the board can be reduced to basically ISL6440-based converter wired according to datasheet. ISL6440 is capable of producing PG output itself, doesn't need a supervisor chip.
Note all Ts are three-pin SOT-23s with no useful markings on them. T3, T5, T6 are just some small transistors, probably. Most likely not JFETs, that's just a convenient symbol. T2 is probably a dual Schottky diode like T4, probably to protect U2 from reverse polarity input. T4 sits right where there datasheet calls for a pair of diodes, that's how I know what it is.
Datasheet for ISL6440: https://www.renesas.com/eu/en/www/doc/datasheet/isl6440.pdf
Datasheet for WT751002: http://datalinker.com.hk/uploads/spec/WT751002S_v1.00.pdf
Dual-channel buck converter built around U1 provides 5V and 3.3V. This part is pretty much the reference design from ISL6440 datasheet. The 5V channel is always enabled, its output goes to ATX 5VSB. The second channel, 3.3V, shuts down in OFF state by the means of T3. The two switches on the right, Q5 and Q6, cut off ATX 12V and 5V when the board is OFF. ATX 5V is just 5VSB through a switch. ATX 12V is just input voltage through a switch. There's no switch on the 3.3V line, instead T3 shuts down the whole left side of the converter.
ATX -12V is made from 3.3V. I have no idea what's going on there but I guess it's got to be some sort of charge pump or something. Anyway, no 3.3V means no -12V output.
The second chip, U2, monitors ATX PS_ON input, provides ATX PG (power good) output, and controls the cut-off for 12V, 5V and 3.3V. FPOB is the control line that shuts down all non-5VSB ATX outputs.
Nearly half the parts on the back side of the board are there only to implement the OFF state. If PSON is wired externally to shut down the 12V supply, and there's an external source of 5VSB, the board can be reduced to basically ISL6440-based converter wired according to datasheet. ISL6440 is capable of producing PG output itself, doesn't need a supervisor chip.
Note all Ts are three-pin SOT-23s with no useful markings on them. T3, T5, T6 are just some small transistors, probably. Most likely not JFETs, that's just a convenient symbol. T2 is probably a dual Schottky diode like T4, probably to protect U2 from reverse polarity input. T4 sits right where there datasheet calls for a pair of diodes, that's how I know what it is.
Datasheet for ISL6440: https://www.renesas.com/eu/en/www/doc/datasheet/isl6440.pdf
Datasheet for WT751002: http://datalinker.com.hk/uploads/spec/WT751002S_v1.00.pdf
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