STMicroelectronics VND5E025AK-E

Description

The VND5E025AK-E is a double channel highside driver manufactured in the ST proprietary VIPower M0-5 technology and housed in the tiny PowerSSO-24 package. The VND5E025AK-E is designed to drive 12 V automotive grounded loads delivering protection, diagnostics and an easy 3 V and 5 V CMOS compatible interface with any microcontroller.

Features

■ General
– Inrush current active management by power limitation
– Very low standby current
– 3.0 V CMOS compatible inputs
– Optimized electromagnetic emissions
– Very low electromagnetic susceptibility
– In compliance with the 2002/95/EC european directive
– Very low current sense leakage
■ Diagnostic functions
– Proportional load current sense
– High current sense precision for wide currents range
– Current sense disable
– Off-state open- load detection
– Output short to VCC detection
– Overload and short to ground (power limitation) indication
– Thermal shutdown indication
■ Protections
– Undervoltage shutdown
– Overvoltage clamp
– Load current limitation
– Self limiting of fast thermal transients
– Protection against loss of ground and loss of VCC
– Overtemperature shutdown with auto restart (thermal shutdown)
– Reverse battery protected
– Electrostatic discharge protection

Applications

■ All types of resistive, inductive and capacitive loads
■ Suitable as LED driver