VN5E016AHTR-E

The VN5E016AH-E is a single channel high-side driver manufactured in the ST proprietary VIPower M0-5 technology and housed in the tiny HPak package. The VN5E016AH-E is designed to drive 12 V automotive grounded loads delivering protection, diagnostics and easy 3 V and 5 V CMOS compatible interface with any microcontroller. The device integrates advanced protective functions such as load current limitation, inrush and overload active management by power limitation, overtemperature shut-off with auto restart and overvoltage active clamp. A dedicated analog current sense pin is associated with every output channel to provide enhanced diagnostic functions. These functions include fast detection of overload and short-circuit to ground through power limitation indication, overtemperature indication, short-circuit to VCC diagnosis and ON-state and OFF-state open-load detection. The current sensing and diagnostic feedback of the whole device can be disabled by pulling the CS_DIS pin high to allow sharing of the external sense resistor with other similar devices.

Applications

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

Key features

• 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
• Proportional load current sense
• High current sense precision for wide current range
• Current sense disable
• Off-state open-load detection
• Output short to VCC indication
• Overload and short to ground (power limitation) indication
• Thermal shutdown indication
• 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