Product overview
Description
The VN5E160MS-E is a single-channel high-side driver manufactured in the ST proprietary VIPower™ M0-5 technology and housed in the tiny SO-8 package. The VN5E160MS-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 withauto-restart and overvoltage active clamp.A dedicated analog current sense pin is associated with every output channel in order to provide enhanced diagnostic functions including fast detection of overload and short-circuit to ground through power limitation indication and overtemperature indication.
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.
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All features
- General
- Inrush current active management by power limitation
- Very low standby current
- 3.0 V CMOS compatible inputs
- Optimized electromagnetic emission
- 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-precision current sense forwide currents range
- Current sense disable
- 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 autorestart (thermal shutdown)
- Reverse battery protected
- Electrostatic discharge protection
- General
