Description

The VND5E025BK-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 VND5E025BK-E is designed to drive 12V automotive grounded loads delivering protection, diagnostics and easy 3V and 5V CMOS compatible interface with any microcontroller.

Features

■ General

– Inrush current active management by power limitation

– Very low standby current

– 3.0V CMOS compatible inputs

■ Diagnostic functions

– High current sense precision for wide currents range

– Current sense ratio drift for single point calibration

– 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 auto restart (thermal shutdown)

– Reverse battery protected

– Electrostatic discharge protection

Applications

■ Especially intended for blinkers

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