VN771P Datasheet | STMicroelectronics

DESCRIPTION The VN771P is a device formed by three monolithic chips housed in a standard SO28 package: a double high side and two low side switches. Both the double high side and low side switches are made using STMicroelectronics VIPower technology. This device is suitable to drive a DC motor in a bridge configuration as well as to be used as a quad switch for any low voltage application. The dual high side switches have built-in thermal shut-down to protect the chip from over temperature and short circuit, status output to provide indication for open load in off and on state, overtemperature conditions and stuck-on to VCC. The low side switches are two OMNIFET types (fully autoprotected Power MOSFET in VIPower™ technology). They have built-in thermal shut-down, linear current limitation and overvoltage clamping. Fault feedback for thermal intervention can be detected by monitoring the voltage at the input pin. DUAL HIGH-SIDE SWITCH From the falling edge of the input signal, the status output, initially low to signal a fault condition (overtemperature or open load on-state), will go back to a high state with a different delay in case of overtemperature (tpovl) and in case of open open load (tpol) respectively. This feature allows to discriminate the nature of the detected fault. To protect the device against September 1998 SO-28 short circuit and over current condition, the thermal protection turns the integrated Power MOS off at a minimum junction temperature of 140 o C. When this temperature returns to 125 o C the switch is automatically turned on again. In short circuit the protection reacts with virtually no delay, the sensor (one for each channel) being located inside each of the two Power MOS areas. This positioning allows the device to operate with one channel in automatic thermal cycling and the other one on a normal load. An internal function of the devices ensures the fast demagnetization of inductive loads with a typical voltage (Vdemag) of -18V. This...