GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Isolation improves communication by breaking ground loops and reduces noise where large differences in ground potentials exists between ports. The ±25V receiver input commonmode range exceeds the ISO 11898 specification requirement of -2V to +7V. Additionally, the CANH and CANL IOs are fault tolerant up to ±54V and are protected from electrostatic discharge (ESD) up to ±15kV to GNDB on the bus-side, as specified by the Human Body Model (HBM). Interfacing with CAN-protocol controllers is simplified by the wide 3.0V to 5.5V supply voltage range (VDDA) on the controller-side of the device. The supply voltage range for the CAN bus-side of the device is 4.5V to 5.5V (VDDB). An integrated transformer driver and LDO can be used, with an external transformer, to generate the isolated supply for VDDB. Field installation and troubleshooting are simplified by the polarity select (POL) input. POL swaps the functions of the CANH and CANL IOs, allowing for simple software correction of cross-wired bus cables in the field.