High Side Driver 8-Pin SO N T/R

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.

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 V_CC

Overtemperature shutdown with autorestart (thermal shutdown)

Reverse battery protected

Electrostatic discharge protection