
CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION
The L9346 is a quad low side driver for inductive
loads like valves in automotive environment. The
internal pull down current sources
ABLE and INPUT pins assure in case of open in-
put conditions that the device is switched off. An
output voltage slope limitation for du/dt is imple-
mented to reduce the EMI. An integrated active
flyback voltage limitation clamps the output volt-
age duringthe flybackphase to 50 V.
Each driver is protected against short circuit at
V
OUT
< 32V and thermal overload. In short circuit
condition the output will be disabled after a short
delay time t
DOL
. The thermal disable for TJ >
180
°
C of the output will be reseted if the junction
temperaturedecreasesabout 20
°
Cbelow the dis-
able thresholdtemperature.
TheovertemperatureinformationisstoreduntilIN=L.
For the real time error diagnosis the voltage and
the current of the outputs are compared with in-
ternal fixed values V
OUV
for OFF and I
OUC
for ON
conditions to recognize open load (R
L
≥
20 K
,
R
L
> 38
) in OFFand ON conditions.
Also the output voltages V
O1
- 4 are compared to
each other output in OFF condition with a fixed
at the EN-
offset of
V
OUV
to recognize load bypasses. To
suppress the
V
OUV
diagnoses during the flyback
phases of the comparedoutput, the
VOUVdiag-
nostic includesa latch function.
Reaching the flyback clamping voltage V
OCL
the
diagnostic signal is reseted by a latch. To activate
again this kind of diagnostic a low signal at the
correspondent INPUT or the ENABLE pin must
be applied (see also Fig.3). The outputs 1 and 4
are comparedfor
V
OUV
and also outputs2 and 3
are compared.
The diagnosticoutput level in connection with dif-
ferent ENABLE and INPUT conditions allows to
recognize different fail states,like overtemp,short
to V
SS
, short to GND, bypass to GND and
connectedload (see diagnostictable).
The diagnosticoutput is protected against short
circuit. Exceeding the over load current threshold
I
OOC
, the output current will be limited internally
during the diagnostic overload delay switch-off
time t
DOL
.
The device complies the ISO pulses imposed to
the supply voltage of the valves without any fail-
ures of the functionality.
dis-
5V
t
t
5V
t
5A
3A
IN
V
IO
IOOL
IOUC
D
V
tDOL
Figure 3. Diagnostic OverloadDelay Time
L9346
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