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Date of release: 5 November 2002
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Contents
Philips Semiconductors
PIP401
OR-ing Intelligent Switch
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2
3
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5
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7
7.1
7.2
7.2.1
7.2.2
7.3
7.3.1
7.3.2
7.3.3
7.3.4
7.4
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9
9.1
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11.1
11.2
11.3
11.3.1
11.3.2
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Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ordering information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Pinning information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Functional description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Supply voltage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Voltage drop monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Comparator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Remote sense input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Driver and series power switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Soft turn-on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Low voltage drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Low current operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Fast turn-off with no reverse current. . . . . . . . . 4
Overtemperature flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Limiting values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Thermal characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Transient thermal impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Application information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Parallel redundant operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Fault condition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Overtemperature detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
On-state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Off-state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Package outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Revision history. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Data sheet status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Disclaimers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15