STMicroelectronics VNQ5E050AK Evaluation Board EV-VNQ5E050AK EV-VNQ5E050AK Data Sheet

Product codes
EV-VNQ5E050AK
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September 2013
Doc ID 023979 Rev 2
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EV-VNQ5E050AK
VNQ5E050AK evaluation board
Data brief 
 production data
Features
         
Simple single IC application board dedicated 
for VNQ5E050AK-E
Provides thermal heat-sinking for ease of use 
in prototyping
Provides electrical connectivity for easy 
prototyping
Description
EV-VNQ5E050AK provides you an easy way to 
connect ST’s surface mounted VIPower
®
 drivers 
into your existing prototype circuitry. This 
evaluation board comes pre-assembled with 
VNQ5E050AK-E high-side driver. 
The VNQ5E050AK-E is a quad channel 
high-side driver manufactured using ST 
proprietary VIPower M0-5 technology and housed 
in PowerSSO-24 package. The VNQ5E050AK-E 
is designed to drive 12 V automotive grounded 
loads, providing 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 with auto-
restart and overvoltage active clamp. A dedicated 
analog current sense pin is associated with every 
output channel provides enhanced diagnostic 
functions including fast detection of overload and 
short-circuit to ground through power limitation 
indication, overtemperature indication, short-
circuit to V
CC
 diagnosis and ON-state and 
OFF-state open-load detection.
The current sensing and diagnostic feedback of 
the whole device can be disabled by pulling the 
CS_DIS pin high to share the external sense 
resistor with similar devices.
Figure 1.
VNQ5E050AK evaluation board
         
Parameter
Symbol
Value
Unit
Max supply voltage
V
CC
41
V
Operating voltage range
V
CC
4.5 to 28
V
Max On-State resistance
R
ON
50
m
Ω
Current limitation (typ)
I
LIMH
27
A
Off-state supply current
I
S
2 µA
(1)
1.
Typical value with all loads connected.
Table 1.
Device summary
Order code
Reference
EV-VNQ5E050AK
VNQ5E050AK evaluation board