STMicroelectronics VNQ5E160K Evaluation Board EV-VNQ5E160K EV-VNQ5E160K Data Sheet

Product codes
EV-VNQ5E160K
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September 2013
Doc ID 023996 Rev 2
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EV-VNQ5E160K
VNQ5E160K evaluation board
Data brief 
 production data
Features
         
Simple single IC application board dedicated 
for VNQ5E160K-E
Provides thermal heat-sinking for ease of use 
in prototyping
Provides electrical connectivity for easy 
prototyping
Description
EV-VNQ5E160K 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 
VNQ5E160K-E high-side driver. 
The VNQ5E160K-E is a quad channel 
high-side driver manufactured using ST 
proprietary VIPower M0-5 technology and housed 
in PowerSSO-24 package. The VNQ5E160K-E is 
designed to drive 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 
active low digital status pin is associated with 
every output channel that provides enhanced 
diagnostic functions including fast detection of 
overload and short-circuit to ground, 
overtemperature indication, short-circuit to V
CC
 
diagnosis and ON-state and OFF-state open-load 
detection.
The diagnostic feedback of the whole device can 
be disabled by pulling the STAT_DIS pin up, thus 
allowing wired-ORing with similar devices.
Figure 1.
VNQ5E160K evaluation board
         
Parameter
Symbol
Value
Unit
Max transient supply 
voltage
V
CC
41
V
Operating voltage range
V
CC
4.5 to 28
V
Max On-State resistance
R
ON
160
m
Ω
Current limitation (typ)
I
LIMH
10
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-VNQ5E160K
VNQ5E160K evaluation board