SBASAB2A February 2022 – July 2022 AMC23C12
PRODUCTION DATA
Industrial motor drive systems commonly deploy an active or passive rectifier stage to generate a high-voltage, DC link potential from a single- or three-phase AC line input. The DC link voltage is sensed by an isolated amplifier such as the AMC1311B for control purposes. Power stages connected to the DC link rail may be sensitive to overvoltage conditions that can occur (for example, during a braking operation). The isolated amplifier may not be able to alert the system controller fast enough to take appropriate action to reduce the DC link voltage (for example, by turning on the break resistor) in case of an overvoltage condition. Therefore, a fast, isolated comparator is required to detect overvoltage conditions.
Figure 8-2 shows an active rectifier stage where the DC link voltage is sensed by an AMC1311B isolated amplifier. The AMC23C12 is connected parallel to the AMC1311B and monitors the voltage across RSNS for overvoltage conditions. The overvoltage trip-threshold is set by the R1 resistor connected to the REF pin of the AMC23C12. The open-drain OUT pin of the AMC23C12 is connected to a GPIO or interrupt pin of the MCU and is actively pulled low whenever the input voltage (VIN) exceeds the reference voltage (VREF).