SLVSF29C October 2019 – August 2021 TPS8804
PRODUCTION DATA
Signals are transmitted to the power line by pulling the line low with a controlled current sink. When the driver is enabled, the microcontroller controls the SLC_TX1 and SLC_TX2 outputs by driving MCU_TX1 and MCU_TX2 high. In Figure 7-6, the SLC_TX2 output driver connects to an external transistor and current-limiting resistor. The current drawn from the power line is shown in Equation 1. The SLC_TX1 output driver is able to pull the line completely low. This configuration allows for multi-level communication.