SLVSFZ4A December   2020  – February 2021 TPS929121-Q1

PRODUCTION DATA  

  1. 1 Features
  2. 2 Applications
  3. 3 Description
  4. 4 Revision History
  5. 5 Device Comparison Table
  6. 6 Pin Configuration and Functions
  7. 7 Specifications
    1. 7.1 Absolute Maximum Ratings
    2. 7.2 ESD Ratings
    3. 7.3 Recommended Operating Conditions
    4. 7.4 Thermal Information
    5. 7.5 Electrical Characteristics
    6. 7.6 Timing Requirements
    7. 7.7 Typical Characteristics
  8. 8 Detailed Description
    1. 8.1 Overview
    2. 8.2 Functional Block Diagram
    3. 8.3 Feature Description
      1. 8.3.1 Device Bias and Power
        1. 8.3.1.1 Power Supply (SUPPLY)
        2. 8.3.1.2 5-V Low-Drop-Out Linear Regulator (VLDO)
        3. 8.3.1.3 Undervoltage Lockout (UVLO) and Power-On-Reset (POR)
        4. 8.3.1.4 Programmable Low Supply Warning
      2. 8.3.2 Constant Current Output
        1. 8.3.2.1 Reference Current With External Resistor (REF)
        2. 8.3.2.2 64-Step Programmable High-Side Constant-Current Output
      3. 8.3.3 PWM Dimming
        1. 8.3.3.1 PWM Dimming Frequency
        2. 8.3.3.2 PWM Generator
        3. 8.3.3.3 Linear Brightness Control
        4. 8.3.3.4 Exponential Brightness Control
        5. 8.3.3.5 External Clock Input for PWM Generator (CLK)
        6. 8.3.3.6 External PWM Input ( PWM0 and PWM1)
      4. 8.3.4 On-chip 8-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
      5. 8.3.5 Diagnostic and Protection in Normal State
        1. 8.3.5.1  Fault Masking
        2. 8.3.5.2  Supply Undervoltage Lockout Diagnostics in Normal State
        3. 8.3.5.3  Low-Supply Warning Diagnostics in Normal State
        4. 8.3.5.4  Reference Diagnostics in Normal State
        5. 8.3.5.5  Pre-Thermal Warning and Overtemperature Protection in Normal State
        6. 8.3.5.6  Communication Loss Diagnostic in Normal State
        7. 8.3.5.7  LED Open-Circuit Diagnostics in Normal State
        8. 8.3.5.8  LED Short-Circuit Diagnostics in Normal State
        9. 8.3.5.9  On-Demand Off-State Invisible Diagnostics
        10. 8.3.5.10 On-Demand Off-State Single-LED Short-Circuit (SS) Diagnostics
        11. 8.3.5.11 Automatic Single-LED Short-Circuit (AutoSS) Detection in Normal State
        12. 8.3.5.12 EEPROM CRC Error in Normal State
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      6. 8.3.6 Diagnostic and Protection in Fail-Safe States
        1. 8.3.6.1 Fault Masking
        2. 8.3.6.2 Supply UVLO Diagnostics in Fail-Safe States
        3. 8.3.6.3 Low-supply Warning Diagnostics in Fail-Safe states
        4. 8.3.6.4 Reference Diagnostics at Fail-Safe States
        5. 8.3.6.5 Overtemperature Protection in Fail-Safe State
        6. 8.3.6.6 LED Open-circuit Diagnostics in Fail-Safe State
        7. 8.3.6.7 LED Short-circuit Diagnostics in Fail-Safe State
        8. 8.3.6.8 EEPROM CRC Error in Fail-safe State
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    4. 8.4 Device Functional Modes
      1. 8.4.1 POR State
      2. 8.4.2 Initialization State
      3. 8.4.3 Normal State
      4. 8.4.4 Fail-Safe States
      5. 8.4.5 Program State
      6. 8.4.6 Programmable Output Failure State
      7. 8.4.7 ERR Output
      8. 8.4.8 Register Default Data
    5. 8.5 Programming
      1. 8.5.1 FlexWire Protocol
        1. 8.5.1.1 Protocol Overview
        2. 8.5.1.2 UART Interface Address Setting
        3. 8.5.1.3 Status Response
        4. 8.5.1.4 Synchronization Byte
        5. 8.5.1.5 Device Address Byte
        6. 8.5.1.6 Register Address Byte
        7. 8.5.1.7 Data Frame
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        9. 8.5.1.8 CRC Frame
        10. 8.5.1.9 Burst Mode
      2. 8.5.2 Registers Lock
      3. 8.5.3 All Registers CRC Check
      4. 8.5.4 EEPROM Programming
        1. 8.5.4.1 Chip Selection by Pulling REF Pin High
        2. 8.5.4.2 Chip Selection by ADDR Pins configuration
        3. 8.5.4.3 EEPROM Register Access and Burn
        4. 8.5.4.4 EEPROM Program State Exit
        5. 8.5.4.5 Reading Back EEPROM
    6. 8.6 Register Maps
      1. 8.6.1 FullMap Registers
  9. 9 Application and Implementation
    1. 9.1 Application Information
    2. 9.2 Typical Application
      1. 9.2.1 Smart Rear Lamp With Distributed LED drivers
      2. 9.2.2 Design Requirements
      3. 9.2.3 Detailed Design Procedure
      4. 9.2.4 Application Curves
  10. 10Power Supply Recommendations
  11. 11Layout
    1. 11.1 Layout Guidelines
    2. 11.2 Layout Example
  12. 12Device and Documentation Support
    1. 12.1 Receiving Notification of Documentation Updates
    2. 12.2 Support Resources
    3. 12.3 Trademarks
    4. 12.4 Electrostatic Discharge Caution
    5. 12.5 Glossary
  13. 13Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information

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8.3.6.7 LED Short-circuit Diagnostics in Fail-Safe State

The TPS929121-Q1 has internal analog comparators to monitor all channel outputs with respect to a fixed threshold. If the device has detected channel voltage below threshold, it sets FLAG_SHORTCHx accordingly. The FLAG_OUT and FLAG_ERR are set as well.

The short-circuit detection is only enabled during PWM-ON state with programmable minimal pulse width of T(ODPW) + T(SHORT_deg). The T(ODPW) is programmable by register CONF_ODPW. If PWM on-time is less than T(ODPW) + T(SHORT_deg), the device cannot report any short-circuit fault. When the voltage V(OUTx) is below threshold V(SG_th_rising) with duration longer than deglitch timer length of T(ODPW) + T(SHORT_deg), the device turns off the current output on the LED short-circuit channels, pulls the ERR pin down with constant current sink to report fault, and sets flag registers including FLAG_SHORTCHx, FLAG_OUT and FLAG_ERR. If any channel is disabled by CONF_ENCHx to 0, the LED short-circuit diagnostics skip the channel. If one-fails-all-fail protection is enabled by setting EEPROM register EEP_OFAF to 1, all the used output channels are turned off even though the LED short-circuit is only detected on one channel. If one-fails-all-fail protection is disabled by setting EEPROM register EEP_OFAF to 0, only failed channels are turned off.

In fail-safe states, the TPS929121-Q1 retries the failed channel with a low-current retry pulses in every 10 ms. The pulse width T(ODPW) is programmable by CONF_ODPW, and the retry current is set by CONF_ODIOUT. If the retry is succeed, the device turns on the channel current, automatically release the ERR pin and clears the flag registers. If the CONF_DIAGENCHx is set to 0, the short-circuit fault is ignored.

Possible user case:

  1. Supply voltage dip below threshold, triggering false single led short-circuit fault
  2. LED short to ground and recover
  3. LED single LED short and recover
  4. Dutycycle too short to detect
  5. Extra capacitance caused false short-circuit