JAJSKJ1A December 2020 – February 2021 TPS929121-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA
The TPS929121-Q1 has pre-thermal warning at typical 135°C and overtemperature shutdown at typical 175°C.
When the junction temperature T(J) of TPS929121-Q1 rises above pre-thermal warning threshold, the device reports pre-thermal warning, pull ERR pin with pulsed current sink for 50 µs and sets the flag registers including FLAG_PRETSD to 1. The master controller must write 1 to CLR_FAULT register to clear FLAG_PRETSD.
When device junction temperature T(J) further rises above overtemperature protection threshold, the device shuts down all output drivers, pulls the ERR pin low with constant current sink, and sets the flag registers including FLAG_TSD and FLAG_ERR to 1. When junction temperature falls below T(TSD) – T(TSD_HYS), the device resumes all outputs and releases ERR pin pulldown. The FLAG_TSD still must be cleared by writing CLR_FAULT to 1.
If the T(J) rises too high above 180oC typically, the TPS929121-Q1 turns off the internal linear regulator to shutdown all the analog and digital circuit. When the T(J) drops below T(TSD) - T(TSD_HYS), the TPS929121-Q1 restarts from POR state with all the registers cleared to default value.
When more accurate thermal measurement on LED unit is required, one current output channel can be sacrificed to provide current bias to external thermal resistor such as PTC or NTC. The voltage of external thermal resistor can be measured by integrated ADC to acquire the temperature information of thermal resistor located area. The master controller can determine actions based on the acquired temperature information to turn off or reduce current output.