SCES833B November 2011 – April 2016 TXS0206A
PRODUCTION DATA.
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Systems engineers working with SD and MMC memory cards face a dilemma. These cards operate at a higher voltage node than the latest multimedia application processors, which have moved to smaller process technology nodes that support a maximum I/O interface voltage of 1.2 V. The problem is bridging the gap between these two voltage nodes while maintaining digital switching compatibility. The TXS0206A was designed specifically to address this. It is an auto direction sensing voltage level shifter that can interface with high speed SD and MMC cards because it supports a clock frequency of up to 60 MHz and each data channel supports up to 60 Mbps.
For this design example, use the parameters listed in Table 2
PARAMETERS | VALUES |
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Input voltage | 1.1 V to 3.6 V |
Output voltage | 1.1 V to 3.6 V |
To begin the design process, determine the following:
When using the TXS0206A device with MMCs, SD, and Memory Stick™ to ensure that a valid receiver input voltage high (VIH) is achieved, the value of any pulldown resistors (external or internal to a memory card) must not be smaller than a 10-kΩ value. The impact of adding too heavy (less than 10-kΩ value) a pulldown resistor to the data and command lines of the TXS0206A device and the resulting 4-kΩ pullup / 10-kΩ pulldown voltage divider network has a direct impact on the VIH of the signal being sent into the memory card and its associated logic.
The resulting VIH voltage for the 10-kΩ pulldown resistor value would be:
VCC × 10 kΩ / (10 kΩ+ 4 kΩ) = 0.714 × VCC
This is marginally above a valid input high voltage for a 1.8-V signal (i.e., 0.65 × VCC).
The resulting VIH voltage for 20-kΩ pulldown resistor value would be:
VCC × 20 kΩ / (20 kΩ + 4 kΩ) = 0.833 × VCC
Which is above the valid input high voltage for a 1.8-V signal of 0.65 × VCC.