JAJSES0 February 2018 XTR305
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In voltage output mode (M1 and M2 are connected low or left unconnected), the feedback loop through the IA provides high impedance remote sensing of the voltage at the destination, compensating the resistance of a protection circuit, switches, wiring, and connector resistance. The output of the IA is a current that is proportional to the input voltage. This current is internally routed to the OPA summing junction through a multiplexer, as shown in Figure 41.
A 1:10 copy of the output current of the OPA can be monitored at the IMON pin. This output current and the known output voltage can be used to calculate the load resistance or load power.
During an output short-circuit or an overcurrent condition the XTR305 output current is limited and EFLD (load error, active low) flag is activated.
Applications not requiring the remote sense feature can use the OPA in stand-alone operation (M1 = high). In this case, the IA is available as a separate input channel.
The IA gain can be set by two resistors, RGAIN and RSET (Equation 1):
or when adding an offset, VREF, to get bidirectional output with a single-ended input shown in Equation 2:
The RSET resistor is also used in current output mode. Therefore, it is useful to define RSET for the current mode, then set the ratio between current and voltage span with RGAIN.