The example below shows a TPS389004-Q1
monitoring four voltage supply rails on the TPS389006Q1EVM. Please follow the steps in Section 4.1.1 and Section 4.1.2 before evaluating the TPS389004-Q1. In this example, the TPS389006Q1EVM is set up to
monitor several power supply rails after the ACT pin is asserted. Below, Figure 4-16 shows how the TPS389006Q1EVM was setup to monitor four voltage supply rails.
- Connect the TPS389006Q1EVM VDD and VAUX
inputs to a 3.3V external power supply. Note that the voltage and current limits of the
power supply must be set at 3.3V and 10mA.
- Connect the TPS389006Q1EVM with TI's
USB2GPIO USB Interface Adapter ribbon to J18 (USB2GPIO connector). Connect the
USB plug from the USB Interface Adapter to the USB port of the computer. The TI USB
Interface Adapter communicates to the TPS389004-Q1 IC via I2C protocols.
- Verify that the jumper settings,
highlighted in red in Figure 4-16, are set on the TPS389006Q1EVM.
- Ground turret (MON7/RS_1/2).
- Apply 0.8V to MON1, 1.0V to MON2, 1.8V to
MON3, 3.3V to MON4 to the turrets of TPS389006Q1EVM.
- Final Connections must look similar to
Figure 4-16.
- Open up the Fusion Digital Power Designer
GUI on the computer and follow Section 4.2.
- Once the EVM is discovered and Click
to Configure has been selected, the GUI is similar to Figure 4-13, Figure 4-14, Figure 4-15.
- Scroll to the bottom of the Interrupt
Enable sub-window and enable all four monitoring inputs by clicking the empty boxes.
The GUI image, Figure 4-17 below, shows all the monitoring inputs being selected in the highlighted
black-box.
- In the Voltage Range and Threshold
sub-window, enter the undervoltage (UV) and overvoltage (OV) threshold values for the
monitoring inputs. One thing to note, any monitoring inputs that are higher than 1.5V
needs to select 4x in the Voltage Scaling (1Fh) field. The GUI image below,
highlighted by a yellow-box, shows is described above.
- Once steps 9 and 10 are completed, press
Write to Hardware and the USB Interface Adapter communicates to the TPS389004-Q1
IC. Next, press Start Polling and both the Telemetry (shown in the highlighted
orange-box) and the graphical waveform of the monitored inputs (shown in the highlighted
red-box) is shown in the GUI.
- If one of the monitored inputs senses a
fault, then an interrupt indicator is displayed (illumination of a red LED) on the
TPS389006Q1EVM. Also, one of the bit registers found in the Status Registers
sub-window, highlighted in the green-box, also shows a fault in red color.
- To clear the fault interrupt, press
Stop Polling, go to the Status Registers sub-window, locate the red color
fault interrupt and click on CLR. Then click on Write to Hardware. This
procedure clears the fault interrupt and allows the device to continue to monitor the
input channels.
- Steps 8 through 13 refers to Figure 4-17 below.