SLASEJ4C April   2017  – February 2023 PGA460

PRODUCTION DATA  

  1. 1 Features
  2. 2 Applications
  3. 3 Description
  4. 4 Revision History
  5. 5 Pin Configuration and Functions
  6. 6 Specifications
    1. 6.1  Absolute Maximum Ratings
    2. 6.2  ESD Ratings
    3. 6.3  Recommended Operating Conditions
    4. 6.4  Thermal Information
    5. 6.5  Internal Supply Regulators Characteristics
    6. 6.6  Transducer Driver Characteristics
    7. 6.7  Transducer Receiver Characteristics
    8. 6.8  Analog to Digital Converter Characteristics
    9. 6.9  Digital Signal Processing Characteristics
    10. 6.10 Temperature Sensor Characteristics
    11. 6.11 High-Voltage I/O Characteristics
    12. 6.12 Digital I/O Characteristics
    13. 6.13 EEPROM Characteristics
    14. 6.14 Timing Requirements
    15. 6.15 Switching Characteristics
    16. 6.16 Typical Characteristics
  7. 7 Detailed Description
    1. 7.1 Overview
    2. 7.2 Functional Block Diagram
    3. 7.3 Feature Description
      1. 7.3.1  Power-Supply Block
      2. 7.3.2  Burst Generation
        1. 7.3.2.1 Using Center-Tap Transformer
        2. 7.3.2.2 Direct Drive
        3. 7.3.2.3 Other Configurations
      3. 7.3.3  Analog Front-End
      4. 7.3.4  Digital Signal Processing
        1. 7.3.4.1 Ultrasonic Echo—Band-Pass Filter
        2. 7.3.4.2 Ultrasonic Echo–Rectifier, Peak Hold, Low-Pass Filter, and Data Selection
        3. 7.3.4.3 Ultrasonic Echo—Nonlinear Scaling
        4. 7.3.4.4 Ultrasonic Echo—Threshold Data Assignment
        5. 7.3.4.5 Digital Gain
      5. 7.3.5  System Diagnostics
        1. 7.3.5.1 Device Internal Diagnostics
      6. 7.3.6  Interface Description
        1. 7.3.6.1 Time-Command Interface
          1. 7.3.6.1.1 RUN Commands
          2. 7.3.6.1.2 CONFIGURATION/STATUS Command
        2. 7.3.6.2 USART Interface
          1. 7.3.6.2.1 USART Asynchronous Mode
            1. 7.3.6.2.1.1 Sync Field
            2. 7.3.6.2.1.2 Command Field
            3. 7.3.6.2.1.3 Data Fields
            4. 7.3.6.2.1.4 Checksum Field
            5. 7.3.6.2.1.5 PGA460 UART Commands
            6. 7.3.6.2.1.6 UART Operations
              1. 7.3.6.2.1.6.1 No-Response Operation
              2. 7.3.6.2.1.6.2 Response Operation (All Except Register Read)
              3. 7.3.6.2.1.6.3 Response Operation (Register Read)
            7. 7.3.6.2.1.7 Diagnostic Field
            8. 7.3.6.2.1.8 USART Synchronous Mode
          2. 7.3.6.2.2 One-Wire UART Interface
          3. 7.3.6.2.3 Ultrasonic Object Detection Through UART Operations
        3. 7.3.6.3 In-System IO-Pin Interface Selection
      7. 7.3.7  Echo Data Dump
        1. 7.3.7.1 On-Board Memory Data Store
        2. 7.3.7.2 Direct Data Burst Through USART Synchronous Mode
      8. 7.3.8  Low-Power Mode
        1. 7.3.8.1 Time-Command Interface
        2. 7.3.8.2 UART Interface
      9. 7.3.9  Transducer Time and Temperature Decoupling
        1. 7.3.9.1 Time Decoupling
        2. 7.3.9.2 Temperature Decoupling
      10. 7.3.10 Memory CRC Calculation
      11. 7.3.11 Temperature Sensor and Temperature Data-Path
      12. 7.3.12 TEST Pin Functionality
    4. 7.4 Device Functional Modes
    5. 7.5 Programming
      1. 7.5.1 UART and USART Communication Examples
    6. 7.6 Register Maps
      1. 7.6.1 EEPROM Programming
      2. 7.6.2 Register Map Partitioning and Default Values
      3. 7.6.3 REGMAP Registers
  8. 8 Application and Implementation
    1. 8.1 Application Information
      1. 8.1.1 Transducer Types
    2. 8.2 Typical Applications
      1. 8.2.1 Transformer-Driven Method
        1. 8.2.1.1 Design Requirements
        2. 8.2.1.2 Detailed Design Procedure
          1. 8.2.1.2.1 Transducer Driving Voltage
          2. 8.2.1.2.2 Transducer Driving Frequency
          3. 8.2.1.2.3 Transducer Pulse Count
          4. 8.2.1.2.4 Transformer Turns Ratio
          5. 8.2.1.2.5 Transformer Saturation Current and Main Voltage Rating
        3. 8.2.1.3 Application Curves
      2. 8.2.2 Direct-Driven (Transformer-Less) Method
        1. 8.2.2.1 Design Requirements
        2. 8.2.2.2 Detailed Design Procedure
        3. 8.2.2.3 Application Curves
    3. 8.3 Power Supply Recommendations
    4. 8.4 Layout
      1. 8.4.1 Layout Guidelines
      2. 8.4.2 Layout Example
  9. 9 Device and Documentation Support
    1. 9.1 Documentation Support
      1. 9.1.1 Related Documentation
    2. 9.2 Receiving Notification of Documentation Updates
    3. 9.3 Support Resources
    4. 9.4 Trademarks
    5. 9.5 Electrostatic Discharge Caution
    6. 9.6 Glossary
  10. 10Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information

3 Description

The PGA460 device is a highly-integrated system on-chip ultrasonic transducer driver and signal conditioner with an advanced DSP core. The device has a complimentary low-side driver pair that can drive a transducer either in a transformer based topology using a step-up transformer or in a direct-drive topology using external high-side FETs. The device can receive and condition the reflected echo signal for reliable object detection. This feature is accomplished using an analog front-end (AFE) consisting of a low-noise amplifier followed by a programmable time-varying gain stage feeding into an ADC. The digitized signal is processed in the DSP core for both near-field and far-field object detection using time-varying thresholds.

The main communication with an external controller is achieved by either a time-command interface (TCI) or a one-wire USART asynchronous interface on the IO pin, or a CMOS-level USART interface on the RXD and TXD pins. The PGA460 can be put in ultra-low quiescent current low-power mode to reduce power consumption when not in use and can be woken up by commands on the communication interfaces.

The PGA460 also includes on-chip system diagnostics which monitor transducer voltage during burst, frequency and decay time of transducer to provide information about the integrity of the excitation as well as supply-side and transceiver-side diagnostics for overvoltage, undervoltage, overcurrent and short-circuit scenarios.

Package Information(1)
PART NUMBERPACKAGEBODY SIZE (NOM)
PGA460TSSOP (16)5.00 mm × 4.40 mm
(1) For all available packages, see the orderable addendum at the end of the data sheet.
GUID-1A8F54E4-D995-4869-BE50-6AC0F67950B2-low.gif Typical Application Diagram (Transformer Drive)