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VN808
Octal High-Side Driver For The Automation Market

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VN808

The VN808 is the first octal single chip high-side driver developed in VIPower M0-3 technology. Both
the control and power stage use N-MOS technology.
VN808 has 8 different channels with single protection and diagnostic functions integrated on a single chip. The VN808 has been developed considering the needs of the industrial process control market.


Features of VN808


High-power capability PowerSO-36;
Vcc/2 compatible inputs;
Junction over-temperature protection;
Case over-temperature protection for thermal
independence of the channel;


Current limitation;
Shorted load protection;
Under-voltage shutdown;
Protection against loss of ground;
Very low stand-by current;
Compliance with 6100-4-4 IEC test up to 4.4kV.
VN808 internal
block diagram

VN808


VN808 Electrical Characteristics


VCC
[V]
VDSS
[V]
RDS(on)
[mOhm]
IOUT
[A]
10.5 to 36
41
8 x 150
0.7

Built-in Self Protection


The VN808 has built-in junction over-temperature protection which is thermally independent for each of the eight channels, it has a current limitation (1.1A typical), and a fast demagnetization block clamped at –52V typical. Thanks to the built-in protection each channel is self-protected against load short-circuiting and overloading. The device is able to manage large inductive loads, however care must be taken of the power

dissipation related to the switching frequency in free-wheeling conditions. Both under-voltage protection and loss of ground protection with shutdown are added. For the very first time a case over-temperature protection is integrated into the VIPower switch. The typical RDS(on) of the VN808 is 150mOhm per channel at 25°C, while the operating voltage is inside the industrial range of 10.5V to 45V.

Case Temperature Detection and Protection


Double integrated thermal protection exists in VN808 in the form of:
Junction temperature detection (TTSD) and protection, related to the single channel;
Case temperature detection (TCSD) and protection, related to the whole device dissipation.
The case temperature protection avoids PCB degradation if a large number of channels are overloaded. In fact the TCSD acts only on the overloaded channel; channels that are not overloaded continue to operate normally.


VN808
VN808 in a typical programmable logic controller application