Intelligent switches with SPI interface for automotive applications
with digital current sense feedback
Achieving precise control, enhanced diagnostics, and increased efficiency
The VIPower M0-9 high-side switches featuring a 24-bit SPI interface are purpose-built to support the evolving zonal architectures of smart vehicles, ensuring seamless integration into next-generation automotive designs.
These devices provide a suite of advanced features, including:
Flexible control & programming
Robust protection
Accurate current sensing
Real-time diagnostics via SPI
These intelligent fully programmable switches are ideally suited for applications such as:
Zonal electronic control units (ECUs)
Body control modules (BCMs)
Lighting
Reduce design times with full development ecosystem
ST offers a wide range of support tools to ensure that engineers can rapidly develop the best solutions for their applications.
Explore our comprehensive ecosystem designed to simplify and accelerate your development process.
Evaluation kit
Low-cost evaluation boards for quick prototyping
Low-cost evaluation boards for quick prototyping
Easyboards are simple, low-cost evaluation tools that wire a VIPower product to a load, allowing for straightforward evaluation of the device and all application functions, including auto-protection capabilities under hazardous conditions. They provide:
- Real-time monitoring
- A flexible application environment
Generic motherboard based on an SPC582B automotive microcontroller with integrated GUI
Generic motherboard based on an SPC582B automotive microcontroller with integrated GUI
The backbone of the development environment, the SPC582B evaluation board includes dedicated connectors for VIPower M0-9 Easyboards and is Arduino compatible.
To streamline your evaluation and development process, we offer
- Free ready-to-run application firmware examples
- a dedicated user-friendly graphical user interface (STSW-EV-M09SPI)
- and a comprehensive user manual
are also available to facilitate accelerate your evaluation and development process.
Simulation tool
TwisterSIM: dynamic electro-thermal simulator for devices in VIPower technology
TwisterSIM: dynamic electro-thermal simulator for devices in VIPower technology
TwisterSIM is an innovative electro-thermal simulator that helps shorten the design solution cycle by enabling complex engineering evaluation. It provides:
- accurate electro-thermal simulations
- interactive device selector
- comprehensive simulation results
- wide device support
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