SLVSHO1 March   2025 TPS1689

ADVANCE INFORMATION  

  1.   1
  2. 1 Features
  3. 2 Applications
  4. 3 Description
  5. 4 Pin Configuration and Functions
  6. 5 Specifications
    1. 5.1  Absolute Maximum Ratings
    2. 5.2  ESD Ratings
    3. 5.3  Recommended Operating Conditions
    4. 5.4  Thermal Information
    5. 5.5  Electrical Characteristics
    6. 5.6  PMBus and GPIO DC Characteristics
    7. 5.7  Telemetry
    8. 5.8  Logic Interface
    9. 5.9  Timing Requirements
    10. 5.10 Typical Characteristics
  7. 6 Detailed Description
    1. 6.1 Overview
    2. 6.2 Functional Block Diagram
    3. 6.3 Feature Description
      1. 6.3.1  Undervoltage Protection
      2. 6.3.2  Insertion Delay
      3. 6.3.3  Overvoltage Protection
      4. 6.3.4  Inrush Current, Overcurrent, and Short-Circuit Protection
        1. 6.3.4.1 Slew rate (dVdt) and Inrush Current Control
          1. 6.3.4.1.1 Start-Up Timeout
        2. 6.3.4.2 Steady-State Overcurrent Protection (Circuit-Breaker)
        3. 6.3.4.3 Active Current Limiting During Start-Up
        4. 6.3.4.4 Short-Circuit Protection
      5. 6.3.5  Analog Load Current Monitor (IMON)
      6. 6.3.6  Overtemperature Protection
      7. 6.3.7  Analog Junction Temperature Monitor (TEMP)
      8. 6.3.8  FET Health Monitoring
      9. 6.3.9  Single Point Failure Mitigation
        1. 6.3.9.1 IMON Pin Single Point Failure
        2. 6.3.9.2 IREF Pin Single Point Failure
      10. 6.3.10 General Purpose Digital Input/Output Pins
        1. 6.3.10.1 Fault Response and Indication (FLT)
        2. 6.3.10.2 Power Good Indication (PG)
        3. 6.3.10.3 Parallel Device Synchronization (SWEN)
      11. 6.3.11 Stacking Multiple eFuses for Unlimited Scalability
        1. 6.3.11.1 Current Balancing During Start-Up
      12. 6.3.12 Quick Output Discharge(QOD)
      13. 6.3.13 Write Protect Feature(WP#)
      14. 6.3.14 PMBus® Digital Interface
        1. 6.3.14.1  PMBus® Device Addressing
        2. 6.3.14.2  SMBus Protocol
        3. 6.3.14.3  SMBus™ Message Formats
        4. 6.3.14.4  Packet Error Checking
        5. 6.3.14.5  Group Commands
        6. 6.3.14.6  SMBus™ Alert Response Address (ARA)
        7. 6.3.14.7  PMBus® Commands
        8. 6.3.14.8  Analog-to-digital Converter
        9. 6.3.14.9  Digital-to-analog Converters
        10. 6.3.14.10 DIRECT format Conversion
        11. 6.3.14.11 Blackbox Fault Recording
    4. 6.4 Device Functional Modes
  8. 7 Application and Implementation
    1. 7.1 Application Information
      1. 7.1.1 Single Device, Standalone Operation
      2. 7.1.2 Single TPS1689 and multiple TPS1685 Devices, Parallel Connection
      3. 7.1.3 Multiple TPS1689 Devices: Parallel Connection With Individual Telemetry
      4. 7.1.4 Multiple Devices, Independent Operation (Multi-zone)
    2. 7.2 Typical Application: 54-V, 2-kW Power Path Protection with PMBus® Interface in Datacenter Servers
      1. 7.2.1 Design Requirements
      2. 7.2.2 Detailed Design Procedure
      3. 7.2.3 Application Performance Plots
    3. 7.3 Power Supply Recommendations
      1. 7.3.1 Transient Protection
      2. 7.3.2 Output Short-Circuit Measurements
    4. 7.4 Layout
      1. 7.4.1 Layout Guidelines
      2. 7.4.2 Layout Example
  9. 8 Application Limitation and Errata
  10. 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
  11. 10Revision History
  12. 11Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information
    1. 11.1 Mechanical Data

Package Options

Mechanical Data (Package|Pins)
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Orderable Information

6.3.8 FET Health Monitoring

The TPS1689 can detect and report certain conditions which are indicative of a failure of the power path FET. If undetected or unreported, these conditions can compromise system performance either by not providing power to the load correctly or the necessary level of protection. After a FET failure is detected, the TPS1689 tries to turn off the internal FET by pulling the gate low and asserts the FLT pin. The specific FET fault type is also reported in the STATUS_MFR_SPECIFIC status register.

  • D-S short: D-S short can result in a constant uncontrolled power delivery path formed from source to load, either due to a board assembly defect or due to internal FET failure. This condition is detected at start-up by checking if VIN-OUT < VDSFLT before the FET is turned ON. If yes, the device engages the internal output discharge to try and discharge the output. If the VOUT doesn’t discharge below VFB within a certain allowed interval, the device asserts the FLT pin and sets the FET_FAULT_DS bit in the STATUS_MFR_SPECIFIC status register.

Note:

There is an option to disable the D-S fault detection digitally by setting the DIS_VDSFLT bit in the DEVICE_CONFIG register. This allows the device start-up into a pre-charged output without triggering the D-S fault.

  • G-D short: The TPS1689 detects this kind of FET failure at all times by checking if the gate voltage is close to VIN even when the internal control logic is trying to hold the FET in OFF condition. If this condition is detected, the device asserts the FLT pin and sets the FET_FAULT_GD bit in the STATUS_MFR_SPECIFIC status register.

  • G-S short: The TPS1689 detects this kind of FET failure during start-up by checking if the FET G-S voltage fails to reach the necessary overdrive voltage within a certain timeout period (tSU_TMR) after the gate driver is turned ON. While in steady-state, if the G-S voltage becomes low before the controller logic has signaled to the gate driver to turn off the FET, it is latched as a fault. If this condition is detected, the device asserts the FLT pin and sets the FET_FAULT_GS bit in the STATUS_MFR_SPECIFIC status register.