TIDU470A September   2014  – January 2026

 

  1.   1
  2.   Description
  3.   Resources
  4.   Features
  5.   Applications
  6.   6
  7. Key System Specifications
  8. System Description
  9. Block Diagram
    1. 3.1 Highlighted Products
      1. 3.1.1 DRV81646
      2. 3.1.2 ISO6441 and ISO6421
      3. 3.1.3 LM5009
      4. 3.1.4 TLC5927
  10. System Design Theory
    1. 4.1 Low-Side Driver Selection
    2. 4.2 Thermal Management
    3. 4.3 Switch Off an Inductive Load
    4. 4.4 Switching Light Bulbs
  11. Getting Started Hardware
    1. 5.1 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
    2. 5.2 Fault Signal
    3. 5.3 Power Supply
    4. 5.4 Output and Field Power Connector
  12. Getting Started Firmware
    1. 6.1 Data Bits
    2. 6.2 GPIO for SPI
  13. Test Setup
    1. 7.1 Output Current Capability
    2. 7.2 Rise and Fall Times, Propagation Delay
  14. Test Data
  15. Design Files
    1. 9.1 Schematics
    2. 9.2 Bill of Materials
    3. 9.3 PCB Layout
      1. 9.3.1 Layer Plots
      2. 9.3.2 Layout Recommendations
    4. 9.4 Altium Project
    5. 9.5 Gerber Files
    6. 9.6 Assembly Drawings
    7. 9.7 Software Files
  16. 10References
  17. 11About the Author
  18. 12Revision History

Highlighted Products

The TIDA-00236 has eight digital outputs configured as low-side drivers. The design uses two DRV81646 with four protected low-side drivers integrated in each device. The on-chip shift register control logic makes it possible to control the output through SPI and also daisy chain multiple devices (in this case, two). Compared to a paralleled control approach, this saves isolation channels as one SPI channel (four lines) can control eight output channels or more. The ISO6441 provides galvanic isolation for the SPI channel. Each DRV81646 also has a global fault pin, which indicates fault on any of the four output channels. Those signals are connected to the ISO6421, which galvanic isolates the signal. LM5009 is used in a low-cost buck configuration to provide 5V to power the secondary side of the ISO6441 and ISO6421. The 5V is also used for the TLC5927 including LEDs. The LED lighting driver TLC5927 drives to two programmable status LEDs per output, 16 in total. An additional eight status LEDs are connected to the outputs of the DRV81646 and indicates the physical status of the output. The LM2936 is a low-cost low dropout (LDO) to supply the primary side of the ISO6441 and ISO6421 with 3.3V.