Applying voltage to the output pin of STMPS2171STR

[MOliv.1]

Hi,

Currently, I have two boards that contain a 5 volt power supply. Due to flexibility for future projects, both of are powering the same pin on a connector. The STMPS2171STR was added to one of the boards to cut the voltage going to the connector.

However, during bring up I checked the impedance of the output pin of the STMPS2171 to ground and it was high, this matched the datasheet. Once the board was powered on (enable off), I noticed that I had current flowing into the STMPS2171STR , when measured and it was roughly 10mA. I decided to recheck the resistance to ground and surprisingly enough I had 1kOhm to ground. I turned off my power supply and the impedance stayed roughly the same. This behavior goes against what section 3.4 of the datasheet.

I have a few questions about this component.

I am using this IC correctly?

I tested a total of 3 different boards, and all of them display a similar behavior. However, the boards were build by hand, How resistant to heat are those ICs?

The datasheet states that this device is 8kV ESD rated, is this correct?

some more information:

The IC used on the other board supplying the 5V is the LMR34206FSC5RNXRQ1

Thank you,

Matheus Oliveira

[Peter BENSCH]

Please provide a schematic of your setup to make sure we understand it correctly.

Regards

/Peter

[MOliv.1]

[Peter BENSCH]

It looks like you want to connect either +5VDC_UNSWITCHED or +5VDC_SWITCHED to 5VDC, right?

To achieve this, it is probably better to use an STMPS2171 and, in addition, an STMPS2161:

• both OUT pins connected to 5VDC
• both EN pins connected together
• maybe both /FAULT pins connected together (Wired OR)
• the respective IN pins connected to either +5VDC_UNSWITCHED and +5VDC_SWITCHED

The STMPS2161 uses an inverted EN signal, so if you set EN to either Low or High, one of the input voltages will be selected.

Does it answer your question?

/Peter

[MOliv.1]

They are in separate PCBs. I tried using MS paint to separate on the picture, but I think I failed that and I apologize for that.

My goal is to be able to connect the PCB A (inside the red rectangle) to different PCBs. On this scenario both PCBs had a 5V power supply. I wanted to use the 2171 to separate the 5V unswitched from the 5VDC. At the moment the PCB inside the yellow box cannot be modified.

Do you recommend adding a diode on the PCB A (red box) to block the reverse current? I was under the impression from section 3.4 that the output pin would be able to handle this application. PCB A is pretty tight already, and adding more complexities would be challenging.

If the part cannot handle the voltage on the output pin, can I just use a diode on that pin and compensate for the diode drop?

And thank you for the quick response!

[Peter BENSCH]

Sometimes it is not easy to follow the thoughts when the parameters of the given environment are not fully known or visible. In your case, it is an overview of which voltage (+5VDC_SWITCHED, 24VDC) is present and when.

But anyway - the STMPS21x1 are primarily designed as a power switch and blocks reverse current under certain conditions - but not all. What I can see so far you really need a full separation of the voltages (+5VDC_SWITCHED, 5VDC), which can be achieved using:

• two STMPS21x1, as mentioned before
• diodes (preferably Schottky) from each of the voltages towards the load, which includes losses due to voltage drop
• 2 p-channel logic level MOSFETs connected anti serial (see example attached)

Does it answer your question now?

/Peter

[MOliv.1]

Yes it does answer my question.

Thank you for your time!

Mat. O.