ZHCSI09S June 2010 – August 2018 TPS65911
PRODUCTION DATA.
A thermal protection module monitors the junction temperature of the device versus two thresholds:
When the hot-die temperature threshold is reached, an interrupt is sent to software to close the noncritical running tasks.
When the thermal shutdown temperature threshold is reached, the TPS65911 device is set under reset and a transition to OFF state is initiated. Then the POWER ON enable conditions of the device are not considered until the die temperature has decreased below the hot-die threshold. Hysteresis is applied to the hot-die and shutdown thresholds, when detecting a falling edge of temperature, and both detections are debounced to avoid any parasitic detection.
The TPS65911 device allows programming of four hot-die temperature thresholds to increase the flexibility of the system.
By default, the thermal protection is enabled in ACTIVE state, but can be disabled through programming the THERM_REG register. The thermal protection can be enabled in SLEEP state programming the SLEEP_KEEP_RES_ON register. The thermal protection is automatically enabled during an OFF-to-ACTIVE state transition and is kept enabled in OFF state after a switch-off sequence caused by a thermal shutdown event. Transition to OFF state sequence caused by a thermal shutdown event is highlighted in the INT_STS_REG status register. Recovery from this OFF state is initiated (switch-on sequence) when the die temperature falls below the hot-die temperature threshold.
Hot-die and thermal shutdown temperature threshold detection states can be monitored or masked by reading or programming the THERM_REG register. The hot-die interrupt can be masked by programming the INT_MSK_REG register.