ZHCSDF1 February 2015 UCD90240
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NOTE
Information in the following applications sections is not part of the TI component specification, and TI does not warrant its accuracy or completeness. TI’s customers are responsible for determining suitability of components for their purposes. Customers should validate and test their design implementation to confirm system functionality.
The UCD90240 can be used to sequence, monitor and margin up to 24 voltage rails. With the cascading feature, up to four UCD90240 devices can manage up to 96 rails and take synchronized fault responses. Typical applications include automatic test equipment, telecommunication and networking equipment, servers and storage systems, and so forth. Device configuration can be performed in Fusion GUI. No coding skill is required.
Figure 32 shows a simplified system diagram. Only three rails are shown for illustration purpose. Each UCD90240 device can manage up to 24 rails.
Decoupling capacitors should be placed as close to the device as possible.
If an application uses the RESETexternal pin, the trace of the RESET signal must be kept as short as possible. Be sure to place any components connected to the RESET signal as close to the UCD90240 as possible.
Fusion GUI can be used to design the device configuration online or offline (with or without a UCD90240 device connected to the computer). In offline mode, Fusion GUI will prompt user to create or open a project file (.xml) at launch. In online mode, Fusion GUI will automatically detect the device on PMBus and extract the configuration data from the device. An USB Interface Adapter EVM (HPA172) from TI is required to connect Fusion GUI to PMBus.
The general design steps include (1) Rail setup, (2) Rail monitoring configuration, (3) GPI configuration, (4) Rail sequence configuration, (5) Fault response configuration, (6) GPO configuration, (7) Margining configuration, (8) Other configurations such as Pin Selected Rail States, Watchdog Timer, System Reset, Sync Clock, Fault Pins, and so on. Details of the steps are described in the Feature Description section, and are self-explanatory in Fusion GUI.
After configuration change(s), the user should click the Write to Hardware button to apply the changes. In online mode, the user can then click the Store RAM to Flash button to permanently store the new configuration into the data flash of the device.