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Power Down

The power down pin is internally connected to a CMOS stage which must be driven to a minimum of 2.1V to

ensure proper high logic.

Figure 79. Simplified Power Down Internal Circuit

If 1.8V logic is used to drive the pin, a shoot through current of up to 100µA may develop in the digital logic

causing the overall quiescent current to exceed the 2uA of maximum disabled quiescent current specified in the

electrical characteristics.

In order to properly interface to 1.8V logic with minimal increase in additional current draw, a logic-level translator

like the SN74AVC1T45 can be used.

Alternatively, the same function may be achieved using a diode and pull up resistor shown below.

Figure 80. THS4532 Power Down Interface to 1.8V Logic Microcontroller

The voltage seen at the power down pin will be a function of the supply voltage, input logic level, and diode drop.

As long as the diode is forward biased, the power down voltage will be determined by:

(3)

Where VL is the logic level voltage and Vf is the forward voltage drop across the diode.

This means for 1.8V logic, the forward voltage of the diode should be greater than 0.3V but less than 0.7V in

order to keep the power down logic level above 2.1V and less than 0.7V respectively.

For example, if we select 1N914 as the diode with a forward voltage of approximately 0.4V, the translated logic

voltages will be 0.4V for disabled operation and 2.2V for enabled operation.

The additional current draw can be determined by:

(4)

This equation shows that larger values of RPU result in a smaller additional current. A reasonable value of RPU

may be 500k

Ω where we can expect to see an additional current draw of 5.2µA while the device is in operation

and 1.6µA when disabled.

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