ADM1064
INPUT COMPARATOR HYSTERESIS
The UV and OV comparators shown in Figure 19 are always
looking at VPn. To avoid chattering (multiple transitions when
the input is very close to the set threshold level), these compara-
tors have digitally programmable hysteresis. The hysteresis can
be programmed up to the values shown in Table 5.
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The hysteresis is added after a supply voltage goes out of
tolerance. Therefore, the user can program how much above the
UV threshold the input must rise again before a UV fault is
deasserted. Similarly, the user can program how much below the
OV threshold an input must fall again before an OV fault is
deasserted.
The hysteresis figure is given by
V
HYST
=
V
R
×
N
THRESH
/255
where:
V
HYST
is the desired hysteresis voltage.
N
THRESH
is the decimal value of the 5-bit hysteresis code.
Note that
N
THRESH
has a maximum value of 31. The maximum
hysteresis for the ranges is listed in Table 5.
INPUT GLITCH FILTERING
The final stage of the SFDs is a glitch filter. This block provides
time-domain filtering on the output of the SFD comparators.
This allows the user to remove any spurious transitions such as
supply bounce at turn-on. The glitch filter function is additional
to the digitally programmable hysteresis of the SFD compara-
tors. The glitch filter timeout is programmable up to 100 μs.
For example, when the glitch filter timeout is 100 μs, any pulses
appearing on the input of the glitch filter block that are less than
100 μs in duration are prevented from appearing on the output
of the glitch filter block. Any input pulse that is longer than
100 μs does appear on the output of the glitch filter block. The
output is delayed with respect to the input by 100 μs. The
filtering process is shown in Figure 20.
0
T
0
T
GF
T
0
T
GF
T
0
T
GF
T
0
T
GF
INPUT
INPUT PULSE SHORTER
THAN GLITCH FILTER TIMEOUT
INPUT PULSE LONGER
THAN GLITCH FILTER TIMEOUT
OUTPUT
PROGRAMMED
TIMEOUT
PROGRAMMED
TIMEOUT
INPUT
OUTPUT
Figure 20. Input Glitch Filter Function
SUPPLY SUPERVISION WITH VXn INPUTS
The VXn inputs have two functions. They can be used as either
supply fault detectors or digital logic inputs. When selected as
an analog (SFD) input, the VXn pins have very similar func-
tionality to the VH and VPn pins. The major difference is that
the VXn pins have only one input range: 0.573 V to 1.375 V.
Therefore, these inputs can directly supervise only the very low
supplies. However, the input impedance of the VXn pins is high,
allowing an external resistor divide network to be connected to
the pin. Thus, any supply can be potentially divided down into
the input range of the VXn pin and supervised. This enables the
ADM1064 to monitor other supplies such as +24 V, +48 V, and
5 V.
An additional supply supervision function is available when the
VXn pins are selected as digital inputs. In this case, the analog
function is available as a second detector on each of the dedi-
cated analog inputs, VP1–4 and VH. The analog function of
VX1 is mapped to VP1, VX2 is mapped to VP2, and so on. VX5
is mapped to VH. In this case, these SFDs can be viewed as a
secondary or warning SFD.
The secondary SFDs are fixed to the same input range as the
primary SFD. They are used to indicate warning levels rather
than failure levels. This allows faults and warnings to be gener-
ated on a single supply using only one pin. For example, if VP1
is set to output a fault if a 3.3 V supply droops to 3.0 V, VX1 can
be set to output a warning at 3.1 V. Warning outputs are available
for readback from the status registers. They are also OR’ed
together and fed into the sequencing engine (SE), allowing
warnings to generate interrupts on the PDOs. Therefore, in the
example above, if the supply droops to 3.1 V, a warning is
generated, and remedial action can be taken before the supply
drops out of tolerance.