ST VN5E160MSTR-E

The VN5E160MS-E is a single-channel high-side driver manufactured in the ST proprietary VIPower M0-5 technology and housed in the tiny SO-8 package. The VN5E160MS-E is designed to drive 12 V automotive grounded loads delivering protection, diagnostics and easy 3 V and 5 V CMOS compatible interface with any microcontroller. The device integrates advanced protective functions such as load current limitation, inrush and overload active management by power limitation, overtemperature shut-off with auto-restart and overvoltage active clamp. A dedicated analog current sense pin is associated with every output channel in order to provide enhanced diagnostic functions including fast detection of overload and short-circuit to ground through power limitation indication and overtemperature indication. The current sensing and diagnostic feedback of the whole device can be disabled by pulling the CS_DiS pin high to allow sharing of the external sense resistor with other similar devices.

• Inrush current active management by power limitation
• Very low standby current
• 3.0 V CMOS compatible inputs
• Optimized electromagnetic emission
• Very low electromagnetic susceptibility
• In compliance with the 2002/95/EC european directive
• Very low current sense leakage
• Proportional load current sense
• High-precision current sense for wide currents range
• Current sense disable
• Overload and short to ground (power limitation) indication
• Thermal shutdown indication
• Undervoltage shutdown
• Overvoltage clamp
• Load current limitation
• Self-limiting of fast thermal transients
• Protection against loss of ground and loss of VCC
• Overtemperature shutdown with autorestart (thermal shutdown)
• Reverse battery protected
• Electrostatic discharge protection

• All types of resistive, inductive and capacitive loads
• Suitable as LED driver