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UM1556 User manual VIPower M0-5 and M0-5Enhanced high-side drivers Introduction The aim of this document is to give the design engineer a comprehensive “tool kit” to better understand the behavior of VIPower high side switches, allowing easier design and saving time and money. Today’s VIPower high side switches represent the 5th generation of smart power drivers (the so called M0-5). In this latest generation of drivers, all the experience and know-how derived from previous generations have been implemented in order to improve robustness, increase functionality and raise package density while maintaining lower prices. The complexity of a modern High Side Driver (HSD) is still relatively low compared to many other logic ICs. However, the combination of digital logic functions with analog power structures supplied by an unstabilized automotive battery system across a wide temperature range is very challenging for such a device. The M0-5 components today meet all the above criteria, providing an optimal price/performance ratio by offering the highest performance and robustness at excellent prices. September 2013 Doc ID 023520 Rev 2 1/87 www.st.com Contents Contents UM1556 1 General items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.1 Application schematic (monolithic digital, monolithic and hybrid analogue HSD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1...