LTM2889
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APPLICATIONS INFORMATION
The LTM2889 CAN transceiver also features thermal
shutdown protection that disables the driver in case of
excessive power dissipation during a fault on the CAN bus
(see Notes 3 and 4). When the transceiver die temperature
exceeds 170°C (typical), the transmitter is forced into the
recessive state. All other functions remain active during
the transceiver thermal shutdown, including the CAN bus
receiver and the module isolated communication and
power converter. Other chips in the LTM2889 also contain
thermal shutdown circuits that will shut down all module
operations at approximately 170°C.
Power-Up/Down Glitch-Free Outputs
The LTM2889 CAN transceiver employs a supply under-
voltage detection circuit to control the activation of the
circuitry on-chip. During power-up, the CANH, CANL,
RXD and SPLIT outputs remain in the high impedance
state until the supply reaches a voltage sufficient to reli-
ably operate the transceiver. At this point, the transceiver
activates if RS is low.
The receiver output goes active after a short delay tENRX
and reflects the state at the CAN bus pins, and the SPLIT
output goes active at approximately the same time. The
transmitter powers up in the high-Z recessive state until
the VCC2 supply reaches the power-good voltage, at which
time the transmitter outputs become active and reflect
the state of the TXD pin. This assures that the transmit-
ter does not disturb the bus by glitching to the dominant
state during power-up.
During power down, the reverse occurs; the supply un-
dervoltage detection circuit senses low supply voltage
and immediately puts the transceiver into shutdown. The
CANH, CANL, RXD, and SPLIT outputs go to the high
impedance state. The voltage on RXD is pulled high by
an internal pull-up resistor.
Common Mode Voltage vs Supply Voltage
When operating from the default 5V VCC2 supply voltage
the LTM2889 CAN transceiver adheres to the ISO 11898-2
CAN bus standard by maintaining drive levels that are
symmetric around VCC2/2 = 2.5V with respect to GND2.
An internal common mode reference of VCC2/2 is buffered
to supply the termination of the receiver input resistors. A
second buffer with a high voltage tolerant output supplies
VCC2/2 to the SPLIT output.
If the output from the internal isolated converter is set to
3.3V using a resistor divider on the ADJ pin (Figure 10),
the 2.5V nominal common mode voltage specified in the
ISO 11898-2 standard is too close to the 3.3V supply
to provide symmetric drive levels while maintaining the
necessary differential output voltage. To maintain driver
symmetry the common mode reference voltage is lowered
during 3.3V operation. The typical output common mode
voltage is 1.95V in the dominant state. The internal com-
mon mode reference is set to VCC2/2 + 0.3V = 1.95V to
match the dominant state output common mode voltage.
This reference is independently buffered to supply the
termination of the receiver input resistors and the SPLIT
voltage output.
As the LTM2889 CAN transceiver operates over a very
wide common mode range, this small shift of –0.55V in
the common mode when operating from 3.3V does not
degrade data transmission or reception. An LTM2889
CAN transceiver operating at 3.3V may share a bus with
other CAN transceivers operating at 5V. However, the
electromagnetic emissions (EME) may be larger if trans-
ceivers powered by different voltages share a bus, due to
the fluctuation in the common mode voltage from 1.95V
(when a CAN transceiver on a 3.3V supply is dominant) to
2.5V (when a CAN transceiver on a 5V supply is dominant).
RS Pin and Variable Slew Rate Control
The driver features adjustable slew rate for improved EME
performance. The slew rate is set by the amount of cur-
rent that is sourced by the RS pin when it is pulled below
approximately 1.1V (referenced to GND2). This allows the
slew rate to be set by a single slew control resistor RSL
in series with the RS pin (Figure 1).
The relationship between the series slew control resistor
RSL and the transmitter slew rate can be observed in
Figure 13. RSL ≤ 4k is recommended for high data rate
communication. RSL should be less than 200k to ensure
that the RS pin can be reliably pulled below VIL_RS to
enable the chip.