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L4987CPT No Pop-up Voltage Regulator

 
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No more external circuits to avoid radio noise while starting the car: just a single chip solution!
A welcome end to annoying car radio speaker noise during crank up has arrived. When a car is started, noise is sometimes emitted by the speakers during a lowering of the battery charge, a phenomenon called “Pop-Up”, that car radio designers are all too familiar with. From the new generation of regulators, the L4987CPT is the device that brings a solution to the market. This low battery charge causes the input voltage to be too low and the pass transistor to be in saturation state.
Under these conditions, the regulator SVR is weak, thus causing noise in the audio system with the use of previous devices. The output flag can be used to mute the final audio amplifiers, or to reset the microprocessor.

Smart Single Chip Solution

Unlike similar devices, the L4987CPT is able to directly monitor the power status without an internal or external voltage divider for Vin or Vout comparison. This results in a low cost highly compact solution.

The Versatile Solution

The same concept can be applied to all battery powered products to monitor the battery state and provide an early warning against low battery charge. Computer sound cards during computer start-up, experience the same phenomenon as car radio speakers, making these devices ideal for multimedia applications.

Main Features

Dropout control fag
Very low drop (0.3V typ)
Output voltage = 8.7V
(5V, 8V, 8.5V, 12V available on request)
Output current up to 200mA
Logic controlled electronic shutdown
Very low quiescent current
(off mode: 90µA typ on mode: 500µA typ)
Internal current and thermal limit
2% accuracy of the output voltage (@ Tj=25°C)

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