PCA9546APW-T - NXP Semiconductors / Philips Semiconductors

1. General description

The PCA9546A is a quad bidirectional translating switch controlled via the I2C-bus. The

SCL/SDA upstream pair fans out to four downstream pairs, or channels. Any individual

SCx/SDx channel or combination of channels can be selected, determined by the

contents of the programmable control register.

An active LOW reset input allows the PCA9546A to recover from a situation where one of

the downstream I2C-buses is stuck in a LOW state. Pulling the RESET pin LOW resets the

I2C-bus state machine and causes all the channels to be deselected as does the internal

Power-On Reset (POR) function.

The pass gates of the switches are constructed such that the VDD pin can be used to limit

the maximum high voltage which will be passed by the PCA9546A. This allows the use of

different bus voltages on each pair, so that 1.8 V or 2.5 V or 3.3 V parts can communicate

with 5 V parts without any additional protection. External pull-up resistors pull the bus up

to the desired voltage level for each channel. All I/O pins are 5 V tolerant.

2. Features

n1-of-4 bidirectional translating switches

nI2C-bus interface logic; compatible with SMBus standards

nActive LOW reset input

n3 address pins allowing up to 8 devices on the I2C-bus

nChannel selection via I2C-bus, in any combination

nPower-up with all switch channels deselected

nLow Ron switches

nAllows voltage level translation between 1.8 V, 2.5 V, 3.3 V and 5 V buses

nNo glitch on power-up

nSupports hot insertion

nLow standby current

nOperating power supply voltage range of 2.3 V to 5.5 V

n5 V tolerant Inputs

n0 Hz to 400 kHz clock frequency

nESD protection exceeds 2000 V HBM per JESD22-A114, 200 V MM per

JESD22-A115, and 1000 V CDM per JESD22-C101

nLatch-up testing is done to JEDEC Standard JESD78 which exceeds 100 mA

nThree packages offered: SO16, TSSOP16, and HVQFN16

PCA9546A

4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

Rev. 05 — 2 July 2009 Product data sheet

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

3. Ordering information

3.1 Ordering options

Table 1. Ordering information

Type number Package

Name Description Version

PCA9546ABS HVQFN16 plastic thermal enhanced very thin quad ﬂat package;

no leads; 16 terminals; body 4 ×4×0.85 mm SOT629-1

PCA9546AD SO16 plastic small outline package; 16 leads;

body width 3.9 mm SOT109-1

PCA9546APW TSSOP16 plastic thin shrink small outline package; 16 leads;

body width 4.4 mm SOT403-1

Table 2. Ordering options

Type number Topside mark Temperature range

PCA9546ABS 546A −40 °Cto+85°C

PCA9546AD PCA9546AD −40 °Cto+85°C

PCA9546APW PA9546A −40 °Cto+85°C

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

4. Block diagram

Fig 1. Block diagram of PCA9546A

SWITCH CONTROL LOGIC

PCA9546A

POWER-ON

RESET

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SC0

SC1

SC2

SC3

SD0

SD1

SD2

SD3

VSS

VDD

RESET

I2C-BUS

CONTROL

INPUT

FILTER

SCL

SDA

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

5. Pinning information

5.1 Pinning

Fig 2. Pin conﬁguration for SO16 Fig 3. Pin conﬁguration for TSSOP16

Fig 4. Pin conﬁguration for HVQFN16 (transparent top view)

PCA9546AD

A0 VDD

A1 SDA

RESET SCL

SD0 A2

SC0 SC3

SD1 SD3

SC1 SC2

VSS SD2

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PCA9546APW

A0 VDD

A1 SDA

RESET SCL

SD0 A2

SC0 SC3

SD1 SD3

SC1 SC2

VSS SD2

002aab186

002aab187

Transparent top view

SD1 SD3

SC0 SC3

SD0 A2

RESET SCL

SC1

VSS

SD2

SC2

VDD

SDA

4 9

3 10

2 11

1 12

terminal 1

index area

PCA9546ABS

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

5.2 Pin description

[1] HVQFN16 package die supply ground is connected to both the VSS pin and the exposed center pad. The

VSS pin must be connected to supply ground for proper device operation. For enhanced thermal, electrical,

and board-level performance, the exposed pad needs to be soldered to the board using a corresponding

thermal pad on the board, and for proper heat conduction through the board thermal vias need to be

incorporated in the PCB in the thermal pad region.

6. Functional description

Refer to Figure 1 “Block diagram of PCA9546A”.

6.1 Device address

Following a START condition, the bus master must output the address of the slave it is

accessing. The address of the PCA9546A is shown in Figure 5. To conserve power, no

internal pull-up resistors are incorporated on the hardware selectable address pins and

they must be pulled HIGH or LOW.

The last bit of the slave address deﬁnes the operation to be performed. When set to

logic 1 a read is selected, while a logic 0 selects a write operation.

Table 3. Pin description

Symbol Pin Description

SO16, TSSOP16 HVQFN16

A0 1 15 address input 0

A1 2 16 address input 1

RESET 3 1 active LOW reset input

SD0 4 2 serial data 0

SC0 5 3 serial clock 0

SD1 6 4 serial data 1

SC1 7 5 serial clock 1

VSS 86

[1] supply ground

SD2 9 7 serial data 2

SC2 10 8 serial clock 2

SD3 11 9 serial data 3

SC3 12 10 serial clock 3

A2 13 11 address input 2

SCL 14 12 serial clock line

SDA 15 13 serial data line

VDD 16 14 supply voltage

Fig 5. Slave address

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1 1 1 0 A2 A1 A0 R/W

fixed hardware

selectable

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

6.2 Control register

Following the successful acknowledgement of the slave address, the bus master will send

a byte to the PCA9546A, which will be stored in the control register. If multiple bytes are

received by the PCA9546A, it will save the last byte received. This register can be written

and read via the I2C-bus.

6.2.1 Control register deﬁnition

One or several SCx/SDx downstream pair, or channel, is selected by the contents of the

control register. This register is written after the PCA9546A has been addressed. The

4 LSBs of the control byte are used to determine which channel is to be selected. When a

channel is selected, the channel will become active after a STOP condition has been

placed on the I2C-bus. This ensures that all SCx/SDx lines will be in a HIGH state when

the channel is made active, so that no false conditions are generated at the time of

connection.

Remark: Several channels can be enabled at the same time. Example: B3 = 0, B2 = 1,

B1 = 1, B0 = 0, means that channel 0 and channel 3 are disabled and channel 1 and

channel 2 are enabled. Care should be taken not to exceed the maximum bus

capacitance.

Fig 6. Control register

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X X X X B3 B2 B1 B0

channel selection bits

(read/write)

76543210

channel 0

channel 1

channel 2

channel 3

Table 4. Control register: Write—channel selection; Read—channel status

D7 D6 D5 D4 B3 B2 B1 B0 Command

XXXXXXX0 channel 0 disabled

1 channel 0 enabled

XXXXXX0Xchannel 1 disabled

1 channel 1 enabled

XXXXX0XXchannel 2 disabled

1 channel 2 enabled

XXXX0XXXchannel 3 disabled

1 channel 3 enabled

00000000no channel selected;

power-up/reset default state

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

6.3 RESET input

The RESET input is an active LOW signal which may be used to recover from a bus fault

condition. By asserting this signal LOW for a minimum of tw(rst)L, the PCA9546A will reset

its registers and I2C-bus state machine and will deselect all channels. The RESET input

must be connected to VDD through a pull-up resistor.

6.4 Power-on reset

When power is applied to VDD, an internal Power-On Reset (POR) holds the PCA9546A in

a reset condition until VDD has reached VPOR. At this point, the reset condition is released

and the PCA9546A registers and I2C-bus state machine are initialized to their default

states (all zeroes) causing all the channels to be deselected. Thereafter, VDD must be

lowered below 0.2 V to reset the device.

6.5 Voltage translation

The pass gate transistors of the PCA9546A are constructed such that the VDD voltage can

be used to limit the maximum voltage that will be passed from one I2C-bus to another.

Figure 7 shows the voltage characteristics of the pass gate transistors (note that the graph

was generated using the data speciﬁed in Section 10 “Static characteristics” of this data

sheet). In order for the PCA9546A to act as a voltage translator, the Vo(sw) voltage should

be equal to, or lower than the lowest bus voltage. For example, if the main bus was

running at 5 V, and the downstream buses were 3.3 V and 2.7 V, then Vo(sw) should be

equal to or below 2.7 V to effectively clamp the downstream bus voltages. Looking at

Figure 7, we see that Vo(sw)(max) will be at 2.7 V when the PCA9546A supply voltage is

3.5 V or lower, so the PCA9546A supply voltage could be set to 3.3 V. Pull-up resistors

can then be used to bring the bus voltages to their appropriate levels (see Figure 14).

(1) maximum

(2) typical

(3) minimum

Fig 7. Pass gate voltage versus supply voltage

VDD (V)

2.0 5.54.53.0 4.0

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3.0

2.0

4.0

5.0

Vo(sw)

(V)

1.0 3.5 5.02.5

(1)

(2)

(3)

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

More Information can be found in Application Note

AN262: PCA954X family of I

C/SMBus

multiplexers and switches

7. Characteristics of the I2C-bus

The I2C-bus is for 2-way, 2-line communication between different ICs or modules. The two

lines are a serial data line (SDA) and a serial clock line (SCL). Both lines must be

connected to a positive supply via a pull-up resistor when connected to the output stages

of a device. Data transfer may be initiated only when the bus is not busy.

7.1 Bit transfer

One data bit is transferred during each clock pulse. The data on the SDA line must remain

stable during the HIGH period of the clock pulse as changes in the data line at this time

will be interpreted as control signals (see Figure 8).

7.2 START and STOP conditions

Both data and clock lines remain HIGH when the bus is not busy. A HIGH-to-LOW

transition of the data line while the clock is HIGH is deﬁned as the START condition (S).

A LOW-to-HIGH transition of the data line while the clock is HIGH is deﬁned as the STOP

condition (P) (see Figure 9).

7.3 System conﬁguration

A device generating a message is a ‘transmitter’, a device receiving is the ‘receiver’. The

device that controls the message is the ‘master’ and the devices which are controlled by

the master are the ‘slaves’ (see Figure 10).

Fig 8. Bit transfer

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data line

stable;

data valid

change

of data

allowed

SDA

SCL

Fig 9. Deﬁnition of START and STOP conditions

mba608

SDA

SCL P

STOP condition

START condition

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

7.4 Acknowledge

The number of data bytes transferred between the START and the STOP conditions from

transmitter to receiver is not limited. Each byte of eight bits is followed by one

acknowledge bit. The acknowledge bit is a HIGH level put on the bus by the transmitter,

whereas the master generates an extra acknowledge related clock pulse.

A slave receiver which is addressed must generate an acknowledge after the reception of

each byte. Also, a master must generate an acknowledge after the reception of each byte

that has been clocked out of the slave transmitter. The device that acknowledges has to

pull down the SDA line during the acknowledge clock pulse so that the SDA line is stable

LOW during the HIGH period of the acknowledge related clock pulse; set-up and hold

times must be taken into account.

A master receiver must signal an end of data to the transmitter by not generating an

acknowledge on the last byte that has been clocked out of the slave. In this event, the

transmitter must leave the data line HIGH to enable the master to generate a STOP

condition.

Fig 10. System conﬁguration

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MASTER

TRANSMITTER/

RECEIVER

SLAVE

RECEIVER SLAVE

TRANSMITTER/

RECEIVER

MASTER

TRANSMITTER MASTER

TRANSMITTER/

RECEIVER

SDA

SCL

I2C-BUS

MULTIPLEXER

SLAVE

Fig 11. Acknowledgement on the I2C-bus

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START

condition

9821

clock pulse for

acknowledgement

not acknowledge

acknowledge

data output

by transmitter

data output

by receiver

SCL from master

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

7.5 Bus transactions

Data is transmitted to the PCA9546A control register using the Write mode as shown in

Figure 12.

Data is read from PCA9546A using the Read mode as shown in Figure 13.

Fig 12. Write control register

Fig 13. Read control register

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XXXXB3B2B1B01 1 0 A2 A1 A0 0 AS 1 A P

slave address

START condition R/W acknowledge

from slave acknowledge

from slave

control register

SDA

STOP condition

002aab197

XXXXB3B2B1B01 1 0 A2 A1 A0 1 AS 1 NA P

slave address

START condition R/W acknowledge

from slave no acknowledge

from master

control register

SDA

STOP condition

last byte

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

8. Application design-in information

Fig 14. Typical application

PCA9546A

SD0

SC0

VSS

SDA

SCL

RESET

VDD = 3.3 V

VDD = 2.7 V to 5.5 V

I2C/SMBus master

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SDA

SCL channel 0

V = 2.7 V to 5.5 V

SD1

SC1 channel 1

V = 2.7 V to 5.5 V

SD2

SC2 channel 2

V = 2.7 V to 5.5 V

SD3

SC3 channel 3

V = 2.7 V to 5.5 V

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

9. Limiting values

[1] The performance capability of a high-performance integrated circuit in conjunction with its thermal

environment can create junction temperatures which are detrimental to reliability. The maximum junction

temperature of this integrated circuit should not exceed 125 °C.

Table 5. Limiting values

In accordance with the Absolute Maximum Rating System (IEC 60134).

Voltages are referenced to V

(ground = 0 V)

[1]

Symbol Parameter Conditions Min Max Unit

VDD supply voltage −0.5 +7.0 V

VIinput voltage −0.5 +7.0 V

IIinput current - ±20 mA

IOoutput current - ±25 mA

IDD supply current - ±100 mA

ISS ground supply current - ±100 mA

Ptot total power dissipation - 400 mW

Tstg storage temperature −60 +150 °C

Tamb ambient temperature operating −40 +85 °C

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10. Static characteristics

[1] For operation between published voltage ranges, refer to the worst-case parameter in both ranges.

[2] VDD must be lowered to 0.2 V in order to reset part.

Table 6. Static characteristics at VDD = 2.3 V to 3.6 V

= 0 V; T

amb

−

C to +85

C; unless otherwise speciﬁed. See Table 7 on page 14 for V

= 4.5 V to 5.5 V.

[1]

Symbol Parameter Conditions Min Typ Max Unit

Supply

VDD supply voltage 2.3 - 3.6 V

IDD supply current operating mode; VDD = 3.6 V; no load;

VI=V

DD or VSS; fSCL = 100 kHz -1650µA

Istb standby current standby mode; VDD = 3.6 V; no load;

VI=V

DD or VSS

- 0.1 1 µA

VPOR power-on reset voltage no load; VI=V

DD or VSS [2] - 1.6 2.1 V

Input SCL; input/output SDA

VIL LOW-level input voltage −0.5 - +0.3VDD V

VIH HIGH-level input voltage 0.7VDD -6 V

IOL LOW-level output current VOL = 0.4 V 3 - - mA

VOL = 0.6 V 6 - - mA

ILleakage current VI=V

DD or VSS −1-+1 µA

Ciinput capacitance VI=V

SS -1213pF

Select inputs A0 to A2, RESET

VIL LOW-level input voltage −0.5 - +0.3VDD V

VIH HIGH-level input voltage 0.7VDD -V

DD + 0.5 V

ILI input leakage current pin at VDD or VSS −1-+1 µA

Ciinput capacitance VI=V

SS - 1.6 3 pF

Pass gate

Ron ON-state resistance VDD = 3.6 V; VO= 0.4 V; IO=15mA 5 11 30 Ω

VDD = 2.3 V to 2.7 V; VO= 0.4 V;

IO=10mA 71655Ω

Vo(sw) switch output voltage Vi(sw) =V

DD = 3.3 V; Io(sw) =−100 µA - 1.9 - V

Vi(sw) =V

DD = 3.0 V to 3.6 V;

Io(sw) =−100 µA1.6 - 2.8 V

Vi(sw) =V

DD = 2.5 V; Io(sw) =−100 µA - 1.5 - V

Vi(sw) =V

DD = 2.3 V to 2.7 V;

Io(sw) =−100 µA1.1 - 2.0 V

ILleakage current VI=V

DD or VSS −1-+1 µA

Cio input/output capacitance VI=V

SS -35 pF

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

[1] For operation between published voltage ranges, refer to the worst-case parameter in both ranges.

[2] VDD must be lowered to 0.2 V in order to reset part.

Table 7. Static characteristics at VDD = 4.5 V to 5.5 V

= 0 V; T

amb

−

C to +85

C; unless otherwise speciﬁed. See Table 6 on page 13 for V

= 2.3 V to 3.6 V.

[1]

Symbol Parameter Conditions Min Typ Max Unit

Supply

VDD supply voltage 4.5 - 5.5 V

IDD supply current operating mode; VDD = 5.5 V;

no load; VI=V

DD or VSS;

fSCL = 100 kHz

- 65 100 µA

Istb standby current standby mode; VDD = 5.5 V;

no load; VI=V

DD or VSS

- 0.3 1 µA

VPOR power-on reset voltage no load; VI=V

DD or VSS [2] - 1.7 2.1 V

Input SCL; input/output SDA

VIL LOW-level input voltage −0.5 - +0.3VDD V

VIH HIGH-level input voltage 0.7VDD -6 V

IOL LOW-level output current VOL = 0.4 V 3 - - mA

VOL = 0.6 V 6 - - mA

IIL LOW-level input current VI=V

SS −1- +1 µA

IIH HIGH-level input current VI=V

DD −1- +1 µA

Ciinput capacitance VI=V

SS -1213pF

Select inputs A0 to A2, RESET

VIL LOW-level input voltage −0.5 - +0.3VDD V

VIH HIGH-level input voltage 0.7VDD -V

DD + 0.5 V

ILI input leakage current pin at VDD or VSS −1- +1 µA

Ciinput capacitance VI=V

SS -23 pF

Pass gate

Ron ON-state resistance VDD = 4.5 V to 5.5 V; VO= 0.4 V;

IO=15mA 4924Ω

Vo(sw) switch output voltage Vi(sw) =V

DD = 5.0 V;

Io(sw) =−100 µA- 3.6 - V

Vi(sw) =V

DD = 4.5 V to 5.5 V;

Io(sw) =−100 µA2.6 - 4.5 V

ILleakage current VI=V

DD or VSS −1- +1 µA

Cio input/output capacitance VI=V

SS -35 pF

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

11. Dynamic characteristics

[1] Pass gate propagation delay is calculated from the 20 Ω typical Ron and the 15 pF load capacitance.

[2] After this period, the ﬁrst clock pulse is generated.

[3] A device must internally provide a hold time of at least 300 ns for the SDA signal (referred to the VIH(min) of the SCL signal) in order to

bridge the undeﬁned region of the falling edge of SCL.

[4] Cb= total capacitance of one bus line in pF.

[5] Measurements taken with 1 kΩ pull-up resistor and 50 pF load.

Table 8. Dynamic characteristics

Symbol Parameter Conditions Standard-mode

I2C-bus Fast-mode I2C-bus Unit

Min Max Min Max

tPD propagation delay from SDA to SDx,

or SCL to SCx - 0.3[1] - 0.3[1] ns

fSCL SCL clock frequency 0 100 0 400 kHz

tBUF bus free time between a STOP and

START condition 4.7 - 1.3 - µs

tHD;STA hold time (repeated) START condition [2] 4.0 - 0.6 - µs

tLOW LOW period of the SCL clock 4.7 - 1.3 - µs

tHIGH HIGH period of the SCL clock 4.0 - 0.6 - µs

tSU;STA set-up time for a repeated START

condition 4.7 - 0.6 - µs

tSU;STO set-up time for STOP condition 4.0 - 0.6 - µs

tHD;DAT data hold time 0[3] 3.45 0[3] 0.9 µs

tSU;DAT data set-up time 250 - 100 - ns

trrise time of both SDA and SCL

signals - 1000 20 + 0.1Cb[4] 300 ns

tffall time of both SDA and SCL signals - 300 20 + 0.1Cb[4] 300 ns

Cbcapacitive load for each bus line - 400 - 400 pF

tSP pulse width of spikes that must be

suppressed by the input ﬁlter - 50 - 50 ns

tVD;DAT data valid time HIGH-to-LOW [5] -1 - 1µs

LOW-to-HIGH [5] - 0.6 - 0.6 µs

tVD;ACK data valid acknowledge time - 1 - 1 µs

RESET

tw(rst)L LOW-level reset time 4 - 4 - ns

trst reset time SDA clear 500 - 500 - ns

tREC;STA recovery time to START condition 0 - 0 - ns

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

Fig 15. Deﬁnition of timing on the I2C-bus

tSP

tBUF

tHD;STA PP S

tLOW

tHD;DAT

tHIGH tSU;DAT tSU;STA

tHD;STA

tSU;STO

SDA

SCL

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Fig 16. Deﬁnition of RESET timing

SDA

SCL

002aac549

50 %

30 %

50 % 50 %

tREC;STA tw(rst)L

RESET

START

trst

ACK or read cycle

Rise and fall times refer to VIL and VIH.

Fig 17. I2C-bus timing diagram

SCL

SDA

tHD;STA tSU;DAT tHD;DAT

tBUF

tSU;STA tLOW tHIGH

tVD;ACK

002aab175

tSU;STO

protocol START

condition

(S)

bit 7

MSB

(A7)

bit 6

(A6) bit 0

(R/W) acknowledge

(A)

STOP

condition

(P)

1/fSCL

tVD;DAT

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

12. Package outline

Fig 18. Package outline SOT109-1 (SO16)

detail X

vMA

(A )

pin 1 index

UNIT A

max. A1A2A3bpcD

(1) E(1) (1)

ELL

pQZywv θ

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VERSION EUROPEAN

PROJECTION ISSUE DATE

IEC JEDEC JEITA

inches

1.75 0.25

0.10 1.45

1.25 0.25 0.49

0.36 0.25

0.19 10.0

9.8 4.0

3.8 1.27 6.2

5.8 0.7

0.6 0.7

0.3 8

0.25 0.1

DIMENSIONS (inch dimensions are derived from the original mm dimensions)

Note

1. Plastic or metal protrusions of 0.15 mm (0.006 inch) maximum per side are not included.

1.0

0.4

SOT109-1 99-12-27

03-02-19

076E07 MS-012

0.069 0.010

0.004 0.057

0.049 0.01 0.019

0.014 0.0100

0.0075 0.39

0.38 0.16

0.15 0.05

1.05

0.041

0.244

0.228 0.028

0.020 0.028

0.012

0.01

0.25

0.01 0.004

0.039

0.016

0 2.5 5 mm

scale

SO16: plastic small outline package; 16 leads; body width 3.9 mm SOT109-1

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Fig 19. Package outline SOT403-1 (TSSOP16)

UNIT A1A2A3bpcD

(1) E(2) (1)

ELL

pQZywv θ

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VERSION EUROPEAN

PROJECTION ISSUE DATE

IEC JEDEC JEITA

mm 0.15

0.05 0.95

0.80 0.30

0.19 0.2

0.1 5.1

4.9 4.5

4.3 0.65 6.6

6.2 0.4

0.3 0.40

0.06 8

0.13 0.10.21

DIMENSIONS (mm are the original dimensions)

Notes

1. Plastic or metal protrusions of 0.15 mm maximum per side are not included.

2. Plastic interlead protrusions of 0.25 mm maximum per side are not included.

0.75

0.50

SOT403-1 MO-153 99-12-27

03-02-18

0.25

16 9

detail X

(A )

vMA

0 2.5 5 mm

scale

TSSOP16: plastic thin shrink small outline package; 16 leads; body width 4.4 mm SOT403-1

max.

1.1

pin 1 index

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4-channel I2C-bus switch with reset

Fig 20. Package outline SOT629-1 (HVQFN16)

terminal 1

index area

0.651

A1Eh

UNIT ye

0.2

REFERENCES

OUTLINE

VERSION EUROPEAN

PROJECTION ISSUE DATE

IEC JEDEC JEITA

mm 4.1

3.9

2.25

1.95

4.1

3.9 2.25

1.95

0.38

0.23

0.05

0.00 0.05 0.1

DIMENSIONS (mm are the original dimensions)

SOT629-1 MO-220 - - -- - -

0.75

0.50

0.1

0.05

0 2.5 5 mm

scale

SOT629-1

HVQFN16: plastic thermal enhanced very thin quad flat package; no leads;

16 terminals; body 4 x 4 x 0.85 mm

A(1)

max.

AA1c

detail X

y1C

16 13

01-08-08

02-10-22

terminal 1

index area

1/2 e

E(1)

Note

1. Plastic or metal protrusions of 0.075 mm maximum per side are not included.

D(1)

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13. Soldering of SMD packages

This text provides a very brief insight into a complex technology. A more in-depth account

of soldering ICs can be found in Application Note

AN10365 “Surface mount reﬂow

soldering description”

13.1 Introduction to soldering

Soldering is one of the most common methods through which packages are attached to

Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), to form electrical circuits. The soldered joint provides both

the mechanical and the electrical connection. There is no single soldering method that is

ideal for all IC packages. Wave soldering is often preferred when through-hole and

Surface Mount Devices (SMDs) are mixed on one printed wiring board; however, it is not

suitable for ﬁne pitch SMDs. Reﬂow soldering is ideal for the small pitches and high

densities that come with increased miniaturization.

13.2 Wave and reﬂow soldering

Wave soldering is a joining technology in which the joints are made by solder coming from

a standing wave of liquid solder. The wave soldering process is suitable for the following:

•Through-hole components

•Leaded or leadless SMDs, which are glued to the surface of the printed circuit board

Not all SMDs can be wave soldered. Packages with solder balls, and some leadless

packages which have solder lands underneath the body, cannot be wave soldered. Also,

leaded SMDs with leads having a pitch smaller than ~0.6 mm cannot be wave soldered,

due to an increased probability of bridging.

The reﬂow soldering process involves applying solder paste to a board, followed by

component placement and exposure to a temperature proﬁle. Leaded packages,

packages with solder balls, and leadless packages are all reﬂow solderable.

Key characteristics in both wave and reﬂow soldering are:

•Board speciﬁcations, including the board ﬁnish, solder masks and vias

•Package footprints, including solder thieves and orientation

•The moisture sensitivity level of the packages

•Package placement

•Inspection and repair

•Lead-free soldering versus SnPb soldering

13.3 Wave soldering

Key characteristics in wave soldering are:

•Process issues, such as application of adhesive and ﬂux, clinching of leads, board

transport, the solder wave parameters, and the time during which components are

exposed to the wave

•Solder bath speciﬁcations, including temperature and impurities

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13.4 Reﬂow soldering

Key characteristics in reﬂow soldering are:

•Lead-free versus SnPb soldering; note that a lead-free reﬂow process usually leads to

higher minimum peak temperatures (see Figure 21) than a SnPb process, thus

reducing the process window

•Solder paste printing issues including smearing, release, and adjusting the process

window for a mix of large and small components on one board

•Reﬂow temperature proﬁle; this proﬁle includes preheat, reﬂow (in which the board is

heated to the peak temperature) and cooling down. It is imperative that the peak

temperature is high enough for the solder to make reliable solder joints (a solder paste

characteristic). In addition, the peak temperature must be low enough that the

packages and/or boards are not damaged. The peak temperature of the package

depends on package thickness and volume and is classiﬁed in accordance with

Table 9 and 10

Moisture sensitivity precautions, as indicated on the packing, must be respected at all

times.

Studies have shown that small packages reach higher temperatures during reﬂow

soldering, see Figure 21.

Table 9. SnPb eutectic process (from J-STD-020C)

Package thickness (mm) Package reﬂow temperature (°C)

Volume (mm3)

< 350 ≥ 350

< 2.5 235 220

≥ 2.5 220 220

Table 10. Lead-free process (from J-STD-020C)

Package thickness (mm) Package reﬂow temperature (°C)

Volume (mm3)

< 350 350 to 2000 > 2000

< 1.6 260 260 260

1.6 to 2.5 260 250 245

> 2.5 250 245 245

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For further information on temperature proﬁles, refer to Application Note

AN10365

“Surface mount reﬂow soldering description”

14. Abbreviations

MSL: Moisture Sensitivity Level

Fig 21. Temperature proﬁles for large and small components

001aac844

temperature

time

minimum peak temperature

= minimum soldering temperature

maximum peak temperature

= MSL limit, damage level

peak

temperature

Table 11. Abbreviations

Acronym Description

CDM Charged-Device Model

ESD ElectroStatic Discharge

HBM Human Body Model

IC Integrated Circuit

I2C-bus Inter-Integrated Circuit bus

LSB Least Signiﬁcant Bit

MM Machine Model

MSB Most Signiﬁcant Bit

PCB Printed-Circuit Board

SMBus System Management Bus

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15. Revision history

Table 12. Revision history

Document ID Release date Data sheet status Change notice Supersedes

PCA9546A_5 20090702 Product data sheet - PCA9546A_4

Modiﬁcations: •The format of this data sheet has been redesigned to comply with the new identity

guidelines of NXP Semiconductors.

•Legal texts have been adapted to the new company name where appropriate.

•Table 7 “Static characteristics at VDD = 4.5 V to 5.5 V”, sub-section “Input SCL; input/output

SDA”:

–changed IIL Min value from “1 µA” to “−1µA”

–changed IIL Max value from “1 µA” to “+1 µA”

–changed IIH Min value from “1 µA” to “−1µA”

–changed IIH Max value from “1 µA” to “+1 µA”

•Table 8 “Dynamic characteristics”:

–Symbol tf: changed Unit from “µs” to “ns”

–Symbol Cb: changed Unit from “µs” to “pF”

•Updated soldering information.

PCA9546A_4 20060829 Product data sheet - PCA9546A_3

PCA9546A_3

(9397 750 14318) 20050406 Product data sheet - PCA9546A_2

PCA9546A_2

(9397 750 13991) 20040929 Objective data sheet - PCA9546A_1

PCA9546A_1

(9397 750 13308) 20040728 Objective data sheet - -

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16. Legal information

16.1 Data sheet status

[1] Please consult the most recently issued document before initiating or completing a design.

[2] The term ‘short data sheet’ is explained in section “Deﬁnitions”.

[3] The product status of device(s) described in this document may have changed since this document was published and may differ in case of multiple devices. The latest product status

information is available on the Internet at URL http://www.nxp.com.

16.2 Deﬁnitions

Draft — The document is a draft version only. The content is still under

internal review and subject to formal approval, which may result in

modiﬁcations or additions. NXP Semiconductors does not give any

representations or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of

information included herein and shall have no liability for the consequences of

use of such information.

Short data sheet — A short data sheet is an extract from a full data sheet

with the same product type number(s) and title. A short data sheet is intended

for quick reference only and should not be relied upon to contain detailed and

full information. For detailed and full information see the relevant full data

sheet, which is available on request via the local NXP Semiconductors sales

ofﬁce. In case of any inconsistency or conﬂict with the short data sheet, the

full data sheet shall prevail.

16.3 Disclaimers

General — Information in this document is believed to be accurate and

reliable. However, NXP Semiconductors does not give any representations or

warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of such

information and shall have no liability for the consequences of use of such

information.

Right to make changes — NXP Semiconductors reserves the right to make

changes to information published in this document, including without

limitation speciﬁcations and product descriptions, at any time and without

notice. This document supersedes and replaces all information supplied prior

to the publication hereof.

Suitability for use — NXP Semiconductors products are not designed,

authorized or warranted to be suitable for use in medical, military, aircraft,

space or life support equipment, nor in applications where failure or

malfunction of an NXP Semiconductors product can reasonably be expected

to result in personal injury, death or severe property or environmental

damage. NXP Semiconductors accepts no liability for inclusion and/or use of

NXP Semiconductors products in such equipment or applications and

therefore such inclusion and/or use is at the customer’s own risk.

Applications — Applications that are described herein for any of these

products are for illustrative purposes only. NXP Semiconductors makes no

representation or warranty that such applications will be suitable for the

speciﬁed use without further testing or modiﬁcation.

Limiting values — Stress above one or more limiting values (as deﬁned in

the Absolute Maximum Ratings System of IEC 60134) may cause permanent

damage to the device. Limiting values are stress ratings only and operation of

the device at these or any other conditions above those given in the

Characteristics sections of this document is not implied. Exposure to limiting

values for extended periods may affect device reliability.

Terms and conditions of sale — NXP Semiconductors products are sold

subject to the general terms and conditions of commercial sale, as published

at http://www.nxp.com/proﬁle/terms, including those pertaining to warranty,

intellectual property rights infringement and limitation of liability, unless

explicitly otherwise agreed to in writing by NXP Semiconductors. In case of

any inconsistency or conﬂict between information in this document and such

terms and conditions, the latter will prevail.

No offer to sell or license — Nothing in this document may be interpreted

or construed as an offer to sell products that is open for acceptance or the

grant, conveyance or implication of any license under any copyrights, patents

or other industrial or intellectual property rights.

Export control — This document as well as the item(s) described herein

may be subject to export control regulations. Export might require a prior

authorization from national authorities.

16.4 Trademarks

Notice: All referenced brands, product names, service names and trademarks

are the property of their respective owners.

I2C-bus — logo is a trademark of NXP B.V.

17. Contact information

For more information, please visit: http://www.nxp.com

For sales ofﬁce addresses, please send an email to: salesaddresses@nxp.com

Document status[1][2] Product status[3] Deﬁnition

Objective [short] data sheet Development This document contains data from the objective speciﬁcation for product development.

Preliminary [short] data sheet Qualiﬁcation This document contains data from the preliminary speciﬁcation.

Product [short] data sheet Production This document contains the product speciﬁcation.

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For more information, please visit: http://www.nxp.com

For sales office addresses, please send an email to: salesaddresses@nxp.com

Date of release: 2 July 2009

Document identifier: PCA9546A_5

Please be aware that important notices concerning this document and the product(s)

described herein, have been included in section ‘Legal information’.

18. Contents

1 General description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

3 Ordering information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3.1 Ordering options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

4 Block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

5 Pinning information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

5.1 Pinning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

5.2 Pin description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

6 Functional description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

6.1 Device address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

6.2 Control register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

6.2.1 Control register deﬁnition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

6.3 RESET input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

6.4 Power-on reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

6.5 Voltage translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

7 Characteristics of the I2C-bus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

7.1 Bit transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

7.2 START and STOP conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

7.3 System conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

7.4 Acknowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

7.5 Bus transactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

8 Application design-in information . . . . . . . . . 11

9 Limiting values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

10 Static characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

11 Dynamic characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

12 Package outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

13 Soldering of SMD packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

13.1 Introduction to soldering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

13.2 Wave and reﬂow soldering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

13.3 Wave soldering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

13.4 Reﬂow soldering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

14 Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

15 Revision history. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

16 Legal information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

16.1 Data sheet status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

16.2 Deﬁnitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

16.3 Disclaimers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

16.4 Trademarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

17 Contact information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

18 Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25