When I was first approached about roadtesting an e-Fuse Eval kit, I had the following thought bubble up from deep in my mind: Why would we roadtest a fuse?
Then, I went to dear Google and asked it about the growth of e-Fuses. I'm not going to quote any particular study, but the use of e-Fuses is growing considerably.
So, I agreed to the roadtest because e-Fuses have a lot of tech in them for their size and I feel the community should explore them. Perhaps even compare them to ye old fashioned trip-wire fuse. It's perhaps something a new member, first time roadtester, or the curious-at-heart would be interested in spending some "quality" time with.
In any event, I wanted to get your thoughts on roadtesting e-Fuses.
Here's some facts about the product:
EVB-TCKE805NA is a TCKE805NAe-Fuse IC evaluation board (EVB). It is an evaluation board for supporting TCKE8xx series-design. The passive components required to operate IC are mounted, enabling easy operation check and characterization. The evaluation board features:
• Input voltage range from 4.4V to 18V
• Output limit current range from 0.5A to 5.0A adjustable
• Adjustable slew rate
• Active high enable control
• Auto retry function
• Auto discharge
• Available in 3x3mm WSON10B package
Here's the schematic
Here's the documentation:
Here's my poll:
