2.

Terminated Input. TheDS90C032 requires external fail-

safe biasing for terminated input failsafe.

Terminated input failsafe is the case of a receiver that

has a 100

Ω termination across its inputs and the driver

is in the following situations. Unplugged from the bus, or

the driver output is in TRI-STATE or in power-off condi-

tion. The use of external biasing resistors provide a

small bias to set the differential input voltage while the

line is un-driven, and therefore the receiver output will be

in HIGH state. If the driver is removed from the bus but

the cable is still present and floating, the unplugged

cable can become a floating antenna that can pick up

noise. The LVDS receiver is designed to detect very

small amplitude and width signals and recover them to

standard logic levels. Thus, if the cable picks up more

than 10mV of differential noise, the receiver may re-

spond. To insure that any noise is seen as common-

mode and not differential, a balanced interconnect and

twisted pair cables is recommended, as they help to

ensure that noise is coupled common to both lines and

rejected by the receivers.

3.

Shorted Inputs. If a fault condition occurs that shorts

the receiver inputs together, thus resulting in a 0V differ-

ential input voltage, the receiver output will remain in a

HIGH state. Shorted input fail-safe is not supported

across the common-mode range of the device (1.2V

external common-mode voltage applied.

4.

Operation in environment with greater than 10mV

differential noise.

National recommends external failsafe biasing on its

LVDS receivers for a number of system level and signal

quality reasons. First, only an application that requires

failsafe biasing needs to employ it. Second, the amount

of failsafe biasing is now an application design param-

eter and can be custom tailored for the specific applica-

tion. In applications in low noise environments, they may

choose to use a very small bias if any. For applications

with less balanced interconnects and/or in high noise

environments they may choose to boost failsafe further.

Nationals "LVDS Owner’s Manual provides detailed cal-

culations for selecting the proper failsafe biasing resis-

tors. Third, the common-mode voltage is biased by the

resistors during the un-driven state. This is selected to

be close to the nominal driver offset voltage (V

when switching between driven and un-driven states,

the common-mode modulation on the bus is held to a

minimum.

For additional Failsafe Biasing information, please refer

to Application Note AN-1194 for more detail.

The footprint of theDS90C032 is the same as the industry

standard 26LS32 Quad Differential (RS-422) Receiver.

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