L9375应用笔记.pdfVIP

AN2804 Application note Virtual current control loop for L9374-L9375 coil driver kit in ABS-ESC control unit Introduction In the conventional hydraulic modulator for ABS-ESC control units, the 6 inlet valves (also known as ISO and/or TC-ISO valves), that is, the 4 devoted to the ABS/TCS functions and the other 2 valves devoted to the ESC functions, need a strict control of the coil energizing current. From the point of view of the electronic components involved in the ABS-ESC system partitioning, the above specification means to have a coil driver kit with 6 current regulated channels. The current regulation specification guarantees to have in the coil, driving the opening/closing of the on-off solenoid valve, the same energizing current against supply voltage changes, temperature gradient, stiction phenomena inside the valve due, for instance, to the aging and/or waste of the hydraulic and mechanical components (e.g. brake fluid, ball, armature, spring,…) involved into the valve working. In this work, we propose a coil driver kit, composed by L9374-L9375, for new generation ABS/ESC control unit. The L9374 is a smart quad low side driver with 2 current regulated channels (accuracy is about 6%) and 2 PWM channels. On the other hand, the L9375 is an octal low side driver having 4 PWM channels and 4 conventional on-off switch channels. In order to allow the L9374-L9375 kit to work as there are 6 current regulated channels, we conc