1. General description
The PCA9703 is a low power 18 V tolerant SPI General Purpose Input (GPI) shift register
designed to monitor the status of switch inputs. It generates an interrupt when one or
more of the switch inputs change state but allows selected inputs to not generate
interrupts using the interrupt masking feature. The input level is recognized as a HIGH
when it is greater than 0.8 V
DD
and as a LOW when it is less than 0.55 V
DD
(minimum
LOW threshold of 2.5 V at 5 V node). The PCA9703 can monitor up to 16 switch inputs.
The falling edge of the CS
pin samples the input port status and clears the interrupt. When
CS
is LOW, the rising edge of the SCLK loads the shift register and shifts the value out of
the shift register. The serial input is sampled on the falling edge of SCLK. The contents of
the shift register are loaded into the interrupt mask register of the device on the rising
edge of CS
.
Each of the input ports has a 18 V breakdown ESD protection circuit, which dumps the
ESD/overvoltage current to ground. When used with a series resistor (minimum 100 k),
the input can connect to a 12 V battery and support double battery, reverse battery, 27 V
jump start and 40 V load dump conditions in automotive applications. Higher voltages can
be tolerated on the inputs depending on the series resistor used to limit the input current.
The INT_EN pin is used to both enable the GPI pins and to enable the INT
output pin to
minimize battery drain in cyclically supplied pull-up or pull-down applications. The SDIN
pull-down prevents floating nodes when the device is used in daisy-chain applications.
With both the high breakdown voltage and high ESD, this device is useful for both
automotive (AEC-Q100 compliance available) and mobile applications.
2. Features and benefits
16 general purpose input ports
18 V tolerant input ports with 100 k external series resistor
Input LOW threshold 0.55 V
DD
with minimum of 2.5 V at V
DD
=4.5V
Open-drain interrupt output
Interrupt enable pin (INT_EN) disables GPI pins and interrupt output
Interrupt-masking feature allows no interrupt generation from selected inputs
V
DD
range: 4.5 V to 5.5 V
I
DD
is very low 2.5 A maximum
SPI serial interface with speeds up to 5 MHz
SPI supports daisy-chain connection for large switch numbers
AEC-Q100 compliance available
PCA9703
18 V tolerant SPI 16-bit GPI with maskable INT
Rev. 4 — 5 September 2014 Product data sheet
