Thursday 5 April 2018

Protecting microcontroller's Inputs

1) Filtering


This circuit can be used to protect I/Os of micro-controller/ processors.  D1A is used for Transient Voltage Suppression or ESD protection. R1 acts as current limiting resister as well as low pass filter together with C1. The value of the resistor and the capacitor must be sized so that the micro-controller does not miss any signals.

Rise time of the fastest income edge = 2.2 RC

2) Limiting Current


This circuit limit the input current to 23.2 mA (VZ/R1 = 5.1 / 220).

3) Limiting Voltage

Use schottky diodes with 0.2 Vf for better performance. Once the voltage at I/O pin is greater than VCC by about 0.2V, the top diode will start to conduct. The bottom diode will conduct for voltage less than -0.2V.

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