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THMC45
SINGLE-PHASE 5VDC BRUSHLESS FAN DRIVER WITH SINGLE WIRE CONTROL INTERFACE
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Functional Description
General Overview
THMC45 is a H-bridge, single-phase DC BLM drive device with PWM RPM control that is intended
primarily for 5V DC cooling fan applications requiring speed control with a tachometer feedback signal.
The PWM duty cycle and frequency is dependent on the input signal present on the PWM input pin.
The device has an internal Hall sensor comparator/signal conditioner, a low power sleep state mode
with hall sensor bias switch, and locked rotor protection with automatic restart after a locked rotor
condition. The THMC45 uses the PWM input pin for the PWM frequency and duty cycle input, for
providing a tachometer current pulse feedback signaling, and for providing a means to for entering
sleep and run states. The THMC45 provides a more efficient drive solution to fan RPM control than
external linear voltage control. It is also considerably more efficient than controlling DC brushless fan
RPM using external low-side PWM.
Hall Sensor Comparator and Signal Conditioning Inputs (H+, H-)
The THMC45 has an internal Hall sensor comparator with signal conditioning, allowing the use of low-
cost hall sensors. The Hall signal conditioning block receives a low-level differential voltage from the
Hall position sensor and implements zero differential voltage crossing detection with a de-glitch time of
25s (typical) to reject noise on the hall signal inputs. In addition to the 25s (typical) de-glitch time, an
additional 200s (typical) ignore timer is then used to reject hall noise after the de-glitch timer has timed
out. Referring to Figure 1, the OUTA output that was sourcing current changes to sinking current after
the 25s de-glitch time is reached. Likewise, the OUTB output that was sinking current changes to
sourcing current after the 25s de-glitch time is reached. The Hall comparator circuit has an input
offset voltage, VIO, of no greater than ±7 mV. The common-mode input voltage range is 1.0 V to 3.5 V.