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Offline pplaninskyTopic starter

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FETs connected the "wrong" way?
« on: January 12, 2022, 11:30:40 pm »
Hi,

I am looking at the block diagram of this power switch IC.
I have two questions:
1. The main switch P-MOS body is connected to ground. How does this work?
2. The flag (FLG) driver is also a P-MOS with the body connected to ground. Isn't that supposed to be a N-MOS open drain?

Thanks!
https://www.richtek.com/assets/product_file/RT9742/DS9742-10.pdf
« Last Edit: January 13, 2022, 12:00:55 am by pplaninsky »
 

Offline Cerebus

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Re: FETs connected the "wrong" way?
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2022, 03:36:17 am »
Your reading of what they should be seems entirely reasonable to me.  I think I'd just assume that the graphic artist given the job of cleaning up the schematic for publication didn't understand what they were looking at, screwed up, and someone didn't check it properly.
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Re: FETs connected the "wrong" way?
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2022, 05:56:15 am »
It is in the datasheet you linked, read the datasheet.
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Offline Terry Bites

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Re: FETs connected the "wrong" way?
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2022, 05:45:47 pm »
Total graphics cockup I think. And a lack of oversight by the engineers.
Or is it like the American Megatrands-no, not trends- folly. "Yes its a typo but we can't be bothered to fix it, so there." See
Absurd.

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Re: FETs connected the "wrong" way?
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2022, 08:11:27 pm »
Do not mislead the OP.

Let me try again:

It Is in the datasheet. Just read the datasheet.
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Offline langwadt

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Re: FETs connected the "wrong" way?
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2022, 08:30:01 pm »
the datasheet says N-channel and chargepump, the drawing just uses a weird fet symbol
 

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Re: FETs connected the "wrong" way?
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2022, 09:40:02 pm »
The weird MOSFET symbol is explained in the datasheet linked in the OP, page 11 of 19.


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