TI unveil 4 new Current Shunt Monitor ICs

Key features and benefits:

INA3221: Triple-channel shunt and bus voltage monitor with I2C interface

-Industry's first triple-channel device with digital interface enables monitoring of three separate voltages, eliminating the need for discrete devices for each voltage rail.
-80-uV maximum offset voltage and 0.5-percent gain error enable highly accurate current measurement and precision over-current detection for end equipment such as notebook and desktop PCs, base stations and servers.

INA282: Wide common-mode range, bidirectional, high-accuracy current shunt monitor

-70-uV maximum offset voltage and low gain error enable the use of smaller shunt resistors to reduce power consumption, board space and BOM.
-First device to combine wide common-mode range (-14 V to +80 V) and high common-mode rejection ratio (120 dB) with low offset voltage across multiple gain options. This feature combination increases accuracy in high-voltage applications, such as industrial system power units and telecom power systems.

INA223: Analogue output current shunt, voltage and instantaneous power monitor

-Industry's first analogue multiple output current shunt device offers multiplexed current, voltage and instantaneous power values to reduce board space and BOM.
-Programmable gain of 20, 128 and 300 allows operation over a wide dynamic current load without switching the sensing element, improving response time and accuracy in high precision products, such as such as battery-powered notebooks, mobile phones and tablets.

LMP8480: Precision high-side current sense amplifier with voltage output

-High common-mode voltage range of 4 V to 76 V and a high supply range of 4.5 V to 76 V reduce system cost by allowing the device to be powered from the same voltage node it is monitoring.
-Input offset voltage of 265 uV, 50-percent lower than the competition, increases sensing accuracy in high-precision applications, such as telecom, automotive and solar power monitoring.

Designers can develop a system management solution by combining an INA3221, INA222, INA223 or LMP8480 current shunt monitor with TI's OMAP TM processors, Stellaris ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers, LM75A or TMP75 temperature sensor, as well as a wide range of analogue monitoring and control integrated analogue-to-digital converter and digital-to-analogue converter solutions, such as the AMC7812 or LMP92001.

Evaluation modules as well as IBIS and SPICE models are available today to quickly evaluate these devices.

The new current shunt monitors are available to sample and purchase today. Packaging and suggested retail pricing in 1,000-unit quantities are as follows:
-INA3221, 4-mm x 4-mm, 16-pin QFN: US$1.85
-INA282, 4.9-mm x 6-mm, 8-pin SOIC: US$1.25
-INA223, 2.5-mm x 2.5-mm, 10-pin SON: US$1.15
-LMP8040, 4.9-mm x 3.0-mm, 8-pin MSOP: US$1.10