January 16, 2012
LM25056
System Power Measurement IC with PMBus™
General Description
Features
The LM25056 combines high performance analog and digital
technology with a PMBus™ compliant SMBus™/I2C interface
to accurately measure the operating conditions of electrical
systems including computing and storage blades connected
to a backplane power bus. The LM25056 continuously sup-
plies real-time power, voltage, current, and temperature data
to the system management host via the SMBus interface.
Input voltage range: 3V to 17V
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I2C/SMBus™ interface with PMBus compliant command
structure
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Remote temperature sensing with programmable warning
and shutdown thresholds
Real time monitoring of VIN, IIN, PIN, VAUX with 12-bit
resolution and 1 kHz sampling rate
The LM25056 monitoring block captures both real-time and
average values of subsystem operating parameters (VIN, IIN,
PIN, VAUX) as well as peak power. Accurate power measure-
ment is accomplished by measuring the product of the input
voltage and current through a shunt resistor. LM25056 cur-
rent measurement has a ±1.5% accuracy over the tempera-
ture range of -40°C to +85°C with operation from -40°C to
+125°C. A black box (Telemetry/Fault Snapshot) function
captures and stores telemetry data and device status in the
event of a warning or a fault.
Current measurement error: ±1.5%: -40°C to +85°C
Voltage measurement error: ±1.5%: -40°C to +85°C
Power measurement error: ±3%: -40°C to +85°C
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True input power measurement using simultaneous
sampling of VIN and IIN accurately averages dynamic
power readings
Averaging of VIN, IIN, PIN, and VAUX over programmable
interval ranging from 0.001 to 4 seconds
User programmable WARN and FAULT thresholds with
SMBA notification
Black box capture of telemetry measurements and device
status triggered by WARN and FAULT conditions
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PMBus is a trademark of SMIF, Inc. SMBus is a trademark of Intel Corp.
Full featured application development software
LLP-24 package
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Applications
Server backplane systems
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Base station power distribution systems
Subsystem power measurement
Typical Application Schematic
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