PCA9420
Power management IC for low-power microcontroller
applications
Rev. 2 — 26 January 2021
Product data sheet
1 General description
The PCA9420 is a highly-integrated Power Management IC (PMIC), targeted to provide
a full power management solution for low power microcontroller applications or other
similar applications.
The device consists of a linear battery charger capable of charging up to 315 mA current.
It has an I2C programmable Constant Current (CC) and Constant Voltage (CV) values
for flexible configuration. Various built-in protection features such as input overvoltage
protection, overcurrent protection, thermal protection, etc. are also provided for safe
battery charging. It also features JEITA compliant charging.
The device also integrates two step-down (buck) DC/DC converters which have I2C
programmable output voltage. Both buck regulators have integrated high-side and low-
side switches and related control circuitry, to minimize the external component counts;
a Pulse-Frequency Modulation (PFM) approach is utilized to achieve better efficiency
under light load condition. Other protection features such as overcurrent protection,
under-voltage lockout (UVLO), etc. are also provided. By default, the input for these
regulators is powered by either VIN or VBAT, whichever is greater.
In addition, two on-chip LDO regulators are provided to power up various voltage rails in
the system.
Other features such as FM+ I2C-bus interface, chip enable, interrupt signal, etc. are also
provided.
The chip is offered in 2.09 mm x 2.09 mm, 5 x 5 bump, 0.4 mm pitch WLCSP package;
and 3 mm x 3 mm, 24-pin QFN package.
2 Features and Benefits
• Linear battery charger for charging single cell li-ion battery
– 20 V tolerance on VIN pin
– Programmable input OVP (5.5 V or 6 V)
– Programmable constant current (up to 315 mA) and pre-charge low voltage current
threshold
– Programmable constant voltage regulation
– Programmable automatic recharge voltage and termination current threshold
– Built-in protection features such as input OVP, battery SCP, thermal protection
– JEITA compliant
– Battery attached detection
– Over-temperature protection