PCA9451A
Power management IC for i.MX 93x application processor
Rev. 2.0 — 17 April 2023
Product data sheet
1 General description
The PCA9451A is a single chip Power Management IC (PMIC) designed to support i.MX 93x family processor
in both 1 cell Li-Ion and Li-polymer battery portable application and 5 V adapter non-portable applications.
The device provides six high efficiency step-down regulators, three LDOs, one 400 mA load switch, 2-channel
level translator and 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator driver. Three buck regulators support Dynamic Voltage Scaling
(DVS)1 along with programmable ramping up and down time. The buck regulators support remote sense to
compensate IR drop to load from buck regulator, allowing better performance to meet the demand for accuracy
in critical supply rails. This device is characterized across -40 °C to 105 °C ambient temperature range, making
it a good option for the industrial, extended-industrial, and consumer markets.
The six step-down regulators are designed to providing power for i.MX 93x application processor and the
associated DRAM memory. The LDO1 features very low quiescent current to provide power for Secure Non-
Volatile Storage (SNVS) since this LDO is always ON when input voltage is valid. Low quiesce (Low IQ) is
important in low voltage systems since it enables longer battery life without sacrificing performance.
The PCA9451A also integrates a 2-bit logic translator, dual supply translating transceiver with auto direction
sensing, enabling bidirectional voltage level translation. It can be used as I2C level translator. PCA9451A also
includes a 400 mA load switch supplying 3.3 V power supply to SD card, which has an internal discharge
resistor, used to discharge the electric charge stored in the output when the equipment is turned off, for safety
reasons.
The PCA9451A is offered in an industrial friendly 56-pin HVQFN package, 7 mm x 7 mm, 0.4 mm pitch.
2 Features and benefits
• Six high-efficiency step down regulators
– One 4 A dual phase buck regulator with DVS feature and remote sense
– One 2 A buck regulator with DVS feature and remote sense
– One 3 A buck regulator
– One 2 A buck regulator
– One 1.5 A buck regulator
• Three linear regulators
– One Low IQ 10 mA LDO
– One 150 mA LDO
– One 200 mA LDO
• 400 mA load switch with a built-in active discharge resistor
• 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator driver and buffer output
• Two channel logic level translator
• Power control IO
– Power ON/OFF control
1 To reduce overall power consumption, processor core voltages can vary depending on the mode or activity level of the processor.
DVS is used to support such voltage variation requirements by dynamically changing the output voltage of the regulator.