This device has been especially designed to
protect 2 new high voltage, as well as classical
SLICs, against transient overvoltages.
Positive overvoltages are clamped by 2 diodes.
Negative surges are suppressed by 2 thyristors,
their breakdown voltage being referenced to -V
BAT
through the gate.
This component presents a very low gate
triggering current (I
) in order to reduce the cur-
GT
rent consumption on printed circuit board during
the firing phase.
SO-8
FUNCTIONAL DIAGRAM
BENEFITS
Trisils are not subject to ageing and provide a fail
safe mode in short circuit for a better protection.
Trisils are used to help equipment to meet various
standards such as UL1950, IEC950 / CSA C22.2,
UL1459 and FCC part68. Trisils have UL94 V0
resin approved (Trisils are UL497B approved (file:
E136224)).
March 2002 - Ed: 1A
1
TIP 1RING 1
2
GATE
3
GATE
TIP 2
4
8
7
6
5
GND
GND
RING 2
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LCDP1521
IN COMPLIANCES WITH THE FOLLOWING STANDARDS
STANDARD
GR-1089 Core
First level
GR-1089 Core
Second level
GR-1089 Core
Intra-building
ITU-T-K20/K21
ITU-T-K20
(IEC61000-4-2)
VDE0433
VDE0878
IEC61000-4-5
FCC Part 68, lightning
surge type A
FCC Part 68, lightning
surge type B
Peak Surge
Voltage
(V)
2500
1000
Voltage
Waveform
2/10µs
10/1000µs
Required
peak current
(A)
500
100
Current
Waveform
2/10µs
10/1000µs
Minimum serial
resistor to meet
50002/10µs5002/10µs62
15002/10µs1002/10µs7
6000
1500
8000
15000
4000
2000
4000
2000
4000
4000
1500
800
10/700µs150
5/310µs200
37.5
1/60 nsESD contact discharge
ESD air discharge
10/700µs100
5/310µs120
50
1.2/50µs100
1/20µs27
50
10/700µs
1.2/50µs
10/160µs
10/560µs
100
100
200
100
5/310µs
8/20µs
10/160µs
10/560µs
10009/720µs255/320µs0
standard (Ω)
31
57
20
0
0
40
0
120
27
43
32
THERMAL RESISTANCE
SymbolParameterValueUnit
Rth (j-a)
ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS (T
SymbolParameter
I
GT
I
H
I
RM
I
RG
V
RM
V
GT
V
F
V
FP
V
DGL
V
GATE
V
RG
C
Junction to ambient
= 25°C)
amb
Gate triggering current
Holding current
Reverse leakage current LINE / GND
Reverse leakage current GATE / LINE
Reverse voltage LINE / GND
Gate triggering voltage
Forward drop voltage LINE / GND
Peak forward voltage LINE / GND
Dynamic switching voltage GATE / LINE
GATE / GND voltage
Reverse voltage GATE / LINE
Capacitance LINE / GND
170°C/W
I
V
V
RM
R
V
F
I
RM
I
R
I
H
I
PP
V
2/8
LCDP1521
ABSOLUTE RATINGS (T
= 25°C, unless otherwise specified).
amb
SymbolParameterValueUnit
I
I
TSM
PP
Peak pulse current (see note1)
Non repetitive surge peak on-state
current
10/1000µs
8/20µs
10/560µs
5/310µs
10/160µs
1/20µs
2/10µs
t = 10ms
t=1s
15
60
20
25
30
60
70
5
3.5
(50Hz sinusoidal)
I2t
I
t = 10ms0.125A
2
t value for fusing
(50Hz sinusoidal)
I
GSM
Maximum gate current
t = 10ms2A
(50Hz sinusoidal)
V
V
MLG
MGL
T
Tj
T
stg
Maximum voltage LINE/GND
Maximum voltage GATE/LINE
Storage temperature range
Maximum junction temperature
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Fig. A1: LCDP1521 concept behavior.
Rs1
L 1
-Vbat
GND
C
IG
Gate
T1
Th1
TIP
D1
ID1
VTip
GND
Rs2
RING
VRing
L 2
Figure A1 shows the classical protection circuit using the LCDP1521 crowbar concept. This topology has been developed to protect the new high voltage SLICs. It allows to program the negative
firing threshold while the positive clamping value is fixed at GND.
When a negative surge occurs on one wire (L1 for example), a current IG flows through the base of the
transistor T1 and then injects a current in the gate of the thyristor Th1. Th1 fires and all the surge current
flows through the ground. After the surge when the current flowing through Th1 becomes less negative
than the holding current I
When a positive surge occurs on one wire (L1 for example), the diode D1 conducts and the surge current
flows through the ground.
The capacitor C is used to speed up the crowbar structure firing during the fast surge edges.
This allows to minimize the dynamical breakover voltage at the SLIC Tip and Ring inputs during fast
strikes. Note that this capacitor is generally present around the SLIC - Vbat pin.
So to be efficient it has to be as close as possible from the LCDP1521 Gate pin and from the reference
ground track (or plan). The optimized value for C is 220nF.
The series resitors Rs1 and Rs2 designed in figure A1 represent the fuse resistors or the PTC which are
mandatory to withstand the power contact or the power induction tests imposed by the various country
standards. Taking into account this fact the actual lightning surge current flowing through the LCDP is
equal to:
I surge = V surge / (Rg + Rs)
, then Th1 switches off.
H
WithV surge = peak surge voltage imposed by the standard.
Rg = series resistor of the surge generator
Rs = series resistor of the line card (equivalent to PTC+RonFig. A2)
e.g. For a line card with 60Ω of series resistors which has to be qualified under GR1089 Core 1000V
10/1000µs surge, the actual current through the LCDP1521 is equal to:
I surge = 1000 / (10 + 60) = 14A
The LCDP1521 is particularly optimized for the new telecom applications such as the fiber in the loop,
the WLL, the remote central office. In this case, the operating voltages are smaller than in the classical
system. This makes the high voltage SLICs particularly suitable. The schematics of figure A2 gives the
most frequent topology used for these applications.
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Fig. A2: Protection of high voltage SLICs.
LCDP1521
-Vbat
PTC or Fuse
Line 1
PTC or Fuse
PTC or Fuse
Line 2
PTC or Fuse
Fig. 1: Surge peak current versus overload dura-
tion.
R
LCDPxxxx
TIP
SLIC 1
Ring relay 1
R
RING
R
SLIC 2
Ring relay 2
R
Fig. 2: Relative variation of holding current versus
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