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Texas Instruments LM3488MMX | Demoboard TIDA-010057

Ultrasound smart probe power supply reference design

Overview

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IC revisionE2

Description

Significant technological advancements and high degree of integration in Medical imaging, especially hand-held ultrasound smart probes, are pushing engineers to come up with highly-efficient, noise immune power solutions in a small size. This reference design documents end to end power and data solution for our high performance 128-channel Tx/64-channel Rx ultrasound smart probe solution with TX7332 transmit chip and AFE5832LP receive chip. The power tree includes a single-stage transformer-less HV generation (up to +/- 80V & height <5mm) for transmit and the point-of-load LV for the AFEs & FPGA from a 5V USB Type-C™ input. This design enables low-noise (<10mV ripple) efficient rails and better thermal performance (< 10°C temp rise) achieving system efficiency ~80%, receive data SNR > 55dB and ultra-compact size (90mm x 45mm x 20mm). All power rails can be synchronized to an external clock using our integrated buffer-divider CDCE949. This design also supports 1S battery input with a normal ultrasound operation of up to 2 hours.

Features

  • Transformer less dual rail HV (±80V @ 25 mA) generation from 5V USB in single stage implementation to meet component height requirement of < 5mm
  • Low ripple and LV supply for the front end and FPGA from a 5V USB Type-C input
  • Compact board size (< 90mm x 45 mm x 20mm)
  • End to End System Efficiency ~80% running at full load
  • SNR > 55dB (Noise Floor below -90dB)
  • EN/DISABLE supplies for power optimization and all rails can be synchronized to external clock
  • Accurate real time power consumption measurement using high performance instrumentation amplifiers INA231
  • High speed data acquisition over USB Type C up to 4.2 Gbps

Typical applications

  • Ultrasound smart probe

Products

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WCAP-CSGP MLCCs 50 V(DC), 100 pF, ±5%
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Status Activei| Production is active. Expected lifetime: >10 years.
Capacitance100 pF
Capacitance±5% 
Rated Voltage50 V (DC)
Size0402 
Operating Temperature -55 °C up to +125 °C
Q-Factor1000 %
Insulation Resistance10 GΩ
Ceramic TypeNP0 Class I 
Length1 mm
Width0.5 mm
Height0.5 mm
Pad Dimension0.25 mm
Packaging7" Tape & Reel 
WE-CBF SMT EMI Suppression Ferrite Bead, –, –
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Status Activei| Production is active. Expected lifetime: >10 years.
Size0603 
Operating Temperature -55 °C up to +125 °C
Length1.6 mm
Width0.8 mm
Height0.8 mm
Pad Dimension0.3 mm
Rated Current2000 mA
Rated Current2000 mA
MountSMT 
Impedance @ 100 MHz30 Ω
Maximum Impedance40 Ω
Maximum Impedance1000 MHz 
Rated Current 23000 mA
DC Resistance0.04 Ω
TypeHigh Current 
WE-PMI Power Multilayer Inductor, –, –
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Status Activei| Production is active. Expected lifetime: >10 years.
Size0805 
Operating Temperature -40 °C up to +125 °C
Q-Factor25 %
Length2 mm
Width1.2 mm
Height1 mm
Inductance3.3 µH
Rated Current700 mA
Saturation Current280 mA
DC Resistance200 mΩ
Self Resonant Frequency30 MHz
MountSMT 
Rated Current 21000 mA
DC Resistance0.25 Ω
TypeLow RDC 
WE-LQS SMT Power Inductor, –, –
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Status Activei| Production is active. Expected lifetime: >10 years.
Size8040 
Operating Temperature -40 °C up to +125 °C
Length8 mm
Width8 mm
Height4.2 mm
Inductance100 µH
Saturation Current1500 mA
DC Resistance290 mΩ
Self Resonant Frequency6.4 MHz
Rated Current1200 mA
MountSMT 
WE-TPC SMT Tiny Power Inductor, –, –
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Status Activei| Production is active. Expected lifetime: >10 years.
Size4828 
Operating Temperature -40 °C up to +125 °C
Length4.8 mm
Width4.8 mm
Height2.8 mm
Inductance1000 µH
Saturation Current80 mA
Self Resonant Frequency2.3 MHz
Rated Current140 mA
MountSMT 
DC Resistance7 Ω