DS3896  Product Folder

These advanced transceivers are specifically designed to overcome problems associated with driving a densely populated backplane, and thus provide significant improvement in both speed and data integrity. Their low output capacitance, low output signal swing and noise immunity features make them ideal for driving low impedance buses with minimum power consumption.

The DS3896 is an octal high speed schottky bus transceiver with common control signals, whereas the DS3897 is a quad device with independent driver input and receiver output pins. The DS3897 has a separate driver disable for each driver and is, therefore, suitable for arbitration lines. The separate driver disable pins (En) feature internal pull ups and may be left open if not required. On the other hand, the DS3896 provides high package density for data/address lines.

The open collector drivers generate precise trapezoidal waveforms, which are relatively independent of capacitive loading conditions on the outputs. This significantly reduces noise coupling to adjacent lines. In addition, the receivers use a low pass filter in conjunction with a high speed comparator, to further enhance the noise immunity and provide equal rejection to both negative and positive going noise pulses on the bus.

To minimize bus loading, these devices also feature a schottky diode in series with the open collector output that isolates the driver output capacitance in the disabled state. The output low voltage is typically "1V" and the output high level is intended to be 2V. This is achieved by terminating the bus with a pull up resistor to 2V at both ends. The device can drive an equivalent DC load of 18.5 Ohm (or greater) in the above configuration.

These signalling requirements, including a 1 volt signal swing, low output capacitance and precise receiver thresholds are referred to as Bus Transceiver Logic (BTL).

• 8 bit DS3896 transceiver provides high package density
• 4 bit DS3897 transceiver provides separate driver input and receiver output pins
• BTL compatible
• Less than 5 pF output capacitance for minimal bus loading
• 1 Volt bus signal swing reduces power consumption
• Trapezoidal driver waveforms (t_r, t_f [Approximately_Equals] 6 ns typical) reduce noise coupling to adjacent lines
• Temperature insensitive receiver thresholds track the bus logic high level to maximize noise immunity in both high and low states
• Guaranteed A.C. specifications on noise immunity and propagation delay over the specified temperature and supply voltage range
• Open collector driver output allows wire-or connection
• Advanced low power schottky technology
• Glitch free power up/down protection on driver and receiver outputs
• TTL compatible driver and control inputs and receiver outputs