Kinetic Technologies, a company known for supplying Cyient Semiconductors and the leader in high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, has announced the KTS1642Q, which works as an automotive load switch and is highly designed to assist automotive electronic systems and comes in line with demanding electrical conditions defined by ISO 16750-2 and ISO 7637-2.
“Meeting automotive power transient requirements has become increasingly challenging as vehicles incorporate more sophisticated electronic systems. The KTS1642Q integrates the critical protection functions needed to help designers address ISO 16750-2 electrical stress conditions and ISO 7637-2 transient requirements while reducing component count, minimizing power loss, and accelerating system qualification.”
– Jan Nilsson, CTO, Kinetic Technologies
Modern vehicles expose ECUs to reverse battery, cold crank, jump-start, load dump, and inductive switching transients. The KTS1642Q helps designers build robust power architectures that withstand these events while protecting sensitive downstream electronics.
Operating from 4V to 40V, the device provides reverse battery protection to -28V, fixed 20.3V over-voltage protection, typical 360ns OVP response, 41mΩ on-resistance, 6A output current, over-temperature protection with auto-retry, battery detection, and fault reporting.
When used with appropriate external TVS diodes, the KTS1642Q supports ISO 7637-2 transient requirements while helping designers address the electrical stress conditions of ISO 16750-2.
Target Applications
- Automotive ECUs
- ADAS camera modules
- Digital video recorders (DVRS)
- Digital instrument clusters
- Infotainment and head units
- Wireless charging
- Telematics
Key Features
- 4V–40V operating range
- -28V reverse battery protection
- 20.3V fixed OVP
- 360ns typical OVP response
- 41mΩ MOSFET
- 6A continuous output
- Input ESD protection to IEC61000-4-2 (Level 4)
- Contact: ±8kV
- Air: ±15kV
- Other pins HBM: ±2kV to AEC Q100-002
- Fault Flag output
- AEC-Q100 qualified
- -40°C to +125°C
- 4mm × 4mm TDFN package
Part Availability
The KTS1642AQGDV-TR with active high enable and the KTS1642QGDV-TR with active low enable are available now.
About Kinetic Technologies
Kinetic Technologies designs, develops, and markets proprietary high-performance analog and mixed-signal power and protection semiconductors across consumer, communications, industrial, automotive, and enterprise markets, to deliver protected solutions tolerant of real-world fault conditions. The company’s products deliver solutions to not only provide, protect, regulate, and monitor power consumed by analog and digital semiconductors and other electronic loads, but they also switch, transform, and protect high-resolution video, audio, and data signals. Kinetic Technologies develops application-specific products that solve audio-video interface, protection, and power management needs across smartphones, tablets, and wearables, as well as serving a wide range of industrial, automotive, and enterprise solutions. Kinetic Technologies, a Cayman Corporation, has R&D centers in Silicon Valley and Asia, with operations and logistics based in Asia.
