General Description
The MIC2588 and the MIC2594 are single-channel, negative-voltage hot swap controllers designed to address the need for safe insertion and removal of circuit boards into “live” high-voltage system backplanes, while using very few external components. The MIC2588 and the MIC2594 are each available in an 8-pin SOIC package and work in conjunction with an external N-Channel MOSFET for which the gate drive is controlled to provide inrush current limiting and output voltage slew-rate control. Overcurrent fault protection is also provided and includes a programmable overcurrent threshold. During an output overload condition, a constantcurrent regulation loop is engaged to ensure that the system power supply maintains regulation.

Features
• MIC2588:
    Pin-for-pin functional equivalent to the
    LT1640/LT1640A/LT4250
• Provides safe insertion and removal from live –48V (nominal) backplanes
• Operates from –19V to –80V
• Electronic circuit breaker function
• Built-in 400µs “nuisance-trip” delay (tFLT)
• Regulated maximum output current into faults
• Programmable inrush current limiting
• Fast response to short circuit conditions (< 1µs)
• Programmable undervoltage and overvoltage lockouts (MIC2588-xBM)
• Programmable UVLO hysteresis (MIC2594-xBM)
• Fault reporting:
    Active-HIGH (-1BM) and Active-LOW (-2BM)
    Power-Good output signal

Applications
• Central office switching
• –48V power distribution
• Distributed power systems
• Server Networks