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12 years ago

What's SENSE_PAD SNS RSNS in DC-DC converter's Schematic in reference design

I looked some reference design of ALTERA , and in the Power supply part (DC-DC converter) appear a component SENSE_PAD , but when I checked the BOM file, It doesn't appear in the list of components, ...
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12 years ago

Without looking at the schematic in question, I would say the sense pad is probably just a special layout structure for the DC-DC converter.

Typically these have a sense circuit to detect that the output is at the voltage specified, and may have specific layout requirements that they wanted to capture. I would look at the datasheet for the DC-DC.

Pete