The pad in center of TCA9509 QFN package

Terry Wu83110

Prodigy 620 points

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all,

would you please help to check whether the pad in the center of QNF package TCA9509 need to connect to GND or just NC?

thanks

over 10 years ago

0 Emrys Maier over 10 years ago

TI__Guru* 97046 points

Moving to I2C apps forum for support.

0 Jonathan Valdez over 10 years ago

TI__Genius 16510 points

Hello Terry,

The PAD should be connected to ground. Typically this is because the ground plane is a large solid piece of copper, providing the largest area for thermal dissipation. You should provide a copper pad for the thermal pad, and then have several VIAs to the ground plan on your board if possible.