TPS7H5005-SEP: Are the NC pins floating metal?

Hey Lauren,

What do you mean by "contact area?"

They are floating metal but you can ground them in PCB layout as noted in the pin description:

Thanks,
Daniel

The surface area of the exposed metal is what they are looking for. They do plan to ground but need to document floating metal that isn't grounded internally in the IC.

Hey Lauren,

The requirement is to document metal that is grounded via PCB?
Grounding the pins would remove all the floating metal

Also of note there is a difference to us between internal and external metal here.
The pins aren't connected inside the package so a definition of internal floating metal would be required.

Thanks,
Daniel

I think they're meaning to say that they need to document metal that was originally floating, even though they do plan to ground it.