Current-sense amplifiers

Maximize your system with current sensing solutions for protection, feedback control & system monitoring

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Whether you need to detect an overcurrent fault for system diagnostics, improve system power efficiency, or provide closed-loop feedback, our portfolio of current sense amplifiers delivers industry-leading current sensing accuracy across a broad range of common mode voltages and temperatures for any current sensing application without sacrificing cost and size.

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Benefits of our current sensing amplifiers

Low-drift architecture

Achieve low drift over a wide temperature range with our zero-drift architecture and precision matched, integrated gain resistors.

High accuracy

Increase overall system performance and efficiency with higher accuracy due to low input offset and low gain error, enabling lower ohmic shunts and minimizing power dissipation.

Wide common-mode input range

Measure common-mode voltages beyond your amplifier’s supply voltage rail (from 120 V to -22 V) to address high-voltage system needs, like batteries in electric vehicles and motor-control systems.

Flexible current-sensing solutions for your design

Achieve accurate and fast current sensing in every system

Whether you need to detect an overcurrent fault, improve system efficiency, or provide closed-loop feedback, TI's large portfolio of current-sensing solutions enables industry-leading accuracy for a range of common-mode voltages and temperatures – without sacrificing system size, complexity or cost. Through decades of experience, we have developed leading-edge current-sensing technology that empowers engineers to achieve maximum system performance, power efficiency and reliability.

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Current-sensing solutions

Learn more about many common and challenging functional circuits

Designers have various choices when creating precise current-measurement circuits for cost-effective applications. Read our e-book An Engineer’s Guide to Current Sensing to learn how to streamline the design process. The e-book discusses popular functional circuits and highlights our best devices for specific challenges. Additionally, it suggests alternative solutions for further circuit enhancements.

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An engineer’s guide to current sensing

Design & development resources

Video series

TI Precision Labs - Current sense amplifiers

Check out this comprehensive curriculum for current sense amplifiers. The series is comprised of short training videos that cover the basics of current sense amplifiers, tips for applications, debugging, key specs and more.

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Application brief

Introduction to Current Sense Amplifiers

Learn the basics of current sense amplifiers, including the different technologies, key parameters, and some introductory design considerations.

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E-book

An Engineer's Guide to Current Sensing (Rev. B)

Explore a comprehensive library of application-specific current sensing design challenges and how to solve them.

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DC Motor Drives

Optimize the performance and power efficiency of DC motor drives by using current-sense amplifiers

Precision current sensing enables real-time control with in-line phase monitoring in DC motor drives, servo motors and drone accessories to increase the level of control, safety and performance in motor drive systems.

Benefits:

Less than 0.5% full-scale error over –40°C to +125°C temperature range.
Support for up to 110-V common-mode voltage operation.
In-line phase motor control with enhanced pulse-width-modulation rejection.
High bandwidth and high slew rate enable fast out-of-range detection.

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END-EQUIPMENT / SUB-SYSTEM

REFERENCE DESIGNS

TIDA-00909 – 48V/10A High Frequency PWM 3-Phase GaN Inverter Reference Design for High-Speed Drives
TIDA-00913 – 48V 3-Phase Inverter with Shunt-based In-line Motor Phase Current Sensing Reference Design
TIDA-00302 – Current Shunt Monitor with Transient Robustness Reference Design

PRODUCTS

INA241A – -5-V to 110-V bidirectional ultraprecise current sense amplifier with enhanced PWM rejection
INA381 – 26-V, 350-kHz current sense amplifier with integrated over-current comparator
INA180 – 26V, 350kHz current sense amplifier

HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT

BOOSTXL-3PHGANINV – 48-V Three-Phase Inverter With Shunt-Based In-Line Motor Phase Current Sensing Evaluation Module
CS-AMPLIFIER-ERROR-TOOL – Current sense amplifier comparison and error tool

Collaborative and industrial robots

Precision current sensing enables increased power efficiency and real-time control in robotics systems

Design with precision current-sense amplifiers for real-time control in robotic systems with in-line phase monitoring in collaborative, industrial robots and mobile robots, increasing the level of control, safety and performance in robotics systems.

Benefits:

Less than 0.5% full-scale error over –40°C to +125°C temperature range.
Support for up to 110-V common-mode voltage operation.
In-line phase motor control with enhanced pulse-width-modulation rejection.
High bandwidth and high slew rate enable fast out-of-range detection.

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END-EQUIPMENT / SUB-SYSTEM

REFERENCE DESIGNS

TIDA-00909 – 48V/10A High Frequency PWM 3-Phase GaN Inverter Reference Design for High-Speed Drives
TIDA-00913 – 48V 3-Phase Inverter with Shunt-based In-line Motor Phase Current Sensing Reference Design
TIDA-00302 – Current Shunt Monitor with Transient Robustness Reference Design

PRODUCTS

INA241A – -5-V to 110-V bidirectional ultraprecise current sense amplifier with enhanced PWM rejection
INA226 – 36V, 16-bit, ultra-precise i2c output current/voltage/power monitor w/alert
INA180 – 26V, 350kHz current sense amplifier

HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT

BOOSTXL-3PHGANINV – 48-V Three-Phase Inverter With Shunt-Based In-Line Motor Phase Current Sensing Evaluation Module

DESIGN TOOLS AND SIMULATION

CS-AMPLIFIER-ERROR-TOOL – Current sense amplifier comparison and error tool

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

ASC-STUDIO – Analog signal chain (ASC) studio

Solar DC/DC Converter Equipment

Precisely monitor current in solar-powered systems to ensure proper operation and maximum conversion efficiency

In solar-powered systems, precise monitoring of current and the use of maximum power-point tracking in DC/DC converters and other subsystems enables system optimization to ensure maximum efficiency and performance.

Benefits:

Less than 0.5% full-scale error over –40°C to +125°C temperature range.
Support for up to 110-V common-mode voltage operation.
High bandwidth and high slew rate enable fast out-of-range detection.

Featured resources

END-EQUIPMENT / SUB-SYSTEM

REFERENCE DESIGNS

TIDA-01598 – Low Side, High Bandwidth Current Amp and Fault Detection for Solar Inverters Reference Design
TIDA-010042 – 400-W GaN-based MPPT charge controller and power optimizer reference design
TIDA-00332 – High Voltage 12 V – 400 V DC Current Sense Reference Design

PRODUCTS

INA241A – -5-V to 110-V bidirectional ultraprecise current sense amplifier with enhanced PWM rejection
INA2290 – Dual-channel, 2.7-V to 120-V, 1.1-MHz, ultra-precise current sense amplifier
INA4290 – Quad-channel, 120-V, high-voltage, high-bandwidth, unidirectional current sense amplifier

DESIGN TOOLS AND SIMULATION

CS-AMPLIFIER-ERROR-TOOL – Current sense amplifier comparison and error tool

Design & development resources

Calculation tool

Current sense amplifier comparison and error tool

This Excel calculator provides a comparison between two and five of our standard current sense amplifiers, delivering a chart containing the basic parameters of each device. This calculator also takes system condition inputs from users such as common-mode voltage, supply voltage, shunt resistor (...)

IDE, configuration, compiler or debugger

System configuration tool

CCStudio™ SysConfig is part of TI's extensive CCStudio™ development ecosystem and is a configuration tool that simplifies hardware and software configuration challenges to accelerate software development.

SysConfig provides an intuitive graphical user interface for configuring pins, peripherals, (...)

Simulation tool

PSpice® for TI design and simulation tool

PSpice® for TI is a design and simulation environment that helps evaluate functionality of analog circuits. This full-featured, design and simulation suite uses an analog analysis engine from Cadence®. Available at no cost, PSpice for TI includes one of the largest model libraries in the (...)