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APPLICATION NOTE1. GATE DRIVE REQUIREMENTS OF HIGH-SIDE DEVICESThe gate drive requirements for a power MOSFET or IGBT uti-lized as a high side switch (drain connected to the high voltagerail, as shown in Figure 1) driven in full enhancement, , lowestvoltage drop across its terminals, can be summarized as voltage must be 10-15V higher than thedrain voltage. Being a high side switch, suchgate voltage would have to be higher than therail voltage, which is frequently the highest volt-age available in the gate voltage must be controllable from thelogic, which is normally referenced to , the control signals have to be level-shiftedto the source of the high side power device,which, in most applications , swings between thetwo power absorbed by the gate drive circuitryshould not significantly affect the overall these constraints in mind, several techniques are presentlyused to perform this function, as shown in principle in Table basic circuit can be implemented in a wide variety of Rectifier 233 Kansas Street El Segundo CA 90245 USA HV
power device. Others can drive a full three-phase bridge. It goes without saying that any high-side driver can also drive a low side device. Those MGDs with two gate drive channel can have dual , hence independent, input commands or a single input command with comple-mentary drive and predetermined deadtime.
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