ZHCSUL8 December 2023 DRV8334
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The DRV8334 is an integrated 4.5-V to 60-V gate driver for three-phase motor drive applications. These devices decrease system component count, cost, and complexity by integrating three independent half-bridge gate drivers, trickle charge pump, and linear regulator for the supply voltages of the high-side and low-side gate drivers. The device also integrates optional current shunt (or current sense) amplifier. A standard serial peripheral interface (SPI) provides a simple method for configuring the various device settings and reading fault diagnostic information through an external controller.
The gate drivers support external N-channel high-side and low-side power MOSFETs and can drive up to 1-A source, 2-A sink peak currents. A bootstrap capacitor generates the supply voltage of the high-side gate drive. The supply voltage of the low-side gate driver is generated using a linear regulator GVDD from the PVDD power supply that regulates to 12 V.
A Smart Gate Drive architecture provides the ability to dynamically adjust the strength of the gate drive output current which lets the gate driver control the VDS switching speed of the power MOSFET. This feature lets the user remove the external gate drive resistors and diodes, reducing the component count in the bill of materials (BOM), cost, and area of the printed circuit board (PCB). The architecture also uses an internal state machine to protect against short-circuit events in the gate driver, control the half-bridge dead time, and protect against dV/dt parasitic turn on of the external power MOSFET.
The DRV8334 integrates current sense amplifiers for monitoring current level through all the external half-bridges using a low-side shunt resistor. The gain setting of the current sense amplifier can be adjusted through SPI commands.
In addition to the high level of device integration, the DRV8334 provides a wide range of integrated protection features. These features include power supply undervoltage lockout (PVDD UV), regulator undervoltage lockout (GVDDUV), VDS overcurrent monitoring (VCP), RSENSE over current monitoring (SNS_OCP), and overtemperature shutdown (OTW and OTSD). Fault events are indicated by the nFAULT pin.