SLUSDG3F August 2018 – September 2024
PRODUCTION DATA
- 1
- 1 Features
- 2 Applications
- 3 Description
- 4 Pin Configuration and Functions
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5 Specifications
- 5.1 Absolute Maximum Ratings
- 5.2 ESD Ratings (Automotive)
- 5.3 Recommended Operating Conditions
- 5.4 Thermal Information
- 5.5 Power Ratings
- 5.6 Insulation Specifications
- 5.7 Safety Limiting Values
- 5.8 Electrical Characteristics
- 5.9 Timing Requirements
- 5.10 Switching Characteristics
- 5.11 Insulation Characteristics Curves
- 5.12 Typical Characteristics
- 6 Parameter Measurement Information
- 7 Detailed Description
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8 Application and Implementation
- 8.1 Application Information
- 8.2
Typical Application
- 8.2.1 Design Requirements
- 8.2.2 Detailed Design Procedure
- 8.2.3 Application Curves
- 9 Power Supply Recommendations
- 10Layout
- 11Device and Documentation Support
- 12Revision History
- 13Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information
8.2.2.3 Gate Driver Output Resistor
The external gate driver resistors, RON/ROFF, are used to:
- Limit ringing caused by parasitic inductances/capacitances.
- Limit ringing caused by high voltage/current switching dv/dt, di/dt, and body-diode reverse recovery.
- Fine-tune gate drive strength, i.e. peak sink and source current to optimize the switching loss.
- Reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI).
As mentioned in Section 7.3.4, the UCC21530-Q1 has a pull-up structure with a P-channel MOSFET and an additional pull-up N-channel MOSFET in parallel. The combined peak source current is 4 A. Therefore, the peak source current can be predicted with:
where
- RON: External turn-on resistance,RON=2.2 Ω in this example;.
- RGFET_INT: Power transistor internal gate resistance, found in the power transistor datasheet.
- IO+ = Peak source current – The minimum value between 4 A, the gate driver peak source current, and the calculated value based on the gate drive loop resistance.
In this example:
Therefore, the driver peak source current is 2.4 A for each channel. Similarly, the peak sink current can be calculated with:
where
- ROFF: External turn-off resistance, ROFF=0 in this example;
- VGDF: The anti-parallel diode forward voltage drop which is in series with ROFF. The diode in this example is an MSS1P4.
- IO-: Peak sink current – the minimum value between 6 A, the gate driver peak sink current, and the calculated value based on the gate drive loop resistance.
In this example,
Therefore, the driver peak sink current is 3.5 A for each channel.
Importantly, the estimated peak current is also influenced by PCB layout and load capacitance. Parasitic inductance in the gate driver loop can slow down the peak gate drive current and introduce overshoot and undershoot. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that the gate driver loop should be minimized. On the other hand, the peak source/sink current is dominated by loop parasitics when the load capacitance (CISS) of the power transistor is very small (typically less than 1 nF), because the rising and falling time is too small and close to the parasitic ringing period.