SLUSG21A May 2025 – September 2025 UCC25661
PRODUCTION DATA
During LF burst off period, power consumed by the high-side gate driver from the HB pin must be drawn from CBOOT and causes the bootstrap capacitor voltage to decay. At the start of the next burst period there must be sufficient voltage remaining on CBOOT to power the high-side gate driver (HO) until the conduction period of the low-side gate driver (LO) allows it to be replenished from CVCCP. The power consumed by the high-side driver during this burst off period will therefore have a direct impact on the size and cost of capacitors that must be connected to HB and VCCP.
Assume the system has a maximum burst off period of 150ms and the bootstrap diode has a forward voltage drop of 1V. Target a minimum bootstrap voltage of 8V to avoid UVLO fault. The maximum allowable voltage drop on the boot capacitor is:
Boot capacitor can then be sized:
Choose a low leakage, low-ESR ceramic capacitor. Derating of ceramic capacitors with DC-bias voltage must be considered using the manufacturer data sheet while selecting the capacitors.