SLVSH22A May 2024 – September 2025 DRV8000-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA
The gate drive current strength, IDRIVE, is selected based on the gate-to-drain charge of the external MOSFETs and the target rise and fall times at the switch-node. If IDRIVE is selected to be too low for a given MOSFET, then the MOSFET can not turn on or off completely within the configured tDRIVE time and a gate fault can be asserted. Additionally, slow rise and fall times leads to higher switching power losses in the external power MOSFETs. TI recommends to verify these values in system with the required external MOSFETs and load to determine the designed for settings.
The IDRIVEP and IDRIVEN for both the high-side and low-side external MOSFETs are configurable in register GD_IDRV_CNFG.
For MOSFETs with a known gate-to-drain charge (QGD), desired rise time (trise), and a desired fall time (tfall), use Equation 4 and Equation 5 to calculate the approximate values of IDRIVEP and IDRIVEN (respectively).
Using the input design parameters as an example, we can calculate the approximate values for IDRIVEP and IDRIVEN.
Based on these calculations a value of 6mA was chosen for IDRIVEP.
Based on these calculations, a value of 16 mA was chosen for IDRIVEN.