Low-side drivers

Our low-side gate drivers enable reliable and efficient power systems
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Our low-side drivers help maximize the potential of your design by reducing switching losses, increasing your system's resiliency to noise and improving system density to enable an efficient, reliable design. In addition, our design resources, including videos, technical articles and reference designs, are available to support you through the design process. 

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Single-channel low-side gate drivers

Applications include BJT replacement, single-stage motor drive and single-phase boost PFC.

Dual-channel low-side gate drivers

Applications include gate drive transformers, synchronous rectification and interleaved PFC.

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Technical resources

Application brief

Low-Side Gate Drivers With UVLO Versus BJT Totem-Pole

This application note discusses the advantages of a low-side gate driver IC compared to the discrete totem pole and their performances at undervoltage lockout conditions.
Application note

Using a Single-Output Gate-Driver for High-Side or Low-Side Drive (Rev. B)

This application note discusses how single output drivers can enable greater layout flexibility and fewer parasitics, leading to optimal switching performance.
Application note

Benefits of a Compact, Powerful, and Robust Low-Side Gate Driver

This application note discusses the design parameters to consider when selecting a gate driver in switching power supplies and how they affect key performance metrics.

Design & development resources

Reference design

480W, <17 mm, Thin Profile, 94% Efficiency, Fast Transient Response AC/DC SMPS Reference Design

The TIDA-01495 is a low profile (17 mm height), 94.1% peak efficiency, high power density, universal input, 24-V DC, 480-W output, consumer AC/DC power supply reference design. The circuit consists of a front-end two phase interleaved transition mode (TM) power factor correction (PFC) based on the (...)

Reference design

Single-axis Motor Control Reference Design with Integrated Power Factor Correction

This refernce design demonstrates best practices for integrating both single axis motor control and power factor correction (PFC) into a single microcontroller. This practice is popular when designing variable frequency compressors, particularly for HVAC systems. This implementation is optimized to (...)

Reference design

Bidirectional 400-V/12-V DC/DC Converter Reference Design

The Bidirectional 400V-12V DC/DC Converter Reference Design is a microcontroller-based implementation of an isolated bi-directional DC-DC converter.  A phase shifted full-bridge (PSFB) with synchronous rectification controls power flow from a 400V bus/battery to the 12V battery in step-down (...)

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