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Design and Application Guide of Bootstrap Circuit for High-Voltage Gate-Drive IC

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a systematic approach to design high-performance bootstrap gate drive circuits for high-frequency, high-power, and high-efficiency switching applications ...
Electronic Design

Use Bootstrap Cell Circuits To Generate Multiple Voltages

Bootstrap circuits are widely used in dc-dc converters to serve as top-side bias voltage supplies. After explaining how bootstrap circuits work, this article will show how versatile they can be. One ...
Electronic Design

High-Side Load Driver Enhances Short-Circuit Protection

This simple circuit adds short-circuit load protection to a basic driver such as the output of a simple logic gate, while allowing it to control a high-power load operating at a much-higher voltage ...
EDN

First 100V Half-Bridge Gate Driver

June 20, 2011 – National Semiconductor Corp. today introduced the industry’s first 100V half-bridge gate driver optimized for use with enhancement-mode Gallium-Nitride (GaN) power field-effect ...
Business Wire

15 MHz Half-Bridge Development Boards Use Efficient Power Conversion’s (EPC) eGaN FETs and High Frequency Synchronous Bootstrap Topology

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) Introduces the EPC9066, EPC9067, and EPC9068 development boards, which are configurable to a buck converter or as a ...