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UCC27517
UCC27516
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SLUSAY4C – MARCH 2012–REVISED MAY 2013
Single-Channel High-Speed Low-Side Gate Driver
(with 4-A Peak Source and 4-A Peak Sink)
Check for Samples: UCC27517, UCC27516
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FEATURES
APPLICATIONS
• Low-Cost Gate-Driver Device Offering Superior • Switch-Mode Power Supplies
Replacement of NPN and PNP Discrete
• DC-to-DC Converters
Solutions
• Companion Gate-Driver Devices for Digital-
• 4-A Peak-Source and 4-A Peak-Sink
Power Controllers
Symmetrical Drive
• Solar Power, Motor Control, UPS
• Fast Propagation Delays (13-ns typical)
• Gate Driver for Emerging Wide Band-Gap
• Fast Rise and Fall Times (9-ns and 7-ns
Power Devices (such as GaN)
typical)
• 4.5 to 18-V Single-Supply Range DESCRIPTION
The UCC27516 and UCC27517 single-channel high-
• Outputs Held Low During VDD UVLO (ensures
speed low-side gate driver devices are capable of
glitch-free operation at power up and power
effectively driving MOSFET and IGBT power
down)
switches. Using a design that inherently minimizes
• TTL and CMOS Compatible Input-Logic
shoot-through current, UCC27516 and UCC27517
Threshold (independent of supply voltage)
are capable of sourcing and sinking high peak-current
• Hysteretic-Logic Thresholds for High-Noise
pulses into capacitive loads offering rail-to-rail drive
capability and extremely small propagation delay
Immunity
typically 13 ns.
• Dual Input Design (choice of an inverting (IN-
pin) or non-inverting (IN+ pin) driver
The UCC27516 and UCC27517 provides 4-A source,
4-A sink (symmetrical drive) peak-drive current
configuration)
capability at VDD = 12 V.
– Unused Input Pin can be Used for Enable
or Disable Function
The UCC27516 and UCC27517 is designed to
operate over a wide VDD range of 4.5 to 18 V and
• Output Held Low when Input Pins are Floating
wide temperature range of –40°C to 140°C. Internal
• Input Pin Absolute Maximum Voltage Levels
Undervoltage Lockout (UVLO) circuitry on VDD pin
Not Restricted by VDD Pin Bias Supply
holds output low outside VDD operating range. The
Voltage
capability to operate at low voltage levels such as
• Operating Temperature Range of –40°C to
below 5 V, along with best-in-class switching
characteristics, is especially suited for driving
+140°C
emerging wide band-gap power-switching devices
• 5-Pin DBV (SOT-23) and 6-Pin DRS (3 mm × 3
such as GaN power semiconductor devices.
mm WSON with exposed thermal pad)
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