Device description and operation

L6743D

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To prevent bootstrap capacitor to extra-charge as a consequence of large negative spikes,

BOOT pin.

Bootstrap capacitor needs to be designed in order to show a negligible discharge due to the

high-side MOSFET turn-on. In fact it must give a stable voltage supply to the high-side driver

during the MOSFET turn-on also minimizing the power dissipated by the embedded Boot

Diode. Figure 5 gives some guidelines on how to select the capacitance value for the

bootstrap according to the desired discharge and depending on the selected MOSFET.

Figure 5.

Bootstrap capacitance design

4.4

Power dissipation

L6743D embeds high current drivers for both high-side and low-side MOSFETs: it is then

important to consider the power that the device is going to dissipate in driving them in order

to avoid overcoming the maximum junction operative temperature.

Two main terms contribute in the device power dissipation: bias power and drivers' power.

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supply pins and it is simply quantifiable as follow:

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Drivers' power is the power needed by the driver to continuously switch ON and OFF

the external MOSFETs; it is a function of the switching frequency and total gate charge

dissipated to switch the MOSFETs dissipated by three main factors: external gate

resistance (when present), intrinsic MOSFET resistance and intrinsic driver resistance.

This last term is the important one to be determined to calculate the device power

dissipation.

The total power dissipated to switch the MOSFETs results:

When designing an application based on L6743D it is recommended to take into

consideration the effect of external gate resistors on the power dissipated by the driver.

External gate resistors helps the device to dissipate the switching power since the same

resulting in a general cooling of the device.

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506070

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100

High-Side MOSFET Gate Charge [nC]

Cboot = 47nF

Cboot = 100nF

Cboot = 220nF

Cboot = 330nF

Cboot = 470nF

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1.0

Boot Cap Delta Voltage [V]

Qg = 10nC

Qg = 25nC

Qg = 50nC

Qg = 100nC

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SW

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SW

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