UCC27517

UCC27516

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SLUSAY4B – MARCH 2012 – REVISED JUNE 2012

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

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Low-Cost, Gate-Driver Device Offering

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Switch-Mode Power Supplies

Superior Replacement of NPN and PNP

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DC-to-DC Converters

Discrete Solutions

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Companion Gate Driver Devices for Digital

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4-A Peak Source and 4-A Peak Sink

Power Controllers

Symmetrical Drive

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Solar Power, Motor Control, UPS

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Fast Propagation Delays (13-ns typical)

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Gate Driver for Emerging Wide Band-Gap

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Fast Rise and Fall Times (9-ns and 7-ns

Power Devices (such as GaN)

typical)

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4.5-V to 18-V Single Supply Range

DESCRIPTION

The UCC27516 and UCC27517 single-channel, high-

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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

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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-

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Hysteretic Logic Thresholds for High Noise

current pulses into capacitive loads offering rail-to-rail

drive capability and extremely small propagation

Immunity

delay typically 13 ns.

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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.

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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 V to 18 V and

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Output Held Low when Input Pins are Floating

wide temperature range of -40°C to 140°C. Internal

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Input Pin Absolute Maximum Voltage Levels

Under Voltage 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

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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

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5-Pin DBV (SOT-23) and 6-Pin DRS (3 mm x 3

such as GaN power semiconductor devices.

mm WSON with exposed thermal pad)

Package Options

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