SNVS676I August 2010 – April 2018 LM5119
PRODUCTION DATA.
The bootstrap capacitor between the HB and SW pins supplies the gate current to charge the high-side MOSFET gate at each cycle’s turnon and recovery charge for the bootstrap diode. These current peaks can be several amperes. TI recommends the value of the bootstrap capacitor be at least 0.1 μF, and be a good-quality, low-ESR, ceramic capacitor located at the pins of the IC to minimize potentially damaging voltage transients caused by trace inductance. The absolute minimum value for the bootstrap capacitor is calculated with Equation 30. A value of 0.47 μF was selected for this design.
where