SNVSC77 December 2024 LM5125-Q1
ADVANCE INFORMATION
The bootstrap capacitor between the HBx and SWx pin supplies the gate current to charge the high-side MOSFET device gate during each cycle’s turn-on and also supplies recovery charge for the bootstrap diode. These current peaks can be several amperes. The recommended value of the bootstrap capacitor is 0.1μF. CBST must be a good-quality, low-ESR, ceramic capacitor located at the pins of the device to minimize potentially damaging voltage transients caused by trace inductance. The minimum value for the bootstrap capacitor is calculated as follows:
where
In this example, the value of the bootstrap capacitors (CBST) are 0.1µF.