SLVSH38 November 2023 TPS61377
PRODUCTION DATA
The bootstrap capacitor between the BOOT and SW pin supplies the gate current to charge the high-side FET device gate during the turn on of each cycle. The gate current also supplies charge for the bootstrap capacitor. The recommended value of the bootstrap capacitor is 0.47 μF to 1 μF. CBOOT 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. A value of 0.47 μF was selected for this design example.