11.1 Layout Guidelines
High speed circuits demand careful attention to layout and component placement. To assure proper performance of the UC2802x follow these rules:
- Use a ground plane.
- Damp or clamp parasitic inductive kick energy from the gate of driven MOSFETs. Do not allow the output pins to ring below ground. A series gate resistor or a shunt 1-A Schottky diode at the output pin serves this purpose.
- Bypass VCC, VC, and VREF. Use 0.1-µF monolithic ceramic capacitors with low equivalent series inductance. Allow less than 1 cm of total lead length for each capacitor between the bypassed pin and the ground plane.
- Treat the timing capacitor (CT) as a bypass capacitor.