JAJSB09K January 2010 – February 2018 LM27402
PRODUCTION DATA.
A finite amount of gate charge is required in order to switch the high-side and low-side power MOSFETs. This gate charge is continually charging the MOSFET gates during every switching cycle and appears as a constant current flowing to the controller from the input supply. The next equation describes the power loss due to the gate charge.
PQG is the total gate charge power loss, QGHS and QGLS are the respective high-side and low-side MOSFET gate charges found in the MOSFET datasheets, VIN is the input voltage, and fSW is the switching frequency.