SNVS424D January 2006 – December 2014 LM5106
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The total IC power dissipation is the sum of the gate driver losses and the bootstrap diode losses. The gate driver losses are related to the switching frequency (f), output load capacitance on LO and HO (CL), and supply voltage (VDD) and can be roughly calculated as:
There are some additional losses in the gate drivers due to the internal CMOS stages used to buffer the LO and HO outputs. Figure 20 shows the measured gate driver power dissipation versus frequency and load capacitance. At higher frequencies and load capacitance values, the power dissipation is dominated by the power losses driving the output loads and agrees well with the Equation 12. This plot can be used to approximate the power losses due to the gate drivers.