SC1205H
High Speed Synchronous Power
MOS!ET Driver
POWER MANAGEMENT
PRELIMINARY
ꢀeatures
Description
The SC1205H is a cost effective, High Drive Voltage,
Dual MOSꢀET Driver designed for switching High and Low
side Power MOSꢀETs. Each driver is capable of Ultra-
fast rise/fall times as well as a 20ns max propagation
delay from input transition to the gate of the power ꢀETs.
An internal Overlap Protection circuit prevents shoot-
through from Vin to GND in the main and synchronous
MOSꢀETs. The Adaptive Overlap Protection circuit en-
sures the Bottom ꢀET does not turn on until the Top ꢀET
source has reached a voltage low enough to prevent
cross-conduction.
u Higher efficiency (>90%)
u ꢀast rise and fall times (15ns typical with 3000pf
load)
u Higher gate drive voltage (8V) for optimum
MOSꢀET RDS_ON at minimum switching loss
u Ultra-low (<20ns) propagation delay (BG going low)
u 5 Amp peak drive current
u Adaptive non-overlapping gate drives provide
shoot-through protection
u ꢀloating top drive switches up to 18V
u Under-voltage lock-out
u Over-temperature shutdown
Higher gate voltage drive capability of 8V (top and
bottom) optimally reduces Rds_on of power MOSꢀETs
without excessive driver and ꢀET switching losses. The
high current drive capability (5A peak) allows fast switch-
ing, thus reducing switching losses at high (up to 1MHz)
frequencies without causing thermal stress on the driver.
u Less than 10µA supply current when EN is low
u Low cost
Applications
u Intel PentiumTM power supplies
u AMD AthlonTM and K8TM power supplies
u High efficiency portable and notebook computers
u Battery powered applications
The high voltage CMOS process allows operation from 5-
18 Volts at top MOSꢀET drain, thus making SC1205H
suitable for battery powered applications. Connecting
Enable pin (EN) to logic low shuts down both drives and
reduces operating current to less than 10µA.
u High frequency (to 1.0 MHz) operation allows use
of small inductors and low cost caps in place of
electrolytics
An under-voltage-lock-out and overtemperature shut-
down feature is included to guarantee proper and safe
operation. The SC1205H is offered in a standard SO-8
package.
Typical Application Circuit
2.5m
Vin 5-12V
2200uf
10u,CER
+8V
10nf
10
70N03
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
BST
VID4
VCC
BGOUT
OC+
TG
+8V
VID3
VS
EN
DRN
70N03
VID2
BG
VID1
OUT1
OUT2
OC-
CO
SC1205H
GND
VID0
1.5V,40A
ERROUT
FB
70N03
BST
UVLO
GND
TG
+8V
Rf
RREF
VS
EN
CO
DRN
70N03
Rref
BG
SC2422B
Ri
SC1205H
GND
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