SC1218
High Speed
Synchronous MOSFET Driver
POWER MANAGEMENT
Features
Description
The SC1218 is a high speed, robust, dual output driver to Advanced Digital Timing to Filter Out Very Narrow PWM
drive high-side and low-side N-MOSFETs in synchronous
buck converters. Combined with Semtech’s multi-phase
PWM controller SC2649, one can build high performance,
versatile voltage regulators for next generation micropro-
cessors.
Pulses
+12V Gate Drive Voltage
Integrated Bootstrap Diode
High Peak Drive Current
Adaptive Non-overlapping Gate Drives Provide Shoot-
through Protection
Support Dynamic VID operation
Ultra-low Propagation Delay
Floating Top Gate Drive
Crowbar Function for Over Voltage Protection
High Frequency (up to 2 MHz) Operation Allows Use of
Small Inductors and Low Cost Ceramic Capacitors
SC1218 is built upon a CMOS technology which provides
enough voltage capacity to handle computer applications.
In addition, the advanced timing circuitry is adopted to
filter out very narrow PWM pulses at the input of the driver.
The latched UVLO and enhanced adaptive shoot-through
protection further enhance the robustness of the SC1218.
With integrated bootstrap diode, the SC1218 is offered in Under Voltage Lockout
both SOIC-8 package and MLPQ-8 3x3mm package. These
features further reduce the thermal stress and BOM cost.
Low Quiescent Current
Enable Function for Both Gate OFF Shut Down
Lead-free Part and Fully WEEE and RoHS Compliant
Applications
Intel Next Generation Processor Power Supplies
AMD AthlonTM and AMD-K8TM Processor Power
Supplies
High Current Low Voltage DC-DC Converters
Typical Application Circuit
VIN
Cbst
Mtop
Cin
1uF
BST
CO
EN
TG
Lout
Rdrn
VOUT
PWM
EN
DRN
PGND
BG
(optional)
Rvin
2R2
Mbot
VIN
Cout
SC1218
Cvin
1uF
Revision: October 14, 2005
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