UCC27524A-Q1
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ZHCSC13A –NOVEMBER 2013–REVISED JANUARY 2014
Thermal Information
The useful range of a driver is greatly affected by the drive power requirements of the load and the thermal
characteristics of the device package. In order for a gate driver device to be useful over a particular temperature
range the package must allow for the efficient removal of the heat produced while keeping the junction
temperature within rated limits. For detailed information regarding the thermal information table, please refer to
Application Note from Texas Instruments entitled, IC Package Thermal Metrics (SPRA953).
Among the different package options available for the UCC27524A-Q1 device, power dissipation capability of the
DGN package is of particular mention. The MSOP PowerPAD-8 (DGN) package offers a means of removing the
heat from the semiconductor junction through the bottom of the package. This package offers an exposed
thermal pad at the base of the package. This pad is soldered to the copper on the printed circuit board directly
underneath the device package, reducing the thermal resistance to a very low value. This allows a significant
improvement in heat-sinking over that available in the D package. The printed circuit board must be designed
with thermal lands and thermal vias to complete the heat removal subsystem. Note that the exposed pads in the
MSOP-8 (PowerPAD) package are not directly connected to any leads of the package, however, the PowerPAD
is electrically and thermally connected to the substrate of the device which is the ground of the device. TI
recommends to externally connect the exposed pads to GND in PCB layout for better EMI immunity.
PCB Layout
Proper PCB layout is extremely important in a high-current fast-switching circuit to provide appropriate device
operation and design robustness. The UCC27524A-Q1 gate driver incorporates short propagation delays and
powerful output stages capable of delivering large current peaks with very fast rise and fall times at the gate of
power MOSFET to facilitate voltage transitions very quickly. At higher VDD voltages, the peak current capability
is even higher (5-A peak current is at VDD = 12 V). Very high di/dt causes unacceptable ringing if the trace
lengths and impedances are not well controlled. The following circuit layout guidelines are strongly recommended
when designing with these high-speed drivers.
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Locate the driver device as close as possible to power device in order to minimize the length of high-current
traces between the output pins and the gate of the power device.
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Locate the VDD bypass capacitors between VDD and GND as close as possible to the driver with minimal
trace length to improve the noise filtering. These capacitors support high peak current being drawn from VDD
during turnon of power MOSFET. The use of low inductance surface-mounted-device (SMD) components
such as chip resistors and chip capacitors is highly recommended.
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The turnon and turnoff current loop paths (driver device, power MOSFET and VDD bypass capacitor) must be
minimized as much as possible in order to keep the stray inductance to a minimum. High di/dt is established
in these loops at two instances during turnon and turnoff transients which induces significant voltage
transients on the output pin of the driver device and Gate of the power MOSFET.
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Wherever possible, parallel the source and return traces to take advantage of flux cancellation
Separate power traces and signal traces, such as output and input signals.
Star-point grounding is a good way to minimize noise coupling from one current loop to another. The GND of
the driver is connected to the other circuit nodes such as source of power MOSFET and ground of PWM
controller at one, single point. The connected paths must be as short as possible to reduce inductance and
be as wide as possible to reduce resistance.
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Use a ground plane to provide noise shielding. Fast rise and fall times at OUT may corrupt the input signals
during transition. The ground plane must not be a conduction path for any current loop. Instead the ground
plane must be connected to the star-point with one single trace to establish the ground potential. In addition
to noise shielding, the ground plane can help in power dissipation as well
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In noisy environments, tying inputs of an unused channel of the UCC27524A-Q1 device to VDD (in case of
INx+) or GND (in case of INX–) using short traces in order to ensure that the output is enabled and to prevent
noise from causing malfunction in the output may be necessary.
Exercise caution when replacing the UCC2732x/UCC2742x devices with the UCC27524A-Q1 device:
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The UCC27524A-Q1 device is a much stronger gate driver (5-A peak current versus 4-A peak current).
The UCC27524A-Q1 device is a much faster gate driver (13-ns/13-ns rise and fall propagation delay
versus 25-ns/35-ns rise and fall propagation delay).
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