Mosfet High Side Switch Circuit

This transistor connects between v and the load.

Mosfet high side switch circuit. Firsly in fig 4 6 13 the resistor r4 whose purpose is to discharge any remaining potential on the gate at switch off is now connected to the positive supply rail instead of to ground. For driving the mosfet in high side configuration ir2110 gate driver ic was used. The opposite of the low side switch is the high side switch. A circuit for a typical high side switch using a p channel mosfet is shown in fig.

While designing the ups circuits mosfet were used in the inverter circuits. I ve written a detailed tutorial regarding the use of ir2110. N channel p channel 15. Ir2117 for example is one driver that contains a single driver that can be used to drive a high side mosfet driver.

While you can use a jfet for this circuit an enhancement mode mosfet works better. The mosfets were used as high side switches in the circuit. However it just comes down to the voltage difference between gate and source. A high side p channel mosfet and a low side n channel mosfet tied with common drains figure 5 make a superb high current ªcmos equivalentº switch.

That s creating a low side switch. One fault common to such circuits has been the excessive crossover current during switching that may occur if the gate drive allows both mosfets to be on simultaneously. Ir2110 which is arguably the most popular high low side mosfet driver features a high side driver and a low side driver in a single device. Usually a p channel will be configured as a high side switch as i show here.

Ir2110 is a high low side gate driver ic which is used with power mosfet and igbt. In this instance the mosfet switch is connected between the load and the positive supply rail high side switching as we do with pnp transistors. Notice the similarities and differences between figs. In a p channel device the conventional flow of drain current is in the negative direction so a negative gate source voltage is applied to switch the transistor on.