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Isolated gate driver
A gate driver whose input and output sides are separated by a galvanic barrier built from magnetic, capacitive or optical coupling. It lets a ground-referenced controller drive a switch whose source swings to hundreds of volts.
- Also known as
- Digital isolator driver, Optocoupler driver
- Type
- Component
- Domain
- Power & Discretes, Gate drive and control
Notes
Common-mode transient immunity above 100 kV per microsecond became a headline specification once SiC arrived.
Related terms
- Gate driver
- Galvanic isolation
- CMTI
- Creepage and clearance
- DESAT
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