Automotive
Selecting MOSFET Voltage Margin for 48 V Automotive Loads
A structured way to select MOSFET voltage class for 48 V motors and actuators while accounting for real battery and inductive transients.
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Diodes & Rectifiers
Preventing Thermal Runaway in Schottky Rectifier Designs
Understand the feedback between reverse leakage and junction temperature, then screen Schottky diodes against the real thermal environment.
SiC & GaN
GaN PCB Layout: Minimize the Loops That Limit Switching Performance
A practical layout sequence for reducing power-loop, gate-loop, and common-source inductance in fast GaN converters.
SiC & GaN
When to Use Negative Gate Bias with SiC MOSFETs
A system-level guide to deciding whether a SiC half bridge needs negative turn-off bias and how to implement it without overstressing the gate.
Power MOSFETs
Reading MOSFET Safe Operating Area for Hot-Swap Designs
Learn how to translate an inrush or fault event into an SOA operating point and verify that a MOSFET can survive linear-mode stress.
Power MOSFETs
How to Tune a MOSFET Gate Resistor for Efficiency and EMI
A measurement-led method for choosing gate resistance without trading away more efficiency, voltage margin, or EMI performance than necessary.
Design & Reliability
Designing the PCB Thermal Path for Power MOSFETs
Turn package loss into a realistic junction-temperature estimate by designing and validating copper spreading, vias, interfaces, and airflow together.
Power Supply
Why MOSFET Coss Matters in an LLC Resonant Converter
Use output charge and effective capacitance—not one small-signal Coss value—to assess dead time and zero-voltage switching in an LLC stage.