Like it sounds this is a circuit that switches the high side or positive voltage to a load.
Pmos high side switch circuit.
A simple high side load switch circuit from nxp the nx3p190 integrates a p channel mosfet along with the level shifting and slew rate control circuitry.
This tutorial will explore the use of a p channel and n channel mosfets as a power switch and general transistor theory.
A useful circuit to have in designer s toolbox is the high side switch.
This voltage means the mosfet is turned off or an open.
That means the vgs is 5v 5v 0v.
The gate is now at 5 volts.
The low side driver can be used to drive the low side mosfet of a boost converter.
The ucc27200 1 is designed to drive both high side and low side switches.
The voltage input though can handle voltages from 1 1 to 3.
So the vgs in this case is 0 volts.
For driving the mosfet in high side configuration ir2110 gate driver ic was used.
Ucc27200 1 shown in fig.
This switch will operate on the positive side of a power supply with a negative common.
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.
This is for use with 5 volt micro controllers such as arduino.
A gate driver is a specially designed circuit that is used to drive the gate of mosfet or igbt in high side switching.
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.
An external capacitor and diode provides the bootstrap circuit for the high side mosfet used in a buck converter.
Ir2110 is a high low side gate driver ic which is used with power mosfet and igbt.
N channel p channel 15.
Now this is the same circuit but the gate is connected to ground instead of 5 volts.
The source is also at 5 volts.
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.
The mosfets were used as high side switches in the circuit.