A High-Voltage DC-DC Buck Converter with Dynamic Level Shifter for Bootstrapped High-Side Gate Driver and Diode Emulator

Considering the propagation delay, dVSW/dt immunity, and power dissipation issues in the bootstrapped high-side gate driver design, a monolithic high-voltage dc-dc buck converter with a high-speed dynamic level shifter and improved gate drive buffer is presented in this article. With the introduction of instantaneous dynamic current, the propagation delay of the level shifter is reduced to 1.13 ns...