diotec (Diotec Semiconductor AG)

Diotec Semiconductor AG

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Oct 9, 2025

Bootstrap Circuits Don’t Fail Dramatically

They fail quietly, and too often. No smoke. Just a high-side MOSFET that refuses to turn on… Sometimes once a day, sometimes once an hour.

Let’s zoom in on the scope:

  • A hint of ringing
  • A tiny gate dip
  • UVLO triggers

Then silence again. It’s rarely the driver. Usually, it’s the diode no one thinks about:

The one that charges the bootstrap capacitor a thousand times a second. At high dv/dt that diode becomes a noise source.

A little capacitance here, a little charge there and suddenly your “stable” design isn’t.

We built the SI02C120SMB to end that.

A 2 A / 1200 V SiC Schottky in an SMB package.

  • Low junction capacitance.
  • Almost zero recovery charge.
  • No bootstrap resistor needed.
  • No EMI ghosts in your gate signal

It just works - fast, clean, and repeatable.

In power design, stability isn’t loud. It’s the silence that tells you it’s right.