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.