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Default High Side Driver - Interesting Tidbits

It appears the only valid data point for these power MOSFET's is the
"total gate charge", Qg. The capacitances listed are useless for
switch applications... their only value would appear to be if you were
designing an RF amplifier.

But here's the useful part...

Cgeffective = 2*Qg/Vg

This is the effective capacitance you must drive to reach your desired
Vg. (Caution, use the Qg graph, not anything in a table... Qg
increases with Vg.)

Even the schmuck-in-chief should find that useful :-}

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