In modern automotive and industrial power systems, the increasing demand for higher power often requires paralleling MOSFETs. Applications such as electric and light electric vehicle inverters, brushless DC motors, DC-DC converters, power switches, and battery management systems typically require several kilowatts of power. This load can push a single silicon MOSFET beyond its thermal limits, necessitating the use of multiple devices to distribute the current and manage heat dissipation effectively. However, paralleling MOSFETs introduces challenges, including unequal current sharing due to variations in RDS(on), Vgs(th), and Q(g), as well as increased costs and PCB area requirements.

Join Chris as he examines how to optimize high-power designs by reducing the number of MOSFETs in parallel using the Nexperia CCPAK1212 MOSFET package.

Learn more: https://www.nexperia.com/products/mos...