Intersil Releases ISL6614 MOSFET Driver IC

New Products Jul 06, 2004 by Jeff Shepard

Intersil Corp. (Milpitas, CA) released its new Endura™ ISL6614, a two-channel, synchronous-buck, MOSFET driver IC, which is designed for high-current, dc-dc converters used in a wide range of datacom, telecom, point-of-load and computing applications.

The ISL6614 can sink up to 3 A of gate current for synchronous-buck configured N-channel MOSFETs, and integrates a wide array of protection features such as pre-enable over-voltage protection, which becomes operational before the FET driver VCC exceeds its turn-on (rising) threshold. The ISL6614 drives both upper and lower MOSFET gates over a range of 5 V to 12 V.

The ISL6614 is available now in a choice of SOIC (ISL6614CB) or near-chip-scale QFN (ISL6614CR) packages. Pricing for 100-unit to 999-unit quantities is $1.53 for each ISL6614CB IC and $1.63 for each ISL6614CR IC. The ICs are available on tape and reel, and in lead-free versions (ISL6614CBZ and ISL6614CRZ).