TPC6501

2001-12-18

4

Safe Operating Area

1

0.001

0.01

0.1

1

10

100

1000

10

100

1000

Curves should be applied in thermal limited area.

Single nonrepetitive pulse Ta

= 25°C

Mounted on FR4 board (glass epoxy, 1.6 mm thick, Cu area:

645 mm

IC max (pulsed) ♦

DC operation

(Ta

= 25°C)

100

µs♦

1 ms

♦

100 ms

♦

10 ms

♦

10 s

♦

IC max (continuous)

10

0.01

0.1

1

10

100

0.1

1

♦: Single nonrepetitive pulse

Ta

= 25°C

Note that the curves for 100 ms,

10 s and DC operation will be

different when the devices aren’t

mounted on an FR4 board (glass

epoxy, 1.6 mm thick, Cu area:

645 mm

curves must be derated linearly

with increase in temperature.