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Half-Bridge Mosfet Driver IC IRS2153(1)D Datasheet

Last Updated on January 1, 2020 by Swagatam 70 Comments

The post details the datasheet, specifications, pinout configurations and a few application circuit for the IC IRS2153 which is a half-bridge IC from Texas Instruments. The unique feature of this half bridge driver is that it does not have to depend on external logic sources for the operations, rather allows configuring its own oscillator through a simple RC network.

The IC IRS2153(1)D which is fundamentally a half-bridge mosfet driver chip can be actually used for a number of different interesting circuit applications such as boost converters, solar compact inverters, and if two of them are coupled can be even configured as a full bridge mosfet driver circuit. Let's learn more about this interesting device.

Main Electrical Specifications

Before we discuss the potential applications of this chip, let's learn a few of its main features first:

  • The chip is designed to withstand and operate with voltages as high as 600V DC (15.4 V Zener clamp on VCC).
  • Consists of an internal built-in oscillator circuit with a 50% fixed duty cycle, while its frequency can be simply determined through two external R/C components (CT, RT programmable oscillator).
  • Consists of a built-in high side driver network which allows a fail-proof conduction of the high-side mosfet (upper mosfet) with the required essential boot-strapped gate voltage.
  • Allows an external shut-down feature to be enforced just by adding an additional transistor stage with the IC (Non-latched shutdown on CT pin (1/6th VCC).  This feature can be very useful for applications where an automatic current or voltage regulation is crucial.
  • The chip also includes a Micropower start-up feature which assures guaranteed initialization even under relatively minimal voltage and current conditions.
  • An internal dead time feature ensures perfect separation between the outputs for fail proof operations.
  • All the the pinouts are ESD protected internally for safeguarding the chip against static voltages during packaging and handling.

Basic Circuit Configuration of the IC

caution electricity can be dangerous

Understanding Pinouts of the Half-Bridge Driver IC IRS2153(1)D

The figure above shows the standard circuit configuration of the proposed half bridge IC. The pinout functions may be understood as follows:

Pin#1 is the Vcc of the IC and is internally clamped to 15.4V for safeguarding the IC from high supply voltages.

The RC network made from RVCC and CVCC has two important functions, the resistor hleps to control the current to the internal zener while the capacitor provides a start up delay to the chip so that the outputs are able to initiate with zero logic until the built-in oscillator has begun oscillating.

The resistor Rt and Ct across pin#2,3,4 is the external RC network which determine the oscillator frequency (duty cycle being fixed to 50% internally).

The following formula can be used for determining the oscillator frequency:

f  = 1/1.453× Rt x Ct

Pin#4 is the ground terminal of the IC.

Pin#7 and pin#5 are the High and Low side outputs of the IC, meaning pin#7 drives the mosfet which is connected with the supply voltage while pin#5 is responsible for driving the mosfet connected with the ground rail.

Pin#8 is terminated with a Cboot capacitor which ensures that the HO and LO never conduct together and also steps-up the required bootstrapped voltage for the HO pinout of the IC.

Application Note:

The main application of this IC hovers around inverters and converter topologies.

One standard inverter application design can be seen in the below given diagram:

The simple inverter design shown above using the IC IRS2153 can be used for driving mains CFL lamps from 12V supplies.

Here the Cboot feature is eliminated because the configuration is an ordinary center tap type inverter which does not call for boot-strapped supply due to the absence of high side mosfet network here.

The transformer may be wound over any standard 27mm E-core type ferrite assembly, as shown below.

For the complete datasheet you may refer to the following post:

irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irs2153d.pdf

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  1. sanil says

    September 1, 2022

    sir pleese filament bulb /led light for ferrite transfomer rewinding + 200w inveter circuit denna

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      September 1, 2022

      Sanil, sorry I don’t have this circuit with me at this moment…

      Reply
  2. Mario says

    May 21, 2022

    Great information that I find here… but I have a super doubt, it is about the S21531D, such as “15.4 V zener clamp on Vcc”. If the voltage on the pin is higher, do I burn it?

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      May 21, 2022

      Thank you, and Glad you found the post useful. Yes the IC has an internal 15V zener clamp at pin#1 Vcc. You can use RVcc upto 100K so that the resistor does not burn at high voltages.

      Reply
  3. oscarelectronic. says

    March 24, 2022

    I want to know if irs21531d is equal to ir21531d and I also want to know if an ic with the same numbers and different sizes or sizes for example an smd is equal to an smps with the same number thanking you very much

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      March 24, 2022

      I checked their datasheets…. both the ICs looks identical to me with identical working specifications.

      Reply
  4. Jonathan Miller says

    February 14, 2022

    I am not totally sure how these IC’s work. If I increase the frequency is the pin output currents at 5 and 7 reduced?

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      February 15, 2022

      Current is not relevant since mosfets gates are used across the outputs. If you increase the frequency of the IC then the output frequency will also change accordingly

      Reply
  5. Jonathan Miller says

    February 9, 2022

    Hello, I made this circuit and am having problems with the mosfets heating up. I am using irlb8721 and a frequency of around 20khz. I am wondering if maybe my transformer is acting as a short circuit as 20 khz is on the low end for ferrite core any thoughts on this? Also with a dedicated half bridge driver are the 10 ohm resistors necessary between the IC and mosfet gates?

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      February 9, 2022

      Hello,

      I guess you are referring to the second circuit. It was taken from one of the reputed pdf articles online, and it seems the circuit is a tested design.
      Yes frequency does matter, and is directly related to the number of primary turns of the transformer. In that case you can try increasing the frequency by reducing the Rt, Ct values.

      Yes a low value gate resistor is recommended for mosfets even if it is driven from a dedicated driver.

      Reply
      • Jonathan Miller says

        February 10, 2022

        I have 3 turns on the primary and 95 turns on the secondary. It is thick wire which fills a ee42 transformer completely. Do you think this would be ok?

        Reply
        • Swagatam says

          February 10, 2022

          The number of turns should be exactly as shown in the second diagram, if you are trying to build that circuit. The number of turns cannot be judged, it will need to be either calculated or adjusted through some trial and error.

          Reply
          • Jonathan Miller says

            February 10, 2022

            Ok, with the original transformer what was the maximum watts?

            Thanks,
            Jon

            Reply
            • Swagatam says

              February 10, 2022

              The watt will depend on the wire thickness, and the overall size of the transformer, it will need to be experimented.

              Reply
  6. Nrupeshkumar Patel says

    November 23, 2021

    is Isolated gate drive half bridge inverter possible with this IC? Please give me schematic for inverter.

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      November 23, 2021

      No it is not possible, due to the bootstrapping.

      Reply
  7. Olusegun says

    September 27, 2021

    Hello Swag,
    Is IRS2153 the same as IR2153?

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      September 27, 2021

      Hello Olusegun, as per their datasheets they both look almost same with their specifications

      Reply
  8. Swagatam says

    July 15, 2021

    Please ask this question under induction heater article, I will try to answer!

    Reply
  9. Rajiv Divakaran says

    April 26, 2021

    Sir how many pairs of mosfet (Ex. IRFP460) can anIR2153 drive?

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      April 27, 2021

      Any number of MOSFETs can be added in parallel

      Reply
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