> I use the TC4469. It is meant for exactly your type of application.
Unfortunately these work only down to 4.5V.


Bob Blick wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> I use the TC4469. It is meant for exactly your type of application.
> 
> Cheerful regards,
> 
> Bob
> 
> Richard Crossley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Been a while since I had to get my hands dirty and do any electronics design
>> so hopefully this will have an obvious answer.
>>
>> I have three lines of 3.6V logic that I need to translate to around 15V
>> levels, two of which also need to drive high voltage FETs so they really
>> need to be able to both sink and source to overcome the gate capacitance and
>> achieve reasonable (sub microsecond) switching times (I know 15V drive for
>> the FET is 'overkill' but there is a lot of legacy CMOS logic in the
>> system). The board area is very pushed for size so I was hoping there would
>> be some monolithic interface circuit that could achieve this rather than
>> discrete components.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard.   
>>
>>
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