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The pe29102 is an integrated highspeed driver designed to control the gates of external power devices, such as gallium nitride gan fets. Drive high voltage gallium nitride gan hemts with the most robust and efficient singlechannel isolated gan eicedriver ic on the market. Shown is a simplified diagram of the lmg34xr070 gan hemt transistor and its integrated gate driver. Gan ehemt drivers with switching speeds up to 40 mhz.
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