175°C junction — under-hood thermal headroom
The wide temperature range also means the Rds(on) will roughly double at 175°C — budget for that in your worst-case conduction loss calculation. Gate charge is 130 nC max at 10 V, and input capacitance is 3160 pF at 25 V drain-source. That Qg figure tells the gate-driver designer the switching energy per cycle — at 100 kHz, the average gate current is about 13 mA, well within a standard driver's capability.
TO-263-3 — footprint and thermal reality
Packaged in a TO-263-3 (D²Pak) surface-mount case with two leads plus the drain tab — the supplier device package is PG-TO263-3-2. The tab is the primary thermal path: a 1-inch-square copper pad on the PCB with vias to an internal plane gets the junction-to-ambient resistance down to a usable level for the 210 W power dissipation rating.
