What the complementary switch FET means on a dead board
The Texas Instruments UC2714DTR is a complementary switch FET driver — it drives a pair of N- and P-channel MOSFETs in a totem-pole or half-bridge configuration, handling the cross-conduction dead-time internally. If you're staring at a scorch mark near the output stage of a motor drive or a DC-DC converter, this is the part that likely took the hit when the high-side FET shorted. The 'complementary' label means it's designed to drive one N-channel and one P-channel device, not a pair of N-channels like a synchronous buck driver would.
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