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Vishay Siliconix
Current-Sensing Power MOSFETs
Kandarp Pandya
INTRODUCTION
Vishay Siliconix current-sensing power MOSFETs offer a simple means of incorporating a protection feature into an electronic control circuit and avoiding catastrophic failures resulting from overcurrent (overload) and, or short-circuit conditions. The device package is a modified D2PAK with five pins. The MOSFET termination retains the standard D2PAK footprint for a three-pin device. The additional two pins provid