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The resistor is over heated in my totem pole circuit

This is my totem pole circuit: It works well, but R32 is too hot. This is scope: I changed R32, R34to 470 ohm, but I got the same result: I think the resistor value is the problem. How can I fix ...
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Totem pole MOSFET driver does not turn off

I'm trying to drive a 12-24 V DC motor with MCU PWM output. My design is based on a totem pole gate driver First I use a voltage divider to provide the full-on gate voltage (10 V) for my power MOSFET. ...
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36V P-MOS - PWM driver circuit - totem pole - reduce BJT peak power

I want to use a totem pole BJT driver for a P-channel MOSFET. Various google searches brought me to the following circuit: In Olin Lathrop's answer to this question it is quite well described. pull-...
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Totem pole Bjt based Mosfet Gate driver

I need to design a totem bole bjt based gate driver for Mosfet IRF640, which is going to be used in a Buck converter. I know the peak gate charging current= 1A. I've already selected my ...
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Criticize Totem pole + Level Shifter topology

I'm designing a FET gate driver that allows 1.8V MCUs to control FETs up to 100kHz. FETs to be used will vary a lot so I'd like to have as much current drive as I can. I need it to be based on ...
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Why doesn't shoot-through occur on totem-pole structure?

I'm designing a totem-pole by BJTs in order to drive a MOSFET. I studied on several online examples and built up my circuit according to what I understood from them. However, there is a detail which ...
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