MOSFET N-channel

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I want to know what happend if you connect a N-channel MOSFET on the positive side of a load instead on the negative side of a load.How will it affect the Rds and what other problems would appear ?

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Best Answer

In general (there are exceptions for fast changing signals where the lumped element model breaks down) components only care about the relative voltages between their terminals. Given the same gate source voltage and the same load you should see the same drain source voltage in both cases.

The problem is that generating that gate source voltage just got much trickier. With a N channel mosfet at the low end of the load the source voltage is tied to ground and so it's easy to put in place a positive voltage relative to it. With the N channel mosfet at the high end you need to generate a positive voltage relative to a source pin that is potentially at very nearly the voltage of your positive supply.

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