The part is marketed as a "10 A" Half-bridge power module. Yet, the abs. max. rating mention 10 A as the unconditional switch node current, which would turn it rather into a "5-6 A" half-bridge module when accounting for realistic transient safety margins.
Currently, I am having difficulty during design to keep the startup current below 10 A in a 50 V application into a 4.7 µH inductor, even when carefully ramping up the duty cycle at fSW ~ 1 MHz. The current is often seen to peak to ~15 A for about 100 µs.
Is this "10 A" max. rating to be understood as a DC thermal destruction figure ? The datasheet gives no SOA for transient currents.
My gut feeling is that this is absolutely usual and even fine thermally, but it is a step over the abs. max. ratings, so I thought I'd ask here for an opinion...
