H-Bridge growing pains What MosFets to use

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howdoesthatworkguy

Joined Jul 23, 2007
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I am building a decoder for my model railroad. It basically users a Microchip PIC and decodes a single from a power supply/command station. Which in turn allows me to control each train independently. This is all called Digital Command Control or DCC. The problem I have is trying to figure out what MosFets to use in the H-Bridge. Trains have a typical 12V CAN motor. Up to
2A and should not have any noise from the motor. By what I have read I need to make sure it can switch above 20KHz right ? I have also noticed that I would not need to use drivers if I use Logic Level MosFets correct?. So if I use a typical H-Bridge then the high side is going to be P-Channel and low side will be N-Channel. But this is the hard part, the data specs from companies is where I get lost, I am unsure what type of MosFets to choice from. Also, I want them in a SOT3 package, or something in SMD because of space constraints. I was looking at the ZXMHC3A01T8 from Zetex because it was in a very small package as a basic H-Bridge. Others I had a look at were ZXMN2B14FH because it seems to have a low gate drive requriement. But the ZXMN2B14FH is an N channel, and I can't find its P Channel counterpart. Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
 
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