Highside switches can safely drive high currents into complex resistive, inductive and capacitive grounded loads in compliance with the harsh automotive environment. This increases both the A high side driver is one in which the switching element is between Vcc and the load. A low side driver is one in which the switching element is between the load and common. A selfcontained load such as a DC motor, solenoidrelay, light or LED string, can usually be driven by either method.[…]
