low side and high side drivers

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Hi,
what does one mean when he says low side driver and high side driver.
 

Usually low side driver is NMOS and high side driver is PMOS.
 

fuzzy_boy,
If you define Qh as the transistor that supplies the more positive voltage to a load, and Ql as the transistor that supplies the more negative voltage to a load, then the circuit that turns Qh on (or off) is called the high side driver, and the circuit that turns Ql on (or off) is called the low side driver.
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Kral
 

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