An application note from Microchip: Avoiding MOSFET driver overstress (PDF!)
This application note describes how to avoid MOSFET
driver overstress. MOSFET drivers are used in many
applications to drive the high input capacitance of a
power MOSFET device. MOSFET drivers are very reliable when used within their operating specifications.
Care must be taken, however, to control supply line
transients and power dissipation, and prevent latch-up.
It’s a decent article. Brings home the concepts that are easily ignored about seemingly insignificant inductances in power supply traces that become major magnifiers of the high speed transients that occur when driving hundreds to thousands of picofarads of gate capacitance in mosfets.