A totem-pole circuit driver for driving cascade-connected high-side and low-side power devices. The driver includes a high-side drive circuit and a low-side drive circuit that respectively drive the high-side and low-side power devices, a pulse generation circuit which generates a set signal and a reset signal respectively upon detecting a first edge and a second edge of a high-side input logic signal, and generates a control signal from a low-side input logic signal, a high-side potential determination circuit which compares a high-side reference potential detected by a high-side potential detection circuit and a reference voltage, and an event signal generation circuit which outputs an event signal in accordance with the comparison. Upon receiving the event signal, and upon detecting that the high-side input logic signal instructs to turn off the high-side power device, the pulse generation circuit stops outputting the control signal for a period of time.