Electronic Design

Hybrid Circuits Optimize Gate Drive and Protect High Power IGBT Modules

High power IGBT modules employ hybrid IC gate drives including protection circuits that implement desaturation detection or real time control. ERIC R. MOTTO Powerex Inc. High power IGBT module ...
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Low-Side Gate Drivers: Review and Evaluation

This paper provides details of MOSFET switching action in applications with clamped inductive load, when used as a secondary synchronous rectifier, and driving pulse/gate drive transformers. Potential ...
Electronic Design

Optocouplers Support High Power, High Speed Switching Inverters

For inverter applications, such as motor drives, uninterruptible power supplies, switchmode power supplies, high intensity lamp ballasts, and induction heating, the gates of insulated gate bipolar ...
EDN

Microchip expands mSiC gate driver family

Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced the 3.3-kV XIFM plug-and-play mSiC gate driver to help developers implement silicon-carbide (SiC) solutions as electrification drives the widespread adoption ...
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Microchip Expands its mSiC™ Solutions with the 3.3 kV XIFM Plug-and-Play mSiC Gate Driver to Accelerate the Adoption of High-Voltage SiC Power Modules

CHANDLER, Ariz., Feb. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The electrification of everything is driving the widespread adoption of Silicon Carbide (SiC) technology in medium-to-high-voltage applications like ...