Microchip Introduces 600V Gate Driver Family for High-Voltage Power Management Applications

Microchip offers an array of gate drivers to support a wide range of applications from DC-DC power supplies to a host of motor applications, all while promoting high design flexibility, system ...
Semiconductor Engineering

PCB Layout Tips For Low Side Gate Drivers With OCP

Our 1ED44173/5/6 are the new low side gate driver ICs that integrate over-current protection (OCP), FAULT status output and enable function. This high integration level is excellent for the digitally ...
Electronic Design

Designing Isolated Gate Drivers for SiC MOSFETs in Traction Inverters

Members can download this article in PDF format. Traction inverters based on silicon insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) have been the go-to technology for electric vehicles (EVs). However, to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Choosing A Gate Driver For Silicon Carbide MOSFETs

If you are going to use a silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor) in your next development, you will ask yourself: how do I develop the best gate driver for it ...
EDN

Motor drive design: Integrated drivers vs. gate drivers

When designing a motor control circuit, it’s vital to determine how to deliver the high current required to drive the motor. Designers must choose whether to use monolithic integrated circuits (ICs) ...
Electronic Design

Isolated Gate-Driver ICs Handle Higher Voltage Levels in EVs

NXP Semiconductors is supplying a family of isolated gate-driver ICs to control the silicon-carbide (SiC) power switches at the heart of ZF Friedrichshafen’s next-gen electric-vehicle (EV) traction ...