Electronic Design

Hybrid Circuits Optimize Gate Drive and Protect High Power IGBT Modules

Local power that is available for protection circuits, such as desaturation detection. Among the disadvantages of this type of driver are the cost, complexity and board space required for all the ...
TMCnet

Toshiba Announces Sample Availability of Gate Driver for Bridge Circuits Driving High-Current Automotive Brushed DC Motors

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has started providing engineering samples of " TB9104FTG ," a ...
Electronic Design

Gate Drive Transformer Circuit Maintains Fast Turn-Off Time

This gate-drive transformer (GDT)circuit allows the drive signal to the MOSFET to range from 50% down to 0%, while still offering a fast turn-off that cannot be accomplished with a simple load ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Gate Drive Circuit Without A Speed-Up Capacitor for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor

A technical paper titled “Gate Drive Circuit Suitable for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor” was published by researchers at Nagoya University. “A GaN gate injection transistor (GIT) has great potential ...
EDN

Designing a low-voltage motor drive

Motor applications are on the rise, and the dramatic reduction in the cost of power MOSFET devices over the last decade, particularly MOSFET gate-drive ICs for low voltage (less than 100 volts) ...