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Fully digitised, quasi-continuous working gate-drive unit for 1200V-IGBTs
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Robin VOIGT, Karsten HANDT, Romy KNORR, Melanie ECKERT |
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Improving the performance of prospective inverters can not only be realised by advanced power semiconductors and faster signal-processing components on its own. Even the circuitry that combines all together opens up new possibilities. So, the gate-drive unit takes a central place in an inverter to increase power density and efficiency. This paper presents a digitised gate-drive unit for 1200V-IGBTs that works in a quasi-continuous manner. Its inner digital signal-processing is done by a FPGA. The publication describes the design, the implemented main features and the schematic functionality of this novel gate-drive unit. Furthermore, there is a summary of the potential to adjust the behaviour of the IGBT, the diode and the whole inverter. An outlook, which shows the major advantages of this gate-drive unit and their practically use for achieving the proposed aims, finally concludes. |
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| Filename: | 0718-epe2013-full-13012850.pdf |
| Filesize: | 525.2 KB |
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Last modified 2014-02-09 by System |
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