The design of a digital IC for thyristor triggering

Author

Pimenta, Tales C. ; Vermaas, Luiz Lenarth G ; Crepaldi, Paulo C. ; Moreno, Robson L.

Author_Institution

Escola Fed. de Engenharia de Itajuba, Brazil

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 Jan 1997

Firstpage

461

Lastpage

464

Abstract

This paper presents the functional description and the design of a fully digital integrated circuit for thyristor firing control in a 1 μm CMOS technology. The architecture is based on the equidistant firing method, which allows the change of the displacement between two consecutive pulses before the zero crossing of the AC power source that is used as a synchronism signal. The circuit is designed fully digital, thus requiring no adjustments and providing high reliability and low cost. In this paper the performance of the circuit is shown by the simulation results under different operation conditions

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; thyristors; trigger circuits; 1 micron; CMOS technology; DTC06 IC; digital IC; digital integrated circuit; equidistant firing method; thyristor firing control; thyristor triggering; AC generators; CMOS technology; Counting circuits; Delay; Digital integrated circuits; Microprocessors; Power generation; Pulse generation; Signal generators; Thyristors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, 1997. Proceedings., Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

ISSN

1063-9667

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7755-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVD.1997.568177

Filename

568177