Title :
Implementing power diode models in SPICE and Saber
Author :
Tseng, K.J. ; Foo, C.F. ; Palmer, P.R.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
Accurate simulation of power electronic circuits involving power diodes requires mathematically-based power diode models to describe the forward recovery and reverse recovery characteristics realistically. Proper implementations of these models have important bearings on their eventual acceptance in the industry. Practical implementations of a proposed model in widely-used versions of SPICE by hard-coding and by using user-defined controlled sources are presented. The discussion also includes an implementation in Saber using the analog hardware description language MAST
Keywords :
SPICE; analogue simulation; circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; power electronics; semiconductor device models; specification languages; MAST; SPICE; Saber; analog hardware description language; forward recovery; hard-coding; mathematically-based power diode models; power diode models; power electronic circuits simulation; reverse recovery; user-defined controlled sources; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Convergence; Diodes; Equations; Hardware design languages; Mathematical model; Power electronics; Power engineering and energy; Predictive models; SPICE; Semiconductor diodes; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC '94 Record., 25th Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1859-5
DOI :
10.1109/PESC.1994.349749
