Title :
Practical Considerations on the Gate Drive Implementation for Three-Level Voltage Source Inverters
Author :
Padilha, F.J.C. ; Suemitsu, W.I. ; Bellar, M.D. ; Luorenco, P.M.
Author_Institution :
Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro
Abstract :
This paper presents a new hardware implementation of gate drive circuits based on the charge-pump technique, which allows independent trigger and long turn-on time of the power switches. The proposed circuit is applied to low power neutral-point clamped multilevel inverters (NPC) with MGDs (MOS-gate driver ICs). Experimental results of a laboratory prototype are presented and demonstrate the validity of the design method
Keywords :
MOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; invertors; switching convertors; MOS-gate driver IC; charge-pump technique; gate drive circuit implementation; neutral-point clamped multilevel inverters; power switches; three-level voltage source inverters; triggers; Charge pumps; Diodes; Driver circuits; Power supplies; Protection; Pulse width modulation inverters; Switched capacitor circuits; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0496-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.2006.295656
