A new family of loss-less power MOSFET drivers

Author

Diaz, J. ; Perez, Marcelo A. ; Nuno, Fernando

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ingenieria Electr., Electron. de Comput. y de Sistemas, Oviedo Univ.

fYear

1994

fDate

21-25 Aug 1994

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

48

Abstract

In this paper, a new family of lossless drivers for power MOS control is proposed. As is well known, the MOS input equivalent circuit is nearly a true capacitor. A new strategy for recovering energy in this capacitor based on DC/DC power converters is proposed. The authors present analysis and simulations, using the AWB (Analog Work-Bench software) package, of this new driver as well as a comparison with a traditional circuit. Finally, conclusions and future work are also presented

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; circuit analysis computing; driver circuits; equivalent circuits; field effect transistor switches; power MOSFET; power capacitors; power engineering computing; power field effect transistors; power semiconductor switches; software packages; switching circuits; AWB software package; Analog Work-Bench software; DC/DC power converters; MOS input equivalent circuit; capacitor; computer simulation; energy recovery; lossless drivers; power MOS control; power MOSFET drivers; DC-DC power converters; Driver circuits; MOS capacitors; MOSFET circuits; Power MOSFET; Protection; Resonance; Switched capacitor circuits; Switches; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Congress, 1994. Technical Proceedings. CIEP '94., 3rd International

Conference_Location

Puebla

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2068-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIEP.1994.494398

Filename

494398