Electronic Design

Gate Drive Transformer Circuit Maintains Fast Turn-Off Time

This gate-drive transformer (GDT)circuit allows the drive signal to the MOSFET to range from 50% down to 0%, while still offering a fast turn-off that cannot be accomplished with a simple load ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Gate Drive Circuit Without A Speed-Up Capacitor for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor

A technical paper titled “Gate Drive Circuit Suitable for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor” was published by researchers at Nagoya University. “A GaN gate injection transistor (GIT) has great potential ...
EDN

Low-Side Gate Drivers: Review and Evaluation

This paper provides details of MOSFET switching action in applications with clamped inductive load, when used as a secondary synchronous rectifier, and driving pulse/gate drive transformers. Potential ...
EDN

How to optimize the gate drive design for high-voltage MOSFETs

Properly designing the gate drive circuit for high-voltage MOSFETs is essential to ensure proper performance from the MOSFET one desires. Far too often, engineers find themselves having difficulty in ...
Electronic Design

The Right Gate Driver Delivers the Right MOSFET Performance

As high-power MOSFETs present a significant load to their associated gate drive circuit, efficient operation requires the proper drive. One requirement for the gate driver in high frequency ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Releases New MOSFET Gate Driver IC That Will Help to Reduce Device Footprints

KAWASAKI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has released “TCK421G” for 20V power lines as the first product in its new “TCK42xG Series” of MOSFET ...
Electronics Weekly

Power design: Driving SiC and Si with the same gate driver series

The latest trends in electric vehicle and industrial power systems demand higher voltage operation and greater efficiency, but also greater safety of power system devices, write Vikneswaran ...
Morningstar

Toshiba Announces Sample Availability of Gate Driver for Bridge Circuits Driving High-Current Automotive Brushed DC Motors

Toshiba: TB9104FTG, a gate driver for bridge circuits used in high-current automotive brushed DC motors. The accelerating electrification of movable components in vehicles has increased the number of ...
Business Wire

Power Integrations’ New 3300 V IGBT Module Gate Driver Reports Telemetry Data for Observability, Predictive Maintenance and Lifetime Modeling

NUREMBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PCIM 2023 – Power Integrations (NASDAQ: POWI), the leader in gate-driver technology for medium- and high-voltage inverter applications, today announced a new, ...
Electronics Weekly

Here’s a different way to drive IGBTs

Most volume users of IGBT modules view the design of the gate drive circuit as a core competence, but now there is a a different approach to the design and deployment of power switching electronics, ...
Yahoo Finance

Microchip Expands its mSiC™ Solutions with the 3.3 kV XIFM Plug-and-Play mSiC Gate Driver to Accelerate the Adoption of High-Voltage SiC Power Modules

CHANDLER, Ariz., Feb. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The electrification of everything is driving the widespread adoption of Silicon Carbide (SiC) technology in medium-to-high-voltage applications like ...