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First Dual-Output Gate Drive Optocoupler

Avago Technologies announced a new highly-integrated smart gate drive optocoupler device, the ACPL-339J. The device is a 1A output current gate drive optocoupler with dual outputs optimized for ...
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Voltage inverter uses gate’s output pins as inputs and its ground pin as output

When analog circuits mix with digital, the former are sometimes dissatisfied with the latter’s usual single supply rail. This creates a need for additional, often negative polarity, voltage sources ...
Electronic Design

Designing Isolated Gate Drivers for SiC MOSFETs in Traction Inverters

Members can download this article in PDF format. Traction inverters based on silicon insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) have been the go-to technology for electric vehicles (EVs). However, to ...
Electronic Design

Gate Driver Adjusts Current in Real-Time to Boost EV Range

This article is part of the TechXchange: Silicon Carbide (SiC). At the heart of every electric vehicle (EV) is a traction inverter that converts direct current (dc) from the high-voltage battery into ...