Gate driver ICs accept a low-power input from a controller IC and produce a high-current drive input for the gate of a high-power transistor. The use of power transistors in various renewable energy systems encourages more manufacturers to use gate driver ICs. Gallium nitride and silicon carbide gate drivers are increasingly used, ensuring great power density and cutting-edge short-circuit protection. In this article, everything PE has listed some interesting Gate Driver ICs that were trending on the website.
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AEC-Q100 Qualified Gate Drive Optocoupler IC
The ACPL-31JT-000E from Broadcom is an Automotive Qualified Gate Drive Optocoupler that has been designed to offer fast propagation delay along with excellent timing skew performance. It requires an input voltage of 8 - 18 V and provides an output voltage of 12 - 20 V. This gate driver integrates MOSFETs, input and output drivers with active Miller control circuit, and protection circuits with a feedback loop. It is a fully-featured and easy-to-implement solution that includes smart features to protect the MOSFET during switching operations. This AEC-Q100 Grade 1 qualified gate driver consists of a direct LED input interface that allows for flexible logic configuration, and differential current mode drive having low impedance and negative gate bias, thereby improving noise immunity. Read more.
AEC-Q100 Qualified Single Channel Gate Driver IC
The PGD3162AM550EKR2 from NXP Semiconductor is an Automotive Qualified Advanced Single-Channel Gate Driver that has been designed to drive the latest SiC and IGBT modules for xEV traction inverters. It requires an input voltage of 5 V. This gate driver consists of integrated galvanic isolation, power management units, gate drive control circuit, logic block, 10-bit ADC, temperature sensor, protection circuits, and programmable interfaces. It has an integrated boost capability that can drive most of the SiC MOSFET and IGBT/SiC modules directly and can shape the capability of gate drive operation to improve the switching performance and reduce voltage stress. This driver IC uses either the SPI interface or GS Enable pins to control the gate strength and further improves the performance via independent operation. Read more.
Automotive Qualified Single Channel IGBT/MOSFET Gate Drive Booster
The 1EBN1001AE from Infineon Technologies is an Automotive Qualified Single Channel IGBT/MOSFET Gate Drive Booster that has been designed for automotive motor drives above 10 kW. It requires an input voltage of -0.3 V to 28 V. This gate driver has been developed to optimize the design of high-performance safety-relevant automotive systems. It is manufactured using high-performance bipolar technology and aims at replacing buffer stages based on discrete devices. This driver IC integrates an active clamping circuit ACLI that allows an external active clamping circuit to turn ON the IGBT in case of over-voltage conditions detected within the IGBT. It uses a DACLP pin to disable the active clamping function during run-time. Read more.
Non-Inverting Dual MOSFET Gate Driver IC
The MCP14A0454 from Microchip Technology is a Non-Inverting Dual MOSFET Gate Driver IC that is ideal for pulse transformer drive, line drivers, motor and solenoid drive, switch mode power supplies, and level translator applications. It requires an input voltage of 4.7 - 18 V. This gate driver integrates voltage reference blocks, diodes, logic gates, two MOSFETs, and internal pull-up resistors. It offers enhanced control with active-high Enable functionality that allows the Enable pins to be driven at low voltage levels, which in turn drives the corresponding output of the driver IC. This IC allows the user to leave the Enable pins floating using internally embedded pull-up resistors, thereby providing standard operation. Read more.
Single High-Speed Gate Driver for Motor Control and SMPS Applications
The DGD0280 from Diodes Incorporated is a Single High-Speed Gate Driver that is ideal for DC-DC converters, line drivers, motor controls, and switched mode power supply (SMPS) applications. It requires an input voltage of 4.5 - 18 V. This gate driver consists of a control logic circuit, voltage/current detection blocks, MOSFET, and a low drop-out (LDO) voltage regulator. The logic inputs integrated into this driver are compatible with standard TTL and CMOS levels, thereby making it easy to interface with MCUs. It provides both fast and well-matched propagation delays that allow for high-speed operation, thereby enabling a smaller and more compact power-switching design using smaller associated components. This RoHS-compliant gate driver is equipped with under-voltage lockout (UVLO) protection and a thermal shutdown (TSD) circuit to prevent short-circuit-related damages. It is available in a surface-mount package that measures 2.90 x 2.80 mm. Read more.
Integrated Gate Driver Photocoupler IC for Inverters & UPS Applications
The TLP5222 from Toshiba is an Integrated Gate Driver Photocoupler that is ideal for isolated gate drivers for IGBT and power MOSFET, industrial inverters, AC Servos, Photovoltaic (PV) inverters, and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) applications. This gate driver requires an input voltage of 15 - 30 V. It consists of two built-in infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) along with two high-gain and high-speed photodetector ICs. This TLP5222 is designed to provide a high current, control high-speed output signals, relay FAULT status feedback, and electrically isolate the primary side from the secondary side. It is equipped with desaturation detection, soft gate turn-off, active Miller clamp, under-voltage lockout (UVLO), and FAULT status pins to prevent false trigger and overload-related damages. This RoHS-compliant driver IC is available in a surface-mount package that measures 10.3 x 10 x 2.1 mm. Read more.
Integrated Gate Driver IC for Motor Drive & Audio Applications
The EPC23102 from Efficient Power Conversion is an Integrated Gate Driver Stage IC that is ideal for the buck, boost, buck-boost converters, half-bridge, full-bridge LLC converters, motor drive inverters, and Class D audio amplifier applications. It requires an input voltage from 10 V to 80 V. This gate driver uses EPC’s proprietary GaN IC technology that enables efficient integration of high-side and low-side eGaN FETs, input logic interface, level shifting, bootstrap charging, and gate drive buffer circuits. It uses robust level shifters from the low side to high side channels that are designed to operate accurately with soft and hard switching conditions even at a large negative clamped voltage and to avoid false triggers due to fast dv/dt transients. The logic lockout interface integrated into this IC commands both FETs to switch off when both the input signals are high at the same time. Read more.
Automotive Qualified Full-Bridge PWM Gate Driver
The A89505KESSR-J from Allegro Microsystems is an Automotive Qualified Full-Bridge Gate Driver that is designed to provide pulse width modulation (PWM) control for DC motors and actuators in conventional, hybrid, and electric vehicles. This gate driver has an input voltage of 5.5 - 50 V. It can be used to provide gate drive for all N-Channel external MOSFET bridge circuits. This full-bridge gate driver consists of a standard IN1/IN2 control logic to control the speed and direction of a DC motor with externally applied PWM control signals. It is based on a solid-state design that incorporates brushed DC motors to improve reliability and battery life. This gate driver is designed to minimize the external circuitry by replacing mechanical relays with solid-state drivers, thereby improving reliability. It provides crossover-current protection, MOSFET VDS protection, internal UVLO, and an adjustable current limit to protect against short-circuit-related damages. Read more.
ASIL Certified Dual-Channel Gate Driver
The 2SP0215F2Q0C from Power Integrations is Automotive Qualified Dual-Channel Gate Driver that is designed for driving IGBT switches. This plug & play gate driver has an input voltage of 15 V and an output current of -15 to 20 A. It has a rise time of 5 ns and a fall time of 10 ns. This gate driver integrates FluxLink technology to reinforce the isolation barrier between the primary side and the secondary side. It consists of secondary-side overvoltage monitoring (OVLO) system and uses advanced resistive overvoltage control (AROC) mechanism to initiate a soft turn-off under short-circuit-related conditions. This gate driver utilizes an additional active miller clamp (AMC) technology to clamp the gate to the negative supply voltage to avoid parasitic turn-on of the power semiconductor. Read more.
GaN Transistor Gate Driver for Power Supply Applications
The TD99102 from Teledyne e2v HiRel Electronics is a GaN Transistor Gate Driver that is designed to control the gates of external power devices such as GaN, HEMT, and power MOSFET. It requires an input voltage of 4-6.5 V for operation and provides switching transition speeds in the sub-nanosecond range for supporting switching applications of up to 20 MHz. This gate driver is optimized for matched dead time and offers best-in-class propagation delay to improve system bandwidth. The dead-time controller allows the timing of the LS and HS gates to eliminate any large shoot-through currents that could dramatically reduce the efficiency of the circuit and potentially damage the transistors. Read more.
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