Other Parts Discussed in Thread: UCC27211A
Tool/software:
Hi Team,
One of my customer is using UCC28284DRMR for their new project called Solar Optimizer. They have made 50 boards & out of 50 boards, 20 boards has gate driver failure.
We measured below impedance on each pin w.r.t pin 7. In Most of the cases Pin 2 gets damage & also affecting impedance of pin 1, 3 & 4 as well. Low side gate driver looks ok but not sure for the same.
|
OK IC - Fresh |
Faulty 1 |
Faulty 2 |
Faulty 3 |
Reference Pin |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
1 |
138.5K |
1.8K |
125K |
1.8K |
2 |
7.75M |
1 Ohm |
1 Ohm |
1 Ohm |
3 |
9.5M |
725K |
1.1M |
1M |
4 |
9.2M |
710K |
930K |
890K |
5 |
7.9M |
10.76M |
9.2M |
10.36M |
6 |
8.5M |
10.1M |
9.6M |
9.5M |
7 |
0K |
0K |
0K |
0K |
8 |
121K |
130K |
102K |
130K |
Circuit works up to 40V input (configuration - Sync Buck). Whenever they tried to icrease voltage beyond 45V, circuits works for 20 to 30 seconds & after that driver seemlessy fails & we don't know the reason. for the same. Duty cycle in most cases is 98.7% so majority time high side driver is on & very small time low side gate driver is on. After failure we observed that even low side gate driver is also no apperaring at output however impedance number looks ok for good device & damaged device.
After this we added small resistor (2.5 ohms) inseries & found that boards are working for 52V inputs as well after replacing the devices. But we are not confident if these boards will work or not. Out of 50 boards 30 boards without adding resistor with boot cap are also working for 52V input as well & hence we are not drawing any conclusion that solution of adding 2.5 ohms is solving issue or not. Customer will make another 20 boards with series resistor with boot cap & if all board survies then we can be sure that solution provided is ok for the long term.
We would like to know that why HB pin showing sort with ground? What could be the reason for failure of Pin 2? Is it -ve spike or voltage crossing absolute max. on pin 2? We haven't observed any of these two while testing.
Pls. help & share your inputs.
Regards,
Mitesh