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TIDA-00199: What is best way to create bipolar bias-supply for gate drivers of an inverter topology with more 10 switches?

Part Number: TIDA-00199

Tool/software:

Hello,

I am trying to design a board to test some control methods for a packed e-cell inverter topology (something like this)

I have been looking into the reference design above TIDA-00199 and it uses a single transformer for generating power rails for three arms of a conventional 3-phase inverter. The voltage rails for all the TOP IGBTs are isolated, whereas the voltage rails for all bottom IGBTs are combined.

But in my case, I don't have switch pairs as in full bridge inverters so how can I use this transformer or reference design in the above PEC inverter ..? Or is there any better way to create a bias supply for that many switches?

Or should I just use non-isolated gate driving? is there a reference design for this case?

I thought of using isolated DC-DC modules but in that case, I will be using one for each switch and that will increase cost and complexity ..

Thank you all,

  • Hello Younes,

    How much is the 'E'?

    TIDA-00199 has 4 channels of isolated outputs.

    In your SCH, it seems S3, S7 share the same emitter potential and so do S4 and S5; so they can use two channels.

    S1, S2 and S6 need other three isolated channels.

    So you will need to modify the design to add one more channel of isolated output, or simply use an isolated DC-DC for it.

    Best regards,

    Jerome Shan