This paper presents the problematic associated to the design of a complete motor drive, exposing all available and missing blocks at this moment. We proceed by dividing the power drive into basic functions – control, different power supplies, isolated communication, controller interfacing, current monitoring – and we present for each of these functions an implementation example. Implementation examples shown are based on high-temperature X-REL parts such as XTR26020 Isolated Intelligent Gate Driver, XTR40010 Isolated Two Channel Transceiver, XTR30010 PWM Controller, XTR70010 and XTR70020 Low-dropout Linear Regulators and XTR50010 Bidirectional Multichannel Level Translator. A drive solution based on the XTR26020, presented for the first time in this paper, is explained and compared against previous art. Main characteristics of the new linear regulator XTR70020 are presented, showing the best-in-class dropout voltage, which outperforms the closest competitor by a factor of three. For all parts featured, tests results at an ambient temperature up to 230°C (even higher in some cases) are presented.
In this paper we present the operation of the XTR30011 device, a high-temperature, versatile, PWM controller with in-specification performance achieved from −60°C to 230°C using a CMOS SOI process. The circuit features a voltage-mode PWM controller that can be used in Buck-mode converters as well as in Boost, Buck-boost, Push-pull and Flyback. Several functional features are implemented including duty-cycle limitation allowing cycle-by-cycle current limitation, hiccup short-circuit protection and complex functionalities for improved efficiency at low load currents. These advanced features for improved efficiency include automatic synchronous-asynchronous mode transition in Buck-mode, pulse skipping logic with adjustable threshold, low-power mode with capability to receiving the 5V converter output voltage. Efficiency in DC-DC converters operated at low load currents is dominated by switching as well as intrinsic consumption losses. The XTR3011, in addition to having a low intrinsic current consumption, allows reaching very good efficiencies at low load currents thanks to its functional features. We present here the operation of several functional features and experimental results across temperature of the efficiency in several configuration modes, and in particular for low load currents.
We present in this paper two new products for high-temperature, low-voltage (2.8V to 5.5V) power management applications. The first product is an original implementation of a monolithic low dropout regulator (XTR70010), able to deliver up to 1A at 230°C with less than 1V of dropout. This new voltage regulator can source an output current level up to 1.5A. The regulated output voltage can be selected among 32 preset values from 0.5V to 3.6V in steps of 100mV, or it can be obtained with a pair of external resistors. The circuit integrates complex analog and digital control blocks providing state of the art features such as UVLO protection, chip enable control, soft start-up and soft shut-down, hiccup short-circuit protection, customer selectable thermal shut-down, input power supply protection, output overshoot remover and stability over an extremely wide range of load capacitances. The circuit offers a fair ±2% absolute accuracy and is guaranteed latch-up free. The second product is an advanced high-temperature, low-power, digitally trimmable voltage reference (XTR75020). Thanks to a custom, 1-wire serial interface, the absolute precision and the temperature coefficient can be adjusted in order to obtain an accuracy better than 0.5% with a temperature coefficient bellow ±20ppm/°C. On-chip OTP memory for trimming of absolute value and temperature coefficient makes the circuit extremely accurate and almost insensitive to drifts over time and temperature. The circuit features a class AB output buffer able to source or sink up to 5mA and remains stable with any load capacitance up to 50μF. The XTR75020 has nine preset possible output voltages. The source and sink short circuit current always remains bellow 25mA. The quiescent current consumption is 300μA typical at 230°C while the standby current is, in all cases, under 20μA. Both devices are designed on a latch-up free silicon-on-insulator process.
In this paper, a compact isolated and self-supplied single channel driver module for operation at 200C (392F) is presented. It is aimed to drive a normally-on GaN device within a high voltage half bridge topology. The driver is implemented on a compact hybrid module. Two of such modules are then assembled on a dedicated half-bridge DBC with two GaN devices.
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