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Slope Sensing for Optimum Dynamic Gate Driving of SiC Power MOSFETs

2021· article· en· W3167390801 on OpenAlexaff
Wen Tao Cui, William Zhang, Jingyuan Liang, Meng Wang, Haruki Nishio, Hitoshi Sumida, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Wai Tung Ng

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Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSilicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceElectrical engineeringAlgorithmElectronic engineeringEngineering

Abstract

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To suppress excessive gate voltage swings during switching, a resistance is normally used to limit the charging rate of the gate capacitance (C <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">G</sub> ). Modern solutions, such as segmented gate drivers, can be used to dynamically control the gate resistance R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">G</sub> to minimize ringing while maintaining the fast-switching speed of the transistor. The timing or dynamic pattern of the gate resistance is critical in the optimization of the device and circuit performance. Traditionally, this gate drive pattern is obtained via a trial-and-error or iterative procedure. This paper proposes a method to automatically determine the timing intervals by monitoring the gate signal (V <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">GATE</sub> ) through slope sensing with analog filter and subsequent mixed-signal processing. The output timing indicator (T <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">SEG</sub> ) is then fed back to the segmented gate driver IC to achieve automatic adjustments of the dynamic driving pattern. The proposed system is able to determine the optimum T <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">SEG</sub> for dynamic gate driving. For the SiC power MOSFET used in our testing, segmented R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">G</sub> driving between 2.5 and 10 Ω does not hinder the switching speed, while keeping the undershoot of the SiC module to be within 1 V or 5% of the total applied gate voltage.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.216
Threshold uncertainty score0.593

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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