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1ED EiceDRIVER™ Compact - A new high performance, cost efficient, high voltage gate driver IC family

This paper describes the new Infineon EiceDRIVER™ family 1EDI Compact and its benefits for achieving higher power density in a continuously demanding market for cost efficient solutions. This new general purpose high voltage gate driver IC family includes four output current variants optimized for IGBTs, one variant optimized for MOSFETs and three additional variants with an active miller clamp feature for IGBTs. The new optimized coreless transformer technology ensures undisturbed operation at offset voltages up to +/- 1200V and a common mode transient immunity (CMTI) of output to input of 100kV/μs. It later shows performance aspects of the different variants and their benefits on a PCB. It is generally known, that the market of power electronics is driven by shrinking footprints, form factors and higher power density all the time. This statement is also valid for isolated high voltage gate driver products and companies in the solar inverter market start to ask for optimized driver products to reduce complexity. With the development of the new 1200V EiceDRIVER™ Compact family, Infineon is able to close this gap and provide a high performance but cost efficient and compact driver IC.

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• May 26, 2014