Two channel isolated gate-driver IC family

Further applications are 48 to 12V DC/DC converters, battery and electrical vehicle charging stations as well as smart grid and solar micro-inverters.

The EiceDRIVER family offers industry leading precision timing characteristics, seven nanosecond accuracy for input-to-output propagation delay and maximum three nanosecond channel-to-channel exactness, both across production and temperature range, enable the next level of power conversion system efficiency. The overall switching efficiencies of Infineon CoolMOS and OptiMOS power MOSFETs can also be increased by the EiceDRIVER source and sink currents (up to four and eight amp respectively).

The family’s robust integrated galvanic isolation is important for hard switching half-bridge configurations, both from input to outputs as well as between the output channels. Additionally, integrated reinforced input-to-output isolation provides vital electrical safety where needed.

The low resistive output stages of the EiceDRIVER product family reduce internal power dissipation to the minimum, thus the gate-driver IC can deliver maximum power to the gates of power MOSFETs. In addition, when the power MOSFETs are intended to be off, the low-ohmic output stages firmly hold the MOSFET gate voltage at zero, thus avoiding undesired spurious turn-on.

For best fit with application requirements, the new family of two-channel isolated gate-driver ICs is offered in different versions:

• Two output current classes 1 A/2 A or 4A / 8A source/sink
• Two isolation classes: functional or reinforced
• Three different packages: 5x5mm 13-pin LGA (functional isolation), 150mil 16-pin DSO (functional isolation), and 300mil 16-pin DSO (reinforced isolation).

Five initial products of the family can be preordered.