When designing a motor control circuit, it’s vital to determine how to deliver the high current required to drive the motor. Designers must choose whether to use monolithic integrated circuits (ICs) ...

The latest trends in electric vehicle and industrial power systems demand higher voltage operation and greater efficiency, but also greater safety of power system devices, write Vikneswaran ...

NXP Semiconductors is supplying a family of isolated gate-driver ICs to control the silicon-carbide (SiC) power switches at the heart of ZF Friedrichshafen’s next-gen electric-vehicle (EV) traction ...

Over the last few years, the automotive system has been going through an evolutionary transformation to make the car smarter and more fun to drive. At the same time, there is a time-bound requirement ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Traction inverters based on silicon insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) have been the go-to technology for electric vehicles (EVs). However, to ...

One common question asked when considering what gate driver to use for an application is: what is the peak current that a driver can deliver? Peak current is one of the most important parameters in ...