To help meet the demand of widespread electrification, Microchip Technology has introduced a 3.3 kV XIFM plug-and-play silicon carbide (SiC) gate driver.
The mSiC device contains augmented switching technology that is designed to work out-of-the-box with preconfigured module settings to reduce design and evaluation time, Microchip said.
The XIFM gate driver features digital control, an integrated power supply and a robust fiber-optic interface for improving noise immunity.
Other features of the device include:
- Preconfigured turn on/off
- 10.2 kV reinforced isolation with built-in monitoring
- Temperature protection functions
- DC link monitoring
- Undervoltage lockout
- Overvoltage lockout
- Short circuit/overcurrent protection
- Negative temperature coefficient
The device is designed to streamline the designing, testing and qualifying of gate driver circuits in a plug-and-play solution.
