Smart power device targeted to educational purposes

S. Fincoll1, W.R. Melo2, J.A. Pomilio3, M.I. Castro Simas4,5
1Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer – CenPRA, SP, Brazil
2Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer – CenPRA, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
3UNICAMP – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
4Instituto Superior Téõcnico-IST, Instituto de Telecomunicaçes IT, Lisboa, Portugal
5Instituto de Telecomunicações IT – Instituto Superior Técnico – IST, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

Tóm tắt

This paper presents the tools and methodology used to introduce students to the problem of smart power design, resorting to low cost standard technologies. The theoretical support is envisaged to provide the required knowledge to specify characteristics and performance of the most common blocks used in smart power and to develop skills to implement them in integrated form. Through design, layout, simulation and experimental characterization, the students were able, in 60 hours of one semester course, to experience different steps of a smart power design, from the basic switching cell to the final system prototype. A power integrated circuit embedding digital, analog basic blocks and HV transistor arrays is presented. Based on this PIC, different topologies required by power switches and drives, control and protection, for power electronics systems were implemented. Experimental results for one out of five completed systems implemented by the students are shown and discussed. This methodology was applied with success in a course offered to a small group of graduate students.

Từ khóa

#CMOS technology #Power integrated circuits #Circuit topology #Integrated circuit technology #Circuit testing #Routing #Costs #Code standards #Telecommunication standards #Circuit simulation

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