Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gate driver including gate sense circuit
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Application No.: US15896952Application Date: 2018-02-14
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Publication No.: US10574226B2Publication Date: 2020-02-25
- Inventor: Navaneeth Kumar Narayanasamy , Salil Chellappan , Apoorva Awasthy
- Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Tuenlap Chan; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Priority: IN201741005515 20170216
- Main IPC: H03K17/0812
- IPC: H03K17/0812 ; H03K17/0814 ; H02H3/08 ; H02H7/20

Abstract:
In some examples, a gate driver includes a gate sense pin and a gate sense circuit configured to couple to a node of a transistor via the gate sense pin. The gate sense circuit includes an overcurrent detection circuit configured to detect a first fault condition based on the node before the transistor turns on in a soft switching mode. The gate sense circuit also includes a Miller plateau detection circuit configured to detect a second fault condition based on the node when the transistor is turning on in a hard switching mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180234088A1 GATE DRIVER INCLUDING GATE SENSE CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2018-08-16
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