Electronic Design

Hybrid Circuits Optimize Gate Drive and Protect High Power IGBT Modules

High power IGBT modules employ hybrid IC gate drives including protection circuits that implement desaturation detection or real time control. ERIC R. MOTTO Powerex Inc. High power IGBT module ...
EDN

Detect wire breaks with unusual CMOS gate circuit

CMOS devices have large input impedance with input currents on the order of 0.01nA. Adding feedback circuitry can result in a latch-like device that can be used to store bits, and also operate in a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Gate Drive Circuit Without A Speed-Up Capacitor for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor

A technical paper titled “Gate Drive Circuit Suitable for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor” was published by researchers at Nagoya University. “A GaN gate injection transistor (GIT) has great potential ...
EDN

Creating A Full Adder Circuit Using NAND Gates

How do you create a full adder using nand gates? A Full-adder circuit adds three one-bit binary numbers (A, B, Cin) and outputs two one-bit binary numbers, a Sum (S) and a carry (Cout). It is usually ...