Electronic Design

Hybrid Circuits Optimize Gate Drive and Protect High Power IGBT Modules

Local power that is available for protection circuits, such as desaturation detection. Among the disadvantages of this type of driver are the cost, complexity and board space required for all the ...
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 ...
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

Single-MOSFET circuits gate & modulate

Discrete small-signal MOSFETs still find uses today, and this Design Idea presents two simple examples: an AND gate, and an amplitude modulator. Figure 1 shows a standard two-input AND gate along with ...
Electronic Design

Simple Circuit Overcomes MOSFET Gate-Threshold Voltage Challenge

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. In some situations, it becomes necessary to drive a MOSFET (or IGBT) with a voltage that’s lower than its ...