• half and full bridge chips

    From john larkin @21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 13 08:07:53 2025
    I'm designing some products that need 48-volt half or full-bridge
    drivers. Not just gate drivers but the whole thing.

    We tried the TI DRV8962. It has lots of voltage and current range and
    has four half bridges, but its shoot-through power dissipation is high
    and limits its frequency to about 200 KHz.

    We found the STSPIN958. What a goofy part number. One of my software
    guys wants to play with hardware so we got two eval boards, assuming
    he'd blow one up learning. His rig is a nightmare and he's shorted all
    sorts of things but it won't blow up. It looks really nice and could
    be an audio amp or a servo driver or a TEC driver. It's rated for 500
    KHz but he ran it at 1 MHz and it just gets a bit warmer.

    The slew rate control and adjustable current limit are slick.

    The data sheet is horrible and the eval board is very weird.

    Why do some europeans put their data sheets in strange order, like the
    table of contents somewhere near the end?

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  • From Edward Rawde@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 13 11:28:45 2025
    "john larkin" <jlArbor.com> wrote in message news:l3s5tjtkiu5mgf88ro6340cqtogi14nelg@4ax.com...
    I'm designing some products that need 48-volt half or full-bridge
    drivers. Not just gate drivers but the whole thing.

    We tried the TI DRV8962. It has lots of voltage and current range and
    has four half bridges, but its shoot-through power dissipation is high
    and limits its frequency to about 200 KHz.

    We found the STSPIN958.

    "Maximum output current up to 5 Arms"?
    Has to be a misspelling of Amps I thought.
    But table 2.1 does imply Amps rms.

    It's been a while since I used Si9978. No surprise it's obsolete now.

    What a goofy part number. One of my software
    guys wants to play with hardware so we got two eval boards, assuming
    he'd blow one up learning. His rig is a nightmare and he's shorted all
    sorts of things but it won't blow up. It looks really nice and could
    be an audio amp or a servo driver or a TEC driver. It's rated for 500
    KHz but he ran it at 1 MHz and it just gets a bit warmer.

    The slew rate control and adjustable current limit are slick.

    The data sheet is horrible and the eval board is very weird.

    Why do some europeans put their data sheets in strange order, like the
    table of contents somewhere near the end?


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  • From john larkin@21:1/5 to invalid@invalid.invalid on Thu Mar 13 10:49:34 2025
    On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:28:45 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
    <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    "john larkin" <jlArbor.com> wrote in message news:l3s5tjtkiu5mgf88ro6340cqtogi14nelg@4ax.com...
    I'm designing some products that need 48-volt half or full-bridge
    drivers. Not just gate drivers but the whole thing.

    We tried the TI DRV8962. It has lots of voltage and current range and
    has four half bridges, but its shoot-through power dissipation is high
    and limits its frequency to about 200 KHz.

    We found the STSPIN958.

    "Maximum output current up to 5 Arms"?
    Has to be a misspelling of Amps I thought.
    But table 2.1 does imply Amps rms.

    It's been a while since I used Si9978. No surprise it's obsolete now.



    For serious power, we use a gate driver chip and discrete mosfets.
    UCC27712 is nice.

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