Half-Bridges Simplify Inverter-Driven Motor Drive Design
Power Integrations’ BridgeSwitch-2 expands available output to 746 W, improves inverter efficiency to 99%, and reduces sleep-mode consumption to below 10 mW.
Able to dramatically simplify the creation of high-voltage, inverter-driven, one- or three-phase PM or BLDC motor drives, the BridgeSwitch-2 family of half-bridges from Power Integrations combine two high-voltage, N-channel power FREDFETs with low- and high-side drivers in a single small-outline package.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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