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MOSFET Gate Driver with Isolated Logic Ground

Former Member
Former Member over 10 years ago

Hi,

 

I'm designing a board with a single phase inverter, three phase inverter and a buck-boost DC-DC converter (all driven with MOSFETS).

 

I need to keep the power nets separate from the logic/signal nets.

 

I've found a high side driver for DC-DC converter. This is suitable for the application as it doesn't assume common grounds.

 

I would like to use half-bridge MOSFET drivers for the two inverters (i.e. five in total), unless there are suitable full-bridge and 3ph ICs available.

 

However... I can't find a suitable IC because they all seem to assume common ground on the low side (i.e. connecting the source of the MOSFET with logic ground). I want to keep the logic/signal ground net separate from the power nets.


Question:

Are there any ICs out there that do not connect the low side source to logic ground? (1ph and 3ph, OR half-bridge)

 

Specs:

This isn't a high voltage application. The power nets have limits of (-25V, +25V) and (-5A, +5A)

 

As for logic and signals: logic is 5V; and power supplies rails are +5V, -15V, +15V and GND.

 

Thanks for your help!

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  • jw0752
    0 jw0752 over 10 years ago

    Hi Ben, Your question is way over my head but I did see a post on the forum from a company called RECOM that seemed to have a lot of things related to your question. Here is the link:

    http://www.element14.com/community/groups/passive-components/blog/2015/03/25/recoms-dcdc-book-of-knowledge

    John

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  • clem57
    0 clem57 over 10 years ago

    I am not sure of why you want this, but I see H-Bridge Modified Sine Wave Inverter Circuit | Homemade Circuit Projects.

    Clem

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