Wolfspeed to Exhibit SiC Power at APEC 2016
Wolfspeed has announced that it will be demonstrating a number of its 900V SiC MOSFET products at this year's Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2016) March 20 "“ 24, in Long Beach California.
These include an evaluation board that enables power electronics design engineers to quickly implement the company's 900V SiC MOSFETs and an evaluation unit using high-performance SiC power modules for three-phase inverter applications.
"We're excited to offer the industry's first 900V SiC MOSFET portfolio, especially our exclusive SiC-optimised surface-mount packaged devices," said Guy Moxey, Wolfspeed's senior director of power products. "Our latest evaluation board allows design engineers to quickly and easily evaluate the quality and performance of these MOSFETs for themselves."
The evaluation board, which is currently available through authorised distributors, contains two 900V C3M MOSFETs with separate Kelvin sources configured in a flexible half-bridge circuit capable of prototyping a synchronous buck or boost inverter. This represents an optimal board layout, short circuit protection, and thermal management using an isolated heatsink to evaluate any 7L-D2PAK 900V Wolfspeed MOSFET.
Wolfspeed will also demonstrate a new high-performance three-phase power evaluation unit that reduces the development time required to implement SiC power modules in a three-phase inverter.
Using the company's soon-to-be released CAS300M12HM2 SiC power module and gate drivers, the evaluation unit provides a modular, configurable circuit design using standard components to rapidly optimise three-phase SiC power module designs for performance, efficiency, thermal management, and circuit protection.
In addition to their exhibition, Wolfspeed engineers will be presenting new research and leading application panels as part of the conference program.
