Making SiC mainstream: SiC power converter design toolkits

Maximising their performance:

• Requires characterisation board designed for SiC devices with minimal parasitic inductances
• Demands precise measurement of voltage and current waveforms
• Calls for careful and optimised gate drive design and layout to minimise noise coupling

To simplify optimising the performance of Littelfuse's SiC devices in your applications, the Monolith–Littelfuse Dynamic Characterisation Platform lets you:

• Characterise switching behaviour of SiC devices accurately 
• Explore optimised driving via gate driver parameter tuning
• Accelerate converter design with SiC devices

Discover how Littelfuse's 5kW evaluation converter kit will help accelerate your next power converter design
The high switching speed of SiC devices enables very low losses. However, careful converter design and layout are required to extract the full benefit of SiC devices. Minimising inductance in the power loop is crucial.

Careful gate drive design and layout are necessary to isolate control circuitry from noise.

Littelfuse 5kW evaluation converter will help accelerate your next design
By using a modular design strategy and components with similar footprints, we can offer you a versatile and adaptable platform for converter-level testing.

Configurable operating characteristics:

• Converter topology
• Non-synchronous buck
• Synchronous buck
• Non-synchronous boost
• Synchronous boost
• Voltage/Current
• Operating frequency
• Driving solutions

Suitable as a platform for:

• Introductory converter design
• Power density studies
• Control theory applications
• Guide to proper layout techniques when dealing with SiC devices
• Evaluating different driving techniques

Aids in the design of a wide range of power electronics applications:

• Automotive EV / HEV and charging
• Solar and energy storage systems
• Data and communications power and UPS
• Industrial drives, HVAC and welding

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