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Evaluation Board For Paralleling 1200V C3M Silicon Carbide MOSFETs in a 7-pin TO-263 Package
KIT-CRD-HB12N-J1
The purpose of this evaluation board is to demonstrate the proper design and layout for paralleling two high performance Wolfspeed® Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs in a 7-pin D2PAK™ package. This evaluation board comes configured as a half bridge but it can be configured into other common topologies such as a synchronous boost or synchronous buck topology. This board was designed to make it easy for the user to:
- Evaluate dynamic and steady-state current sharing of parallel SiC MOSFETs
- Evaluate SiC MOSFET switching performance and characterize EON and EOFF losses in SiC MOSFETs.
- Evaluate SiC MOSFET thermal performance in a synchronous buck or boost converter.
- Use as a PCB layout example for effectively paralleling SiC MOSFETs.
- Use as a reference for thermal management of a D2PAK SiC MOSFET
Specifications
- Max DC Bus Voltage of 900 V
- Rated Power of 10 kW @ 60 kHz (synchronous boost operation 400 V-800 V)
- Optimized locations for scope probe measurements of drain current, VGS, and Vds
- Synchronous and asynchronous buck and boost topologies supported
- Can be configured as full bridge DC/DC by using two evaluation boards
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