TIDA-01541 Reference Design

Texas Instruments

High-Bandwidth Phase Current and DC-Link Voltage Sensing Reference Design for Three-Phase Inverters

Description

The TIDA-01541 reference design reduces system cost and enables a compact design for isolated phase current and DC link voltage measurement in three-phase inverters: while achieving high bandwidth and sensing accuracy. The output of the isolated amplifiers is interfaced to the internal ADC of the MCU using a differential-to-single-ended circuit. Use of isolated amplifiers enables using SAR ADC within MCU: thereby lowering system cost without any trade-offs on the current sensing. The 8-pin package reduces board form factor. High bandwidth of the isolated amplifier enables protection of IGBTs within 3.5 µs and high-performance specifications enable high-accuracy current and voltage measurements. The DC link voltage measurement is done with a high input impedance to avoid effect of source impedance due to high-voltage potential divider to improve accuracy.

Features
  • Reinforced: isolated inverter suited for 400-V to 1200-V DC-link drives rated up to 10 kWReinforced: isolated amplifiers with high bandwidth (> 200 kHz) enable low latency current sensing and fast overcurrent detection (Reinforced: isolated amplifier with high impedance input optimized for precision sensing of high-impedance nodes like DC-link voltage: ±1% error for DC-link voltage sensing accuracy from 0-V to 1026-V DCCalibrated current measurement error of ±0.5% over ±50-A FSR and across temperature range from –25 °C to +85 °CReinforced: isolated amplifier with low power consumption allows powering from gate drivers bootstrap capacitor simple LDOProtection against DC bus undervoltage: overvoltage: overload: ground fault: and overtemperature
Applications
  • String inverter
  • AC drive power stage module
  • HVAC controller
  • Servo drive power stage module
  • Servo drive power supply module
  • Off-highway vehicles electric drive
  • Railway auxiliary power
  • Railway electric propulsion
  • HVAC motor control
  • Contractor circuit
  • Robot servo drive
Product Categories
  • Isolation