mosfet gate driving problem

Jul 08, 2005 7 Replies

Hi all,



I have a problem when driving a mosfet via gate driver IC's. The input wave has some noise on it and its causing the gate drive IC to turn on when its not supposed to. This is happending on the rise and fall of the drive wave. Such as on the rise its switching on and off very fast (probably in the mhz range) before actually staying on with the input wave. . The only half solution is to use very slow gate driver IC's which seem not to be able to react fast enough to this oscilation and thus smoothing it out a bit. Though its by far a cure.... anyone any ideas what I can do to filter out this noise and stop the mosfets from turning on when they are not supposed to ?



thanks, Chris


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Lots of ways.. anything from a simple RC low pass filter and a gate with some hysterisis to a single chip microprocessor (code would be similar to that used to debounce a keyboard).

mmmm, there are debounce Ic's though these are for switches, they operate around 25ms, my bounce time is 0.1uS, a LP filter may work....

Chris

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Here you go..

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Fantastic page that! thanks!!

Chris

found this one also, looks good aswell...

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If your source is digital the unwanted spikes are probably rail to rail and would go right through the circuit on that page. You need the RC filter to eliminate short spikes AND the Schmitt to eliminate noise introduced by the slower rise/fall times after the RC.

Sorry if you know this stuff.

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