The 1ED3141MU12F from Infineon Technologies is a Single-Channel Isolated Gate Driver IC that has been designed to drive IGBTs, Si MOSFETs, and SiC MOSFETs. It requires an input voltage of 3-6.5 V and provides an output current of up to 6.5 A. This gate driver is suitable for operation at high ambient temperatures and in fast-switching applications. It is based on coreless transformer technology that enables accurate data transfer across the isolation barrier. The input pins of this gate driver operate using CMOS threshold levels to support 3.3 V microcontrollers. It has a propagation delay of 40 ns with a part-to-part matching time of 7 ns.
This gate driver IC provides an isolation voltage of up to 5.7 kV (RMS) for 1 minute as per the UL1577 flame retardant standard and offers very high common-mode transient immunity of over 300 kV/µs. It connects pull-up and pull-down resistors to an external supply or ground potential to permanently activate the individual driver input. This driver includes under-voltage lockout, over-temperature protection, and active shutdown circuitry to ensure high reliability during operation. It is available in a surface-mount package that measures 4.9 x 1.75 mm and is ideal for EV charging, energy storage systems, solar inverters, UPS systems, AC and brushless DC motor drivers, HVAC systems, and telecom SMPS applications.