TIDUEY6 April 2021
Isolated gate drive module for DC-DC is designed as a separate daughter card to drive a high voltage half-bridge. This is to reduce contact lengths between power supplies and gate driver secondary circuits and reduce routing complexity. This module is designed using UCC21530-Q1 isolated half bridge gate driver and SN6505-Q1 isolated power supply driver. The UCC21530 supports enable function which allows the MCU to disable power stage independent of PWM output. The isolated power supply is designed with a second layer of enable and designed to generate gate drive voltages of +15 V and -4 V for the SiC MOSFET selected for the primary full bridge. The power supply is designed based on a regulated 5 V input with no secondary regulation. A picture of the board is shown in Figure 3-28.