General Purpose MCU Timers and Isolated Gate Drivers
Dirceu R. Rodrigues Jr.
IFSC
Computer Engineer with a Masters in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems). He has worked for a hydro power plant (COPEL) as manager and also as an independent consultant, speaking on tech seminars and evaluating new products for integrated circuits companies, such that NXP, TI and Wiznet. Currently teaching embedded systems design classes. Area of interest include: Power electronics, IoT, ARM processors, Digital Control and DSP.
Abstract
Abstract – In this work, we show some techniques to generate complex gate driver signals for switching converters isolated by pulse transformer when using simple timers available in low cost microcontrollers. Two approaches... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Dirceu R. Rodrigues Jr. (IFSC)
Topic Areas
AC-AC Power Converters , Education , Converters for Special Applications
Session
PS-4 » Poster Session IV (11:10 - Wednesday, 2nd December, Foyer)
