Driving scheme for a bridge transistor

Details Driving scheme for a bridge transistor Driving scheme for a bridge transistor

1995-11-07

1998-05-19

Callahan, Timothy P.

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Signal converting, shaping, or generating

Current driver

327 73, H03B 100

Patent

active

057540659

ABSTRACT:
In a circuit arrangement including a pair of transistors serially connected together in a totem pole arrangement for bridging two buses at different voltage potentials, a driving scheme for controlling the conductive state of one of the pair of transistors. The scheme includes sensing the voltage difference across this one transistor by comparing a substantially fixed level represented by the voltage potential at one bus to a varying level. The varying level is based on the voltage at a junction joining the two transistors together. When the sensed voltage is at or below a predetermined level this one transistor is turned on.

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Brian E. Taylor, An Integrated High-Voltage Bridge Driver Simplifies Drive Circuits in Totem-Pole Inverters, PCI, Jun. 1988 Proceedings.

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