Issues in power diode modelling for circuit simulation

Author

Tseng, K.J. ; Pan, S. ; Foo, C.F.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

26-29 May 1997

Firstpage

78

Abstract

There has been a proliferation of technical papers on power device modelling for circuit simulation. Even the power diode, the simplest of all power devices, has been the subject of a fair amount of research interest in the modelling of its characteristics. The issues in the modelling of the power diode for circuit simulation are discussed in this paper, based on the authors´ experiences. Among the issues discussed are the modelling techniques, accuracy, validation, implementation, simulation performance and parameter extraction. It is concluded that until the availability of a simple, reliable and well-understood model with standardized parameter estimation procedure, and which is actively supported by commercial simulators, the impact of this modelling work on the computer aided design of power electronics circuits is expected to remain minimal

Keywords

circuit CAD; circuit analysis computing; parameter estimation; power semiconductor diodes; semiconductor device models; circuit simulation; computer aided design; modelling techniques; parameter extraction; power device modelling; power diode modelling; power electronics circuits; simulation performance; standardized parameter estimation procedure; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Numerical models; Parameter extraction; Partial differential equations; Poisson equations; Power electronics; Power engineering and energy; Semiconductor diodes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3773-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDS.1997.618652

Filename

618652