Implementing power diode models in SPICE and Saber

Author

Tseng, K.J. ; Foo, C.F. ; Palmer, P.R.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1994

fDate

20-25 Jun 1994

Firstpage

59

Abstract

Accurate simulation of power electronic circuits involving power diodes requires mathematically-based power diode models to describe the forward recovery and reverse recovery characteristics realistically. Proper implementations of these models have important bearings on their eventual acceptance in the industry. Practical implementations of a proposed model in widely-used versions of SPICE by hard-coding and by using user-defined controlled sources are presented. The discussion also includes an implementation in Saber using the analog hardware description language MAST

Keywords

SPICE; analogue simulation; circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; power electronics; semiconductor device models; specification languages; MAST; SPICE; Saber; analog hardware description language; forward recovery; hard-coding; mathematically-based power diode models; power diode models; power electronic circuits simulation; reverse recovery; user-defined controlled sources; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Convergence; Diodes; Equations; Hardware design languages; Mathematical model; Power electronics; Power engineering and energy; Predictive models; SPICE; Semiconductor diodes; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC '94 Record., 25th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1859-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.1994.349749

Filename

349749