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A fast power losses calculation method for long real time thermal simulation of IGBT module for a three-phase inverter system is presented in this paper. The speed-up is obtained by simplifying the representation of the three-phase inverter at the system modelling stage. This allows the inverter system to be simulated predicting the effective voltages and currents whilst using large time-step. An average power losses is calculated during each clock period, using a pre-defined look-up table, which stores the switching and on-state losses generated by either direct measurement or automatically based upon compact models for the semiconductor devices. This simulation methodology brings together accurate models of the electrical systems performance, state of the art-device compact models and a realistic simulation of the thermal performance in a usable period of CPU time and is suitable for a long real time thermal simulation of inverter power devices with arbitrary load. Thermal simulation results show that with the same IGBT characteristics applied, the proposed model can give the almost same thermal performance compared to the full physically based device modelling approach. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: A combination of two conventional junction isolation structures is used to produce a device, which significantly improves the blocking of minority carriers injected into the substrate of a power IC due to switching of an inductive load. Simulation results show that the connection scheme employed greatly enhances the efficiency of the structures. A substrate current reduction of up to four orders of magnitude compared to conventional junction isolation structures is achieved. The significance of doping profiles in the p-sinker region is evaluated. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In this paper, load current observer based feedforward control of DC bus voltage for a three-phase active rectifier is presented. The paper focuses on: (1) design of conventional proportional-integral (PI) current controller with fastest possible response, (2) the digital current control loop time-delay compensation, (3) design of dc-link-load current observer for identifying the dc load current without using actual current sensors and (4) the feedforward control of dc bus voltage based on the designed current controller and dc link load current observer. A prototype is developed based on the proposed control scheme and expected results have been achieved. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]