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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2016
Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Feng Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ratnesh Sharma, Fremont, CA (US);
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
Systems and methods for semiconductor device selection, including identifying a worst operation condition for a plurality of semiconductor devices in a Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC). The identifying includes determining power losses for each of the semiconductor devices under a plurality of operation conditions, and calculating a maximum junction temperature for each of the plurality of semiconductor devices at each of the plurality of operation conditions. A maximum junction temperature under the identified worst operation condition is determined for each of a plurality of commercially available semiconductor devices which satisfy a threshold voltage rating, and all semiconductor devices which satisfy the threshold voltage rating and a maximum junction temperature threshold condition are compared to identify a semiconductor device with a lowest system cost.