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Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2016
Applicant:

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp., El Segundo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rajeev-Krishna Vytla, El Segundo, CA (US);

Danish Khatri, El Segundo, CA (US);

Min Fang, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/18 (2006.01); H03K 17/16 (2006.01); H03K 17/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/063 (2013.01); H03K 17/163 (2013.01); H03K 17/166 (2013.01); H03K 17/18 (2013.01); H03K 2217/0036 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device is described that includes a gate driver configured to output, to a gate of a switch, a turn-on voltage for activating the switch in response to receiving an indication to activate the switch and an active gate bias driver configured to actively drive a voltage at the gate of the switch to a bias voltage in response to receiving an indication to deactivate the switch. The bias voltage is less than the turn-on voltage and wherein the bias voltage is greater than a ground voltage of the gate driver.


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