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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Methods, apparatus, and systems to facilitate a fault triggered diode emulation mode of a transistor
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Serkan Dusmez, Plano, TX (US);
Nathan Richard Schemm, Rowlett, TX (US);
Salil Chellappan, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 5/00 (2006.01); H02H 5/04 (2006.01); H02H 1/00 (2006.01); H02H 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 5/04 (2013.01); H02H 1/0007 (2013.01); H02H 7/1213 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus to facilitate a fault triggered diode emulation mode of a transistor. An example apparatus includes a driver to output a control signal to a gate terminal of a transistor of a power converter; and a diode emulation control circuit to, in response to determining a fault corresponding to the transistor, enable the transistor when current flows in a direction from a source terminal of the transistor to a drain terminal of the transistor.