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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2008
Rosario Scollo, Misterbianco, IT;
Massimo Nania, Gravina di Catania, IT;
Rosario Scollo, Misterbianco, IT;
Massimo Nania, Gravina di Catania, IT;
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
A driving circuit for an emitter-switching configuration of transistors having first and second control terminals connected to the driving circuit, forms a controlled emitter-switching device having in turn respective collector, source and gate terminals. The driving circuit comprises a driving block coupled between the collector terminal and the source terminal of the controlled emitter-switching device and connected to the first control terminal of the emitter-switching configuration. Further advantageously, the driving block comprises at least one IGBT driving device coupled between the collector terminal and the first control terminal of the emitter-switching configuration and having, in turn, a third control terminal, as well as a driving bipolar transistor, coupled between the collector terminal and the first control terminal of the emitter-switching configuration for controlling a saturation condition of said bipolar transistor of said emitter-switching configuration maintaining a base-collector junction thereof at a voltage next to zero and having, in turn, a fourth control terminal.