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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Infineon Technologies Ag, Neubiberg, DE;
Rainald Sander, Munich, DE;
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, DE;
Abstract
A semiconductor arrangement may include a multiplicity of semiconductor elements with controlling paths and controlled paths, the controlled paths having controllable conductivities and being connected parallel to each other. The semiconductor arrangement may also include a current evaluation circuit configured to measure current strengths of currents present in the controlled paths and to provide a signal representing the sum of the measured current strengths, and a control circuit connected to the controlling paths and configured to control the conductivities of the controlled paths in accordance with an input signal and the signal representing the sum of the current strengths. The at least one controlled path is controlled to have minimum conductivity if the signal representing the sum of the current strengths is below a threshold value.