CMR with the LED On (CMR )
in the high state and the supply
voltage drops below the HCPL-
IPM Dead Time and Propagation
Delay Specifications
H
A high CMR LED drive circuit
must keep the LED on during
common mode transients. This
is achieved by over-driving the
LED current beyond the input
threshold so that it is not pulled
below the threshold during a
transient. A minimum LED
current of 10 mA provides
3180 U
threshold (typ 7.5 V)
The HCPL-3180 includes a
Propagation Delay Difference
(PDD) specification intended to
help designers minimize “dead
time” in their power invertor
designs. Dead time is the time
during which the high and low
side power transistors are off.
Any overlap in Q1 and Q2
conduction will result in large
currents flowing through the
power devices from the high
voltage to the low-voltage motor
rails.
VLO-
the optocoupler output will go
into the low state. When the
HCPL-3180 output is in the low
state and the supply voltage
rises above the HCPL-3180
V
threshold (typ 8.5 V) the
UVLO+
optocoupler output will go into
the high state (assume LED is
“ON”).
adequate margin over the
maximum I
of 8 mA to
FLH
achieve 10 kV/us CMR.
CMR with the LED Off (CMR )
L
A high CMR LED drive circuit
must keep the LED off (V ≤
F
V ) during common mode
F(OFF)
transients. For example, during
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
a -dV /dt transient in Figure
31, the current flowing through
CM
C
R
also flows through the
LEDP
and V
of the logic gate.
SAT
SAT
As long as the low state voltage
developed across the logic gate
is less than V
the LED will
F(OFF)
remain off and no common
mode failure will occur.
6
4
The open collector drive circuit,
shown in Figure 32, cannot keep
2
0
the LED off during a +dV /dt
CM
0
5
10
15
20
transient, since all the current
(VCC-VEE) - SUPPLY VOLTAGE - V
flowing through C
must be
LEDN
supplied by the LED, and it is
not recommended for
Figure 34. Under Voltage Lock Out
applications requiring ultra high
CMR performance. Figure 33 is
L
an alternative drive circuit,
which like the recommended
application circuit (Figure 25),
does achieve ultra high CMR
performance by shunting the
LED in the off state.
Under Voltage Lockout Feature
The HCPL-3180 contains an
under voltage lockout (UVLO)
feature that is designed to
protect the IGBT under fault
conditions which cause the
HCPL-3180 supply voltage
(equivalent to the fully charged
IGBT gate voltage) to drop below
a level necessary to keep the
IGBT in a low resistance state.
When the HCPL-3180 output is
Figure 35. Minimum LED Skew for Zero Dead
Time
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