[SOLVED] calculating capacitance of transistor gates

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Hi,

I'm not sure what your question is...

The output capacitance is acting as miller capacitance, thus ...
* Although the voltage at the gate changes only about 15V
* the voltage at the output capacitance may change 415V.
This causes high Q.

Klaus
 
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KlausST said:
Hi,

I'm not sure what your question is...

The output capacitance is acting as miller capacitance, thus ...
* Although the voltage at the gate changes only about 15V
* the voltage at the output capacitance may change 415V.
This causes high Q.

Klaus
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Hence max gate charge was determined at 415Vds was to obtain Vgs capacitance to obtain peak current which apparently is 7.93nF for 15Vgs at specified Ids.
 

I don't understand the purpose of deriving a capacitance value from total gate charge, because there's no physical capacitor representing the charge. The real behavior is better characterized by Figure 8, gate charge vs gate-source voltage.

Total gate charge can be used to easily calculate the per pulse gate driver energy and average gate driver supply current.
 
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The effective input capacitance is calculated as in post #1. You have capacitance curves in the datasheet.
 
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Total gate charge is useful to calculate switching losses
but treating it as a fixed capacitance will not be accurate
when it comes to transient switching behavior. Be sure
you want the right things.
 
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This was to determine peak Igs current for gate driver which is 7.93nF for mentioned part.
 

Peak current into gate of transistor is simply V_driver/Rgate. No need for any capacitance value.
 
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Is Rgate the series resistor between gate driver output and transistor gate?
 

It includes the gate driver's resistance and transistor's internal resistance as well.
 
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