Hi,
We are trying to drive a 70V LED using a microcontroller and a n-channel MOSFET.
The problem is that we are getting spikes on the microcontroller if we have a common
ground for gate and the supply.
I want isolation for the mcu from the LED.please help...
better to use opt-coupler in the path of the Gate control circuit of the Mosfet... so that you will have power isolation from MCU and LED driving circuit -
However, with good filtering and bypassing, you can use the same ground and avoid the additional driver. Maybe you haven't decoupled and/or filtered enough/properly.
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Can you please suggest me a circuit that will filter the noise and also provide
isolation for MCU with or without the MOSFET driver.
A start would be decoupling and filter capacitors across all power lines - all VDD and VSS lines of microcontroller, drivers and across all power supply lines. You may also use a filter choke in series.
For isolation, use 2 different power supplies - one for the microcontroller, one for the MOSFET. Interface the microcontroller and the MOSFET with an optically-coupled driver.
If you're using a 50Hz transformer, then you can derive two power supplies from the same transformer.
But if you do have only one power supply with both parts of the circuit having the same ground, then you can't really have isolation between the two stages.
I know this is an old problem, but I think the issue is radiated (ingress) noise not conducted (ingress) noise on a common ground.
A ground shift from lossy ground wires would create a DC shift not a spike from the I^2R losses in the common ground wire to power source .
So in this case you want to use a snubber diode to prevent long wire inductance and/or capacitive coupling ingress reduced with shielding or a ferrite bead on the gate drive and common mode ferrite choke to the switched load and ground. It may need any or all of the 3 suggestions depending on layout.
In my view you need to refer this document bcz any mosfet driver circuit had it's own constants like frequency of operation, turn-on time intervals , capacitance etc.