Product category:
Industrial Drives/Controls
News Release from: Semikron | Subject: Semistack
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 08 December 2004
Stack provides configurable power for
driving
A new intelligent modular power platform integrates Semikron's Semix IGBT half-bridge modules and the Skyper half-bridge driver core, which contains all basic driver functions.
Semikron has introduced a new Semistack intelligent modular power platform This latest development integrates Semikron's Semix IGBT half-bridge modules and the Skyper half-bridge driver core, which contains all basic driver functions
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 29 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Developed in the UK, one of Semikron's nine International Solutions Centres, the product has been designed to make it suitable for markets worldwide.
It takes the form of an off-the-shelf or configurable "black box" that offers all the functionality that is needed for a wide range of applications all the user needs to do is provide a control scheme.
The Semistack is a modular platform with built-in intelligence, and which incorporates the newest advances in power electronics while using common piece parts wherever possible.
It can be based on Semikron's Semix 2, 3 or 4 IGBT half-bridge modules.
These are the latest-generation, lowest-loss, highest efficiency IGBT modules, which are housed in a very low inductance, 17mm high package.
A range of current ratings is available within each Semix family, providing an overall choice ranging from 250 to 1300A.
Therefore, the stack can be configured for low, through medium, to high power to suit a wide range of applications including motor drives, inverters, uninterruptible power supplies and renewable energy generation.
The Semistack platform is believed to be the most compact and volumetric-efficient solution on the market.
The platform is fully protected by the incorporation of Semikron's new Skyper intelligent gate driver circuits which, in addition to basic driver functions and electrical isolation, also include VCE monitoring, short pulse suppression, undervoltage monitoring and interlocking.
Other features of the Semistack platform include low-inductance coplanar bus-barring; DC-linked voltage monitoring; highly accurate, closed-loop current sensors and thermal measurement; high-frequency snubber capacitors; and DC-linked bulk capacitance.
The units have been designed to be plug-and-play and are fully electrically and thermally tested.
They are available in air-cooled and, for even more compact solutions, water-cooled variants.
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