Fuel-cell electric air compressor
High efficiency and reliability with fuel-cell air compressors for electric vehicle applications
Fuel-cell air compressor solutions are designed for optimum efficiency and performance, addressing the challenges faced by designers such as achieving high system efficiency and dynamics, maintaining low costs, compact and modular designs, quiet operation, and ensuring safety and diagnostic requirements.
High efficiency and reliability with fuel-cell electric air compressors
At Infineon, we understand the importance of reducing global CO₂ emissions; fuel-cell electric vehicle technology plays a crucial role in this endeavor. Our comprehensive range of semiconductor solutions is specifically designed to enhance the efficiency and performance of electric vehicle subsystems, including fuel-cell electric air compressors. Our chipset solutions are optimized for seamless integration, offering superior system efficiency and dynamics across a wide range of air flow rates and compressor speeds. With a focus on cost-effectiveness and compact design, our fuel-cell air compressor chipset solution ensures a quiet and safe operation while protecting the fuel-cell stack from contamination.
- Isolation-integrated gate drivers
- Reduced system development time
- Broad microcontroller portfolio
- Scalable solutions
- High efficiency
- High reliability
Sustainable air compression solutions for fuel-cell EV drivetrains
Our comprehensive product portfolio encompasses fuel-cell electric air compressor chipset solutions designed to optimize efficiency and reliability, whether you are looking for passenger or commercial vehicle solutions. Air compressor systems are important for controlling air mass flow rate and air pressure. Infineon’s portfolio of CoolSiC™ MOSFET products are particularly suitable for air compressor systems due to their very low temperature-independent conducting losses, even at high switching frequencies. Our next-generation Silicon Carbide (SiC) Power MOSFET technology offers designers an even higher degree of flexibility to enable increased efficiency and reliability in fuel-cell air compressor systems.
Automotive-qualified range of fuel-cell compressors
Designed to meet the stringent requirements of automotive applications, our compressor chipset solutions offer unparalleled performance and reliability. Our fully automotive-qualified product portfolio supports a wide range of power classes with a compact design and high power density, allowing efficient integration into your design, be it modular or full integration to achieve system cost reduction.
To ease and speed up your development process, we offer dedicated software, design house partner contacts, reference designs, demo boards, and layout resources.
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In this training you will:
- Be familiar with silicon carbide MOSFET structures and their characteristics
- Get to know Infineon's CoolSiC™ MOSFET, its features, its improvements over a typical trench MOS and how it performs against its competitors
- Distinguish the features and benefits of Infineon’s CoolSiC™ solutions in target applications and identify Infineon’s fully scalable CoolSiC™ portfolio to meet this automotive market transition
- Explain the reasons for the increasing introduction of silicon carbide technology in the automotive applications
Driving a CoolSiC™ MOSFET is much easier than you think. This training will show you how it can be driven with a 0 V turn-off gate voltage.
With this training you will learn how to calculate a reference gate resistance value for your Silicon Carbide MOSFET, how to identify suitable gate driving ICs based on peak current and power dissipation requirements and to fine-tune the gate resistance value in laboratory environment based on worst case conditions.
Recognize the motivation behind paralleling of the SiC MOSFET modules, as well as key challenges and solutions for both gate driver and power layout design. Learn about optimized system loop inductance to minimize switching losses solution.
See how to optimize devices’ behavior in their applications with Infineon’s SPICE Compact Models for CoolSiC™ MOSFETs.
In this training you will:
- Identify the challenges posed by traction inverter applications in terms of system requirements, size, cost and time.
- Describe EasyPACK™ 2B EDT2’s distinctive features and explain how Infineon is able to meet customer needs. Especially in relation to quality and ramp-up capability.
In this video, you will focus on the comparison of the power handling capacity of IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs, Go through the different aspects that need to be considered when dimensioning an IGBT or a MOSFET for a certain application.
In this training you will:
- Get to know Infineon’s IPOSIM tool, specifically for an automotive electric vehicle inverter
- Discover the steps involved in simulating different parameters and comparing the results of different Infineon products to see which is the best fit for your application
Learn about the motivation behind paralleling SiC MOSFET modules, what are the key challenges and solutions for both gate driver and power layout design and get familiar with optimized system loop inductance to minimize switching losses.
Training topics:
- Get to know how AURIXTM is able to answer the needs of the electric vehicle market
- Recognize and explore how AURIX™ TC3xx addresses key electric vehicle challenges, and understand the main features of the AURIX™ TC3xx microcontroller
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