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Navitas Semiconductor has announced its high-power GaNSafe™ ICs achieve automotive qualification for both AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q101, showcasing GaN’s next inflection into the automotive market.
Navitas high-power GaNSafe 4th generation family integrates control, drive, sensing, and critical protection features that enable unprecedented reliability and robustness in high-power applications. It is the world’s safest GaN with short-circuit protection (350ns max latency), 2kV ESD protection on all pins, elimination of negative gate drive, and programmable slew rate control. All these features are controlled with 4-pins, allowing the package to be treated like a discrete GaN FET, requiring no VCC pin.
The Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) lists various qualifications focused on failure mechanism-based stress tests for packaged integrated circuits (AEC-Q100) and discrete semiconductors (AEC-Q101) used in automotive applications. Navitas’ GaNSafe™ has been qualified to both standards to ensure that both the discrete power FET stage and the combined IC solution meet these stringent specifications.
To support the qualification, Navitas has created a comprehensive reliability report that analyzes over 7 years of production and field data. It demonstrates their track record, alongside generational and family improvements in robustness and reliability, establishing GaN power ICs as highly reliable and automotive-ready. This reliability report is available to qualified customers.
Additionally in March 2025, Navitas unveiled the world’s first production released 650V Bi-Directional GaNFast ICs with IsoFast Drivers, creating a paradigm shift in power to enable the transition from two-stage to single-stage topologies to further enhance efficiency, power density, and performance in AC-DC and AC-AC conversion. This would allow next-generation single-stage OBCs to provide bi-directional charging in a high-efficiency, extremely compact solution – which eliminates bulky capacitors and input inductors.
A leading EV and solar micro-inverter manufacturer have already begun their implementation of single-stage BDS converters to improve efficiency, size, and cost in their systems. GaNFast-enabled single-stage BDS converters achieve up to 10% cost savings, 20% energy savings, and up to 50% size reductions.
“Our latest reliability report is the culmination of years of innovation and field experience,” said Gene Sheridan, CEO and co-founder of Navitas. “With more than 250 million units shipped, over 2 trillion field devices hours and a cumulative field failure rate that is now approaching 100 parts per billion, we’re leading the charge in making GaN the go-to technology for EV power systems.”
Original – Navitas Semiconductor
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Diodes Incorporated announced the expansion of its silicon carbide (SiC) product portfolio with a series of five high-performance, low figure-of-merit (FOM) 650V SiC Schottky diodes. Rated at 4A, 6A, 8A, 10A, and 12A, the DSCxxA065LP series is housed in the ultra-thermally efficient T-DFN8080-4 package and is designed for high-efficiency power switching applications, such as DC to DC and AC to DC conversion, renewable energy, data centers (especially those that process heavy artificial intelligence (AI) workloads), and industrial motor drives.
The industry-leading FOM, calculated as FOM=QC×VF, is attributed to:
- Negligible switching losses, thanks to the absence of reverse recovery current and low capacitive charge (QC), and
- Low forward voltage (VF) minimizing conduction losses, enhancing overall power efficiency.
These characteristics make them ideal for high-speed switching circuits.
The high-performance SiC diodes are also notable for their lowest reverse leakage (IR) in the industry, at 20µA (max.). This minimizes heat dissipation and conduction losses, improving system stability and reliability, particularly in comparison to silicon Schottky devices. This reduction in heat dissipation also lowers cooling costs and operating expenses.
The compact and low-profile T-DFN8080-4 (typ. 8mm x 8mm x 1mm) surface mount package incorporates a large underside heat pad, which reduces thermal resistance. Requiring less board space and providing a larger heat pad, the T‑DFN8080-4 is an ideal alternative to the TO252 (DPAK). This benefits circuit designs by increasing power density, reducing overall solution size, and lowering the cooling budget.
The 4A DSC04A065LP, 6A DSC06A065LP, 8A DSC08A065LP, 10A DSC10A065LP, and 12A DSC12A065LP are available at $1.25, $1.55, $1.80, $2.10, and $2.40, respectively, each in 2,500-piece quantities.
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Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH introduces technologically advanced solutions that enable engineers to meet their system efficiency and sustainability design goals at PCIM 2025. This year, Toshiba showcases semiconductor solutions in key application areas, including e-mobility, industrial, energy, and infrastructure.
“Excellence in power – over its 150-year history, this is what Toshiba stands for,” says Armin Derpmanns, VP Marketing & Operations, Toshiba. “Innovative technologies and solutions, highest quality levels, and low-carbon footprint products support engineers in enhancing performance, reliability, and sustainability to build an all-electric society.”
At Toshiba’s stand, three demonstration areas are set to focus on the latest innovation of wide-bandgap (WBG) technology, advances for the next generation of Silicon MOSFETs and Motor Control related applications.
Toshiba will share updates on its recent advancements in 6-inch diameter silicon carbide (SiC), as well as 8- and 12-inch silicon (Si) wafer production. Additionally, examples of new IGBT/FRD, RC-IGBT and SiC MOSFET dies will be introduced. In terms of modules, samples of a 2-in-1 SiC module with pin fin cooler will be displayed. Visitors to the stand will be able to examine a mock-up of the new 1200V/350A middle voltage multi-chip package (MV-MCP) with double-sided heat dissipation, designed for xEV traction inverter applications.
Additionally, visitors to the booth can explore how Toshiba’s SmartMCD, featuring an integrated microcontroller with a gate driver, contributes to a higher efficiency for automotive motor applications, offering space and system cost savings.
The industrial area will include a new cordless power tool demo, demonstrating how Toshiba’s three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive circuit enables compact yet highly efficient motor control.
The display also features the Click boards™ demonstrator. Toshiba’s specialists will be on hand to explain how evaluation and prototyping boards, developed in collaboration with its partner MIKROE, can simplify the design process for engineers working on automotive and industrial motor control applications. The latest addition to the family, Clicker 4 Inverter Shield 2 extension board, illustrates how it can enable the precise and reliable control of BLDC motors for electric power steering (EPS), powered brakes, and pumps.
The energy (WBG) sector of Toshiba’s stand spotlights high power intelligent flexible package low voltage (iXPLV), and E3D SiC MOSFET modules.
For xEV inverter designers, visitors should make a point to see Toshiba’s presentation, titled: ‘Impact of SBD embedding into SiC MOSFETs on dynamic behaviour at High Temperature’ taking place at the Bruessel 1 stage, on 6th May between 11:20 and 11:40. Shunsuke Asaba will share research findings indicating that recovery loss remains constant across temperatures and consistent turn-on loss is therefore anticipated in inverter circuits regardless of temperature.
For those interested in the latest Toshiba power electronics and semiconductor device modelling developments, Kazuyasu Takimoto will present a poster session in the foyer, entitled: ‘Accurate IGBT Circuit Model Considering Impact of Dynamic Avalanche Phenomenon’. It takes place during the Modelling and Simulations II session on May 8th, which runs from 11:15 to 12:45.
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Hyperdrives, a pioneer in advanced electric motor technology, has chosen CISSOID’s state-of-the-art Silicon Carbide (SiC) Inverter Control Modules (ICMs) to power its revolutionary hollow conductor cooled electric motors. This collaboration aims to set new standards in power density, efficiency, and performance within the electric vehicle industry and beyond.
Hyperdrives’ innovative approach utilizes a direct cooling system that dissipates heat at its source by channelling cooling fluid through hollow conductor windings. This design enhances heat dissipation by a factor of ten, allowing for continuous currents three times higher than traditional systems and resulting in motors that are twice as power-dense. The company’s automotive flagship product, Hyperdrives One, exemplifies this technology, offering exceptional peak and continuous power and torque density while reducing material costs by up to 40%.
To complement this cutting-edge motor design, Hyperdrives has integrated CISSOID’s 3-Phase 1200V/550A SiC Inverter Control Module. Combining high efficiency with robust control, the CXT-ICM3SA series integrates SiC power modules, gate driver boards, and control boards featuring Intel Automotive’s T222 Adaptive Control Unit (ACU) with its accompanying control software. The combination ensures rapid development and deployment of high-performance e- mobility drivetrains. Motor drive developers can also leverage CISSOID’s SiC Inverter Reference Designs to further accelerate their design cycle.
Benjamin Hengstler, Co-Founder of Hyperdrives, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership: „Finding an inverter solution that matches the extreme power density of our hollow conductor cooled motors was a real challenge – but with CISSOID’s SiC Inverter Control Module we found exactly that. The result is an ultra-compact, ready-to-install EDU that is second-to-none in gravimetric and volumetric power density. The great feedback from our customers in automotive, aviation and marine is a testament to this long-standing collaboration.”
Pierre Delatte, CTO of CISSOID, added: “Partnering with Hyperdrives is an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of electric drive systems. Our SiC inverter technology is designed to meet the highest standards in power conversion, and together with Hyperdrives’ cutting-edge motors, we are enabling a new era of electrification.”
This strategic collaboration between Hyperdrives and CISSOID is poised to deliver electric drive systems that offer unparalleled efficiency, compactness, and performance, setting a new benchmark in the electric vehicle industry.
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