Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company
that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate
innovation to connect and secure the world, announced a new dynamic
power device analyzer with double-pulse tester (PD1500A)
to deliver reliable, repeatable measurements of wide-bandgap (WBG)
semiconductors, while ensuring the safety of the measurement hardware
and the professionals performing the tests.
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Global growth of the electric vehicle (EV) market is driving strong
demand for small, high power, efficient electric power systems. As the
industry turns to WBG semiconductor technology for mission critical
applications like renewable energy and EVs, many power converter
designers are hesitant to adopt this new technology due to potential
reliability and repeatability risks in characterizing a new generation
of semiconductors including insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT),
silicon carbide (SiC), and gallium nitride (GaN).
Fully characterizing a SiC or GaN device requires static and dynamic
measurements. Keysight’s B1505A
and B1506A Power Device Analyzers deliver these static measurements
and, with the addition of the new PD1500A, now also provides the
flexibility needed to address a variety of dynamic measurements. This
functionality is key since the standards for WBG devices, established by
the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC), continue to
evolve. JEDEC is a semiconductor trade and engineering standardization
organization.
Keysight’s PD1500A is designed to be modular, allowing many device types
to be tested and different characterization tests to be performed at a
variety of power levels. The initial system provides complete
double-pulse test characterization and parameter extraction for Si and
SiC power semiconductors with ratings up to 1.2 kV and 200 A. Additional
modules will be added to the PD1500A in the future to perform tests on
devices requiring more current, such as GaN and power modules.
“To safely and consistently make the switch to innovative power devices,
the automotive e-mobility ecosystem needs to evolve past using homegrown
dynamic testing systems, which can be unreliable with non-warranted
performance and characteristics,” stated Siegfried Gross, vice president
and general manager of Keysight’s Automotive and Energy Solutions Group.
“Keysight worked closely with semiconductor manufacturers, as well as
designers in the energy and EV industries, to deliver a dynamic power
device analyzer platform that includes the essential double-pulse test
measurement capability to achieve repeatable, reliable and safe dynamic
power device characterization.”
Keysight’s new PD1500A Dynamic Power Device Analyzer with Double-Pulse
Test Capability provides reliable, repeatable measurements of
wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors that enable customers to:
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lower costs and accelerate time to market by reducing design time and
number of prototypes needed - ensure a safe test environment
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document, support and maintain an off-the-shelf test solution, as well
as maintain multiple test solutions across one or more sites -
quickly respond to reliability concerns with measurements that focus
on ruggedness (e.g., short-circuit and avalanche) - simplify and automate the testing processes
- improve device models used in design and simulation software (PD1000A)
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company
that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate
innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight’s solutions
optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at
a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype
validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud
environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem,
aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general
electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $3.9B in fiscal
year 2018. More information is available at www.keysight.com.
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