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EPC 400W EPC9146KITA Motor Drive Evaluation Kit

Aug. 30, 2021

The EPC9146 power board contains three independently controlled half-bridge circuits, featuring the EPC2152 monolithic ePower Stage.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Efficient Power Conversion (EPC)

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The EPC9146 power board contains three independently controlled half-bridge circuits, featuring the EPC2152 monolithic ePower Stage with integrated gate driver, 80 V maximum device voltage, 15 A maximum output current. The board can also be configured for multi-phase DC to DC conversion and the EPC2152 supports PWM switching frequencies up to 3 MHz. The EPC9146 contains critical functions for power drive application, including monolithic power stage with integrated gate driver, regulated auxiliary power rails for housekeeping supplies, voltage, and temperature sense, accurate current sense, protection functions and so on. Paired together with EPC9147A, it allows the user to control this power board directly through the Microchip dsPIC33EP256MC506 microcontroller board leveraging existing resources for quick development purposes.

The EPC9146KITA includes:

One (1) EPC9146 400 W GaN-based motor inverter board

One (1) EPC9147A mate board for dsPIC33EP256MC506 Plug-In Module

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.