Integrated bootstrap high-voltage driver chip and technological structure thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10340906-B2
Application number	US-201715779432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 23, 2017
Priority date	Feb 23, 2016
Publication date	Jul 2, 2019
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019

Abstract

Parasitic high-voltage diodes implemented by integration technology in a high-voltage level shift circuit are used for charging a bootstrap capacitor CB, wherein a power supply end of the high voltage level shift circuit is a high-side floating power supply VB, and a reference ground is a floating voltage PGD that is controlled by a bootstrap control circuit. A first parasitic diode DB1 and a second parasitic diode DB2 are provided between the VB and the PGD. The bootstrap control circuit is controlled by a high-side signal and a low-side signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An integrated bootstrap high-voltage driver chip based on a driver circuit of a half-bridge structure, comprising a low-side channel logic circuit ( 001 ) and a high-side channel logic circuit ( 002 ), wherein the high-side channel logic circuit ( 002 ) comprises a high-side signal input circuit ( 004 ), a narrow pulse generation circuit ( 005 ), a high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ) and a high-side channel high-basin logic circuit ( 007 ) composed of two pulse filtering circuits with the same structure, an RS trigger and a high-side signal output circuit; the low-side channel logic circuit ( 001 ) comprises a low-side signal input circuit ( 008 ), a low-side delay circuit ( 009 ) and a low-side signal output circuit ( 010 ); a high-side input signal (HIN) is connected to the input end of the high-side signal input circuit ( 004 ), an output signal (CIN 1 ) of the high-side signal input circuit ( 004 ) is connected to the input end of the narrow pulse generation circuit ( 005 ), a low-voltage set signal (SET) and a low-voltage reset signal (RESET) outputted by the narrow pulse generation circuit ( 005 ) are respectively connected to two input ends of the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ), a high-voltage set signal (VRS) and a high-voltage reset signal (VRR) outputted by the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ) are respectively connected to two input ends of the high-side channel high-basin logic circuit ( 007 ), and a high-side output signal (HO) outputted by the high-side channel high-basin logic circuit ( 007 ) is used as a gate driving signal of a high-side tube in the half-bridge structure; a low-side input signal (LIN) is connected to the input end of the low-side signal input circuit ( 008 ), an output signal (CIN 2 ) of the low-side signal input circuit ( 008 ) is connected to the input end of the low-side delay circuit ( 009 ), the output end of the low-side delay circuit ( 009 ) is connected to the input end of the low-side signal output circuit ( 010 ), and the output of the low-side signal output circuit ( 010 ) is a low-side output signal (LO) and is used as a gate driving signal of a low-side tube in the half-bridge structure; in the circuits above, the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ) and the high-side channel high-basin logic circuit ( 007 ) are located in a high-voltage circuit area and powered by a high-side floating power supply (VB), the other circuits are all located in a low-voltage circuit area and powered by a low-side fixed power supply (VCC); in order to increase the utilization efficiency of the power supply, the half-bridge driver chip is powered by a single power supply, wherein the low-voltage area circuit is directly powered by a direct current power supply, while the high-voltage area circuit is in a floating state, and is powered by an external bootstrap diode (D B− ) and an external bootstrap capacitor (C B− ) in a bootstrap manner; the power supply of the high-side signal input circuit ( 004 ), the narrow pulse generation circuit ( 005 ) and the low-side channel logic circuit ( 001 ) is the low-side fixed power supply (VCC), a logic ground is a ground signal (COM), the power supply of the high-side channel high-basin logic circuit ( 007 ) is the high-side floating power supply (VB), a logic ground is a high-side floating ground (VS), and the bootstrap capacitor (C B− ) is connected between the high-side floating power supply (VB) and the high-side floating ground (VS); the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ) is used as an interface of the high-voltage area circuit and the low-voltage area circuit, and comprises two subcircuits with the same structure, each subcircuit comprises a high-voltage switch tube, a Zener clamping diode and a load, the Zener clamping diode is connected to the load in parallel, the drain of the high-voltage switch tube in each subcircuit is connected to the anode of the Zener clamping diode in the subcircuit and the connecting end of the load, cathodes of the Zener clamping diodes in the two subcircuits are mutually connected to the connecting ends of the loads, and are connected to the high-side floating power supply (VB); in the two subcircuits, the grid of the high-voltage switch tube of one subcircuit is connected to the low-voltage set signal (SET) outputted by the narrow pulse generation circuit ( 005 ), the drain of the high-voltage switch tube of the subcircuit outputs the high-voltage set signal (VRS), the grid of the high-voltage switch tube of the other subcircuit is connected to the low-voltage reset signal (RESET) outputted by the narrow pulse generation circuit ( 005 ), and the drain of the high-voltage switch tube of the subcircuit outputs the high-voltage reset signal (VRR);
wherein, the bootstrap diodes (D B− ) is at least one parasitic diode implemented by integration technology, and matched with the bootstrap control circuit ( 003 ) provided to realize a bootstrap charging process together, the input signals of the bootstrap control circuit ( 003 ) are respectively the output signal (CIN 1 ) of the high-side signal input circuit ( 004 ) and the output signal (CIN 2 ) of the low-side signal input circuit ( 008 ), the output signal of the bootstrap control circuit ( 003 ) is a reference ground (PGD), the reference ground (PGD) is connected to sources of two high-voltage switch tubes in the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ), when one parasitic diode is provided, the parasitic diode is defined as a first parasitic diode (D B1 ), the anode of the first parasitic diode (D B1 ) is connected to the reference ground PGD, and the cathode of the bootstrap control circuit is connected to the high-side floating power supply VB;
when the output signal (PGD) of the bootstrap control circuit ( 003 ) is at a low level which is a ground signal (COM), the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ) conducts level shift to the high-side signal; when the output signal (PGD) of the bootstrap control circuit ( 003 ) is at a high level which is a low-side fixed power supply voltage (VCC), and when the input signal of the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ) is at a low level which is the ground signal (COM), the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ) can also be used as a current channel for the VCC to charge the external bootstrap capacitor, which realizes to charge the bootstrap capacitor by the low-side fixed power supply (VCC) under the premise of guaranteeing the normal work of the high-voltage level shift circuit;
the charging process is as follows:
when the input signal (CIN 1 ) of the bootstrap control circuit ( 003 ) is at a low level which is the ground signal (COM), and the input signal (CIN 2 ) is at a high level which is the low-side fixed power supply (VCC), the output signal (PGD) of the bootstrap control circuit ( 003 ) is at a high level which is the low-side fixed power supply (VCC), at the moment, the reference ground (PGD) charges the bootstrap capacitor (C B ) through the first parasitic diode D B1 ; when the input signal (CIN 1 ) of the bootstrap control circuit ( 003 ) is at a low level, and the input signal (CIN 2 ) is at a low level which is the ground signal (COM), the output signal (PGD) is at a high level (the low-side fixed power supply (VCC), at the moment, the PGD charges the bootstrap capacitor through the first parasitic diode (D B1 ); when the input signal (CIN 1 ) is at a high level, and the input signal (CIN 2 ) is at a low level, or when the input signals (CIN 1 ) and (CIN 2 ) are at a high level at the same time, the output signal (PGD) is at a low level which is the ground signal (COM), at the moment, the first parasitic diode (D B1 ) is in a turned-off state, and a charging action is stopped.

2. The integrated bootstrap high-voltage driver chip according to claim 1 , wherein the load in the high-voltage level shift circuit ( 006 ) is a resistive load or

Assignees

• Univ Southeast
• Southeast Univ Wuxi Integrated Circuit Technology Research Institute

Inventors

• Sun Weifeng
• Zhang Yunwu
• Yu Kuo
• Zhu Jing
• Xu Shen
• Qian Qinsong
• Liu Siyang
• Lu Shengli
• Shi Longxing

Classifications

• H03K17/063 Primary

  in field-effect transistor switches · CPC title

• H01L29/42368

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L29/1083

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H03K17/6871

  the output circuit comprising more than one controlled field-effect transistor · CPC title

• H03K19/0185

  using field effect transistors only · CPC title