Electro-Thermal Design: Using BCI ROMs for Switch-Mode Power Electronics
Featured Article - Submitted by Mike Donnelly on 15 Mar 2021 | 18:53 PDTThis article describes a method to perform accurate electro-thermal simulations for circuits that operate in switch-mode. This approach addresses the fundamental problem of these divergent requirements:
• The need to simulate long periods of “virtual circuit operation”, due to long thermal settling times
• The need for small simulation time-steps, due to high switching frequencies and fast, non-linear device behavior