PRESENTATION
Accelerating the Development of Next-Generation Silicon Carbide (SiC) Traction Inverters for Electric Mobility Applications
With the recent drop in device prices, Silicon Carbide (SiC) is becoming an affordable technology for a larger number of E-Mobility applications besides mainstream EV’s. A wider number of markets can now benefit from the high efficiency and high power density offered by SiC for traction and auxiliary inverters, including E-Trucks or E-busses, specialty and industrial vehicles. Electrification is also entering other transportation markets with fuel-cell driven hybrid or full electric drive trains, like VTOL aircraft, specific-purpose drones and marine applications, Nevertheless engineers from these various industries must undertake the long journey along the conception, validation and qualification stages of a SiC inverter, facing motor control, gate driver, EMC, mechanical and thermal design challenges. CISSOID’s SiC inverter platform alleviates these challenges by bringing a complete toolbox for efficient and compact e-drive system development. This range from SiC intelligent power modules (IPM) and inverter control modules (ICM), powered by state-of-the-art motor control software, to complete, configurable and customisable SiC inverters.
Pierre Delatte
CISSOID
Pierre Delatte is CTO and co-founder of CISSOID. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of Integrated Circuits (IC’s) Design and Power Electronics. He started his carrier at UCL Microelectronics Laboratory where he worked on the design of high-speed analogue and RF IC's based on Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology. At CISSOID, he worked on product definition, design, packaging and manufacturing of high-temperature IC’s for sensor interfaces, power management and power conversion. In 2010, he initiated Company’s R&D activities related to Silicon Carbide (SiC) technology including Gate Driver IC design and high-temperature power module packaging. Today, he is driving the development of SiC Intelligent Power Modules and CISSOID’s SiC Inverter platform for E-Mobility Applications. Pierre Delatte holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Degree from the Université catholique de Louvain.