onsemi has launched Elite Pairing Studio, an online design environment aimed at simplifying how engineers pair silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs with gate drivers for power electronics designs, including AI data centers. The tool focuses on device-level behavior and pairing trade-offs, with the goal of helping teams make earlier decisions and reduce design iterations before moving into full system-level analysis.
Elite Pairing Studio analyzes device combinations and recommends matched SiC MOSFET and gate driver pairings based on a user’s system requirements. onsemi frames it as an “industry-first” tool for moving beyond traditional component-by-component selection, with an interactive workflow that lets engineers compare recommended pairings and understand why a given combination is being suggested.
For data center power engineers, this kind of pairing work shows up everywhere SiC is being evaluated for higher-efficiency, higher-power-density conversion. But in practice, MOSFET-and-driver matching is often a slog of datasheet comparisons, spreadsheet modeling, and lab validation. A tool that pushes switching behavior and loss estimates earlier in the cycle could shorten the time it takes to converge on a workable design, especially when thermal margin and loss budgets are tight.
The cloud-based environment provides a “private and secure workspace” on onsemi.com. Engineers input requirements, then evaluate a range of gate driver combinations with a selected SiC MOSFET using methods onsemi describes as based on established industry equations and real-world performance calculations. onsemi also says the evaluation logic is transparent and inspectable by users.
Within Elite Pairing Studio, engineers can review figures of merit that include switching timings, gate voltage and current (V/I) waveforms, voltage overshoot margins relative to device ratings, and switching energy losses such as turn-on and turn-off energy. Results are visualized through an interactive waveform viewer, intended to make the timing and waveform trade-offs behind each recommendation easier to understand before progressing to system-level simulation.
onsemi ties Elite Pairing Studio into its broader toolchain: Studio-generated PLECS system-level simulation models can be evaluated in the onsemi Elite Power Simulator for system-level performance, efficiency, thermal behavior, and loss analysis. Additional onsemi technologies are planned to be added to Elite Pairing Studio over time.
Elite Pairing Studio is available now via onsemi’s website.
Source: onsemi
