How to calculate swithching losses for a mosfet using in power supply

Sensacell

Joined Jun 19, 2012
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The switching losses are the product of current and voltage applied to the device - integrated over the entire operating cycle.
Very hard to calculate theoretically, unless the waveforms are very simple.

What do you have as a starting point?
 

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mohan.n2293

Joined Jan 23, 2017
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The switching losses are the product of current and voltage applied to the device - integrated over the entire operating cycle.
Very hard to calculate theoretically, unless the waveforms are very simple.

What do you have as a starting point?
My Application is flyback converter please provide any direct formulas to get switching loss calculations for mosfet
 

ian field

Joined Oct 27, 2012
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My Application is flyback converter please provide any direct formulas to get switching loss calculations for mosfet
Its possible that some semiconductor manufacturers supply application notes covering this topic, but I'm fairly sure there's no standard formula.

The main items are power due to RDSon and drain current which is fairly easy, the hard work bit is the switching transition where the chanel is changing from carrying current to blocking voltage. Flyback is even more fun because the flyback can be a few multiples of Vdd depending on the behaviour of the magnetics.
 

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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As Ian noted, the conducting MOSFET power can be calculated by the I²R of the MOSFET when ON times the duty-cycle of it's ON vs. OFF time.

The switching losses can be estimated by assuming a linear (trapezoidal) rise time.
The rise (turn-off) dissipation in watts is then approximately equal to the on-current times the peak turn-off drain voltage times 1/2 the rise-time times the switching frequency.
The fall (turn-on) dissipation is normally low for a flyback, because transformer inductance typically allows very little current to build up during the short fall-time.

For a better estimation, you can do a Spice simulation of the flyback circuit.
 

ian field

Joined Oct 27, 2012
6,536
As Ian noted, the conducting MOSFET power can be calculated by the I²R of the MOSFET when ON times the duty-cycle of it's ON vs. OFF time.

The switching losses can be estimated by assuming a linear (trapezoidal) rise time.
The rise (turn-off) dissipation in watts is then approximately equal to the on-current times the peak turn-off drain voltage times 1/2 the rise-time times the switching frequency.
The fall (turn-on) dissipation is normally low for a flyback, because transformer inductance typically allows very little current to build up during the short fall-time.

For a better estimation, you can do a Spice simulation of the flyback circuit.
Something I forgot to mention - using a fast MOSFET may not count for much if the gate driver struggles to drive the gate capacitance. Its a not exactly rare cause of MOSFETs running hotter than expected.
 

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mohan.n2293

Joined Jan 23, 2017
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Thanks for your reply's ,

if anybody guide me with suitable app note that will be more helpfull for because i'm searching from 2 days ,but im not able to find out suitable application note
 

ian field

Joined Oct 27, 2012
6,536
Thanks for your reply's ,

if anybody guide me with suitable app note that will be more helpfull for because i'm searching from 2 days ,but im not able to find out suitable application note
Some semiconductor manufacturers have an application notes area in their downloads section - some take a bit more effort.
 
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