Unlocking the power of high voltage

Achieve superior reliability with devices designed to address the demands of high-voltage systems

Get the most out of your high-voltage designs

Designing high-voltage applications comes with a unique set of challenges. That's why our power conversion, current and voltage sensing, isolation and real-time control technologies work together to simplify high-voltage designs, helping you reach the highest levels of efficiency and reliability.

12 Oct 2023 | COMPANY BLOG

Technology that measures temperature, current and voltage can help accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. 

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Why choose TI for your high-voltage designs?

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Built-in reliability

With decades of manufacturing experience, our solutions offer cost and performance advantages while maintaining must-have reliability for high-voltage systems.

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A specialized device portfolio

From power conversion through sensing, isolation and real-time control, our analog and embedded devices work together to simplify high-voltage designs.

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End-to-end system know-how

Our end-to-end system expertise and design resources help streamline high-voltage designs and reduce time to market. 

Design high-voltage systems with confidence

Efficient power conversion

In high-voltage designs where system efficiency, reliability and safety are paramount, it's important to minimize power losses. Check out the resources below to learn how to increase system efficiency and minimize switching and conduction losses, and discover our high-voltage power conversion portfolios and technology.

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White paper
Simplifying Power Conversion in High-Voltage Systems
See how the latest component, topology and system-level innovations can simplify power designs in high-voltage automotive and industrial applications.
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E-book
IGBT & SiC Gate Driver Fundamentals
Learn about the advantages of pairing our isolated gate drivers with IGBT & SiC power FETs for high-voltage applications.
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Accurate sensing

Accurate current, voltage and temperature sensing plays a crucial role in improving design reliability in the harsh environmental conditions typical of high-voltage applications. See how you can simplify sensing for high-voltage designs with the resources below, and discover our current, voltage and temperature sensing products.

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Addressing high-voltage current-sensing design challenges in HEV/EVs
Learn how to overcome key challenges in high-voltage current sensing and simplify your design process.
Analog Design Journal
Using isolated comparators for fault detection in electric motor drives
Learn how to use isolated comparators for fault detection in electric motor drives.
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Reliable isolation

Safety is paramount when it comes to high-voltage applications. Learn how to keep these systems safe by using the latest isolation technologies, and discover our high-voltage isolation products and technologies.

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How to design high-voltage systems with higher reliability
See how our isolation technology can help improve reliability while reducing solution size and cost.
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Different by design
Watch this short video to see how we’re innovating to keep reliability and affordability at the forefront of isolated designs

Low-latency real-time control

High-voltage systems rely on complex power topologies, requiring specialized control technologies to increase reliability. Learn how to maximize your high-voltage power designs with advanced microcontrollers designed to increase efficiency and power density, and discover our real-time control products and technology.

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Get more from your GaN-based digital power designs with a C2000 real-time MCU
Learn how to pair your GaN-based power design with one of our C2000™ microcontrollers to maximize efficiency.
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The Essential Guide for Developing With C2000 Real-Time Microcontrollers (Rev. F)
See how C2000 real-time MCUs enable robust, high-performing applications like motor control, high-voltage power, renewable energy and more.
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Customer success stories

See what our customers have to say about TI’s high-voltage technology and how it's helping them achieve safer, more reliable and more efficient high-voltage designs.

Delta

"The application of GaN converges with Delta (Electronics') core expertise in high-efficiency power electronics to maximize power density, without giving up efficiency performance. At the end of the day, the GaN technology opens the door to a new world of products that have not been possible until now."

- Kai Dong | Delta Electronics, R&D Manager of Custom Design Business Unit

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Ecoflow

“Ecoflow’s new PowerStream Microinverter features TI’s high-voltage technology, including gallium nitride (GaN) FETs, C2000™ real-time MCUs, digital isolators and isolated gate drivers. By using TI GaN we were able to make our microinverter more compact, more efficient and more reliable. TI's C2000 MCUs have helped us implement sophisticated control algorithms to make the microinverter smarter. All of this enabled us to make a competitive product that is easy to use. Ecoflow is committed to continually innovate in the solar energy market and is looking forward to working with TI to incorporate their latest technology in our future solar applications.”

- Shida Gu | Ecoflow, Power Hardware Engineer

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Discover featured applications

HEV/EV inverter & motor control
Improve system-level efficiency and maximize power density
Solar energy & storage systems
Improve power density with our portfolio of GaN FETs and GaN SiC gate drivers and bias supplies
HEV/EV battery management system (BMS)
Optimize battery efficiency and easily diagnose and manage the safety of battery packs
EV charging infrastructure
Increase power density and reduce the size of DC wall boxes
Power delivery
Achieve more power in smaller spaces without compromising reliability

Improve system-level efficiency and maximize power density

Achieve the most reliable solution for inverter and motor-control systems with our high-voltage technologies.

Benefits:

  • Improve system-level efficiency and monitor against fault conditions with isolated gate drivers for IGBT and SiC FETs.
  • Enable new architectures, increase driving range and improve power density with high-performance, real-time microcontrollers.
  • Optimize system costs and streamline functional safety with bias power-supply solutions.
  • Accurately measure current and voltage for improved system efficiency, reliability and performance with our sensing solutions. 

Featured resources

REFERENCE DESIGNS
  • PMP23223 – Smart isolated gate driver with bias supply reference design
  • PMP22817 – Automotive SPI-programmable gate driver and bias supply with integrated transformer reference design
  • TIDM-02009 – ASIL D safety concept-assessed high-speed traction, bi-directional DC/DC conversion reference design

Improve power density with our portfolio of GaN FETs and GaN SiC gate drivers and bias supplies

Help build a more sustainable future with reliable solar energy and storage systems, supported by our high-voltage power-conversion and current and voltage sensing technologies.

Benefits:

  • Improve power density with our portfolio of GaN FETs, SiC and IGBT gate drivers and bias supplies, along with advanced, real-time control microcontrollers.
  • Achieve fast and accurate current sensing to meet control loop, arc detection and insulation requirements. 

Featured resources

REFERENCE DESIGNS
  • TIDA-01606 – 10-kW, bidirectional three-phase three-level (T-type) inverter and PFC reference design
  • TIDA-010210 – 11-kW, bidirectional, three-phase ANPC based on GaN reference design
  • TIDA-010054 – Bi-directional, dual active bridge reference design for level 3 electric vehicle charging stations

Optimize battery efficiency and easily diagnose and manage the safety of battery packs

Overcome the challenges affecting the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) with BMS solutions that harness technological breakthroughs in the most critical BMS functions, such as current and voltage sensing and isolation monitoring. 

Benefits:

  • Enable accurate current and voltage measurements to effectively manage the safety of the battery pack with battery monitors and balancers.
  • Ensure industry-leading reliability with solid-state relays, improve safety of 800-V EV BMS safety, and reduce system size and cost by as much as 50%. 

Featured resources

REFERENCE DESIGNS
  • TIDA-050063 – High-voltage solid-state relay active precharge reference design

Increase power density and reduce the size of DC wall boxes

Power the future of electrification with designs that drive down the costs of DC charging stations and wall boxes while improving safety and overall user experience.

Benefits:

  • Work with your preferred wide-bandgap ICs with our portfolio of gallium nitride (GaN) FETs and SiC and IGBT gate drivers and isolated bias supplies.
  • Increase power density over IGBT-based solutions and reduce the size of DC wall boxes with GaN technology.
  • Take advantage of industry-leading current and voltage sensing technology for more reliable data transfer across voltage domains.  

Featured resources

REFERENCE DESIGNS
  • TIDA-01606 – 10-kW, bidirectional three-phase three-level (T-type) inverter and PFC reference design
  • TIDA-010210 – 11-kW, bidirectional, three-phase ANPC based on GaN reference design
  • TIDA-010054 – Bi-directional, dual active bridge reference design for level 3 electric vehicle charging stations

Achieve more power in smaller spaces without compromising reliability

Create more energy-efficient and well-protected power designs with higher reliability and power density with our portfolio of high-voltage power conversion and low-latency real-time control technologies.

Benefits:

  • Achieve beyond 80 Plus® Titanium with 96.5% energy efficiency with our GaN technology.
  • Reduce parasitic losses and make system-level designs easier with our integrated gate drivers.  

Featured resources

END-EQUIPMENT / SUB-SYSTEM
REFERENCE DESIGNS
  • PMP23069 – 3-kW, 180-W/in3 single-phase totem-pole bridgeless PFC reference design with 16-A max input
  • PMP23126 – 3-kW phase-shifted full bridge with active clamp reference design with > 270-W/in3 power density
  • PMP40988 – Variable-frequency, ZVS, 5-kW, GaN-based, two-phase totem-pole PFC reference design

Browse featured high-voltage products

NEW Gallium nitride (GaN) power stages LMG3624 PREVIEW 650V 170mΩ GaN FET with integrated driver, protection and current sensing
NEW Isolated gate drivers UCC5880-Q1 ACTIVE Automotive, 20-A, isolated real-time variable IGBT/SiC MOSFET gate driver with advanced protection
NEW Hall-effect current sensors TMCS1123 ACTIVE ±1300V reinforced isolation, 80Arms 250kHz Hall-effect current sensor with AFR, reference and ALERT
NEW Opto-emulators ISOM8110 ACTIVE DC input, transistor output, single-channel, opto-emulator with 100% to 155% CTR

Featured reference designs for high voltage

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Variable-frequency, ZVS, 5-kW, GaN-based, two-phase totem-pole PFC reference design
This reference design is a high-density and high-efficiency 5-kW totem-pole power factor correction (PFC) design. The design uses a two-phase totem-pole PFC operating with variable frequency and zero voltage switching (ZVS). The control uses a new topology and improved triangular current mode (...)
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AFE for insulation monitoring in high-voltage EV charging and solar energy reference design
This reference design features an electric bridge DC insulation monitoring (DC-IM) method which allows an accurate symmetrical and asymmetrical insulation leakage detection mechanism and an isolation resistance detection mechanism. We present a new generation of isolated amplifiers and switchers (...)
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Overcurrent and overtemperature protection for solid-state relays reference design

This reference design shows how to achieve overcurrent and overtemperature protection for a solid-state relay. The reference design features the TPSI3050-Q1 5-kVRMS reinforced isolated switch driver. TPSI3050-Q1 device integrates a laminate transformer to achieve isolation while transferring signal (...)

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Bidirectional high density GaN CCM totem pole PFC using C2000™ MCU

This reference design is a 3.-kW bidirectional interleaved continuous conduction mode (CCM) totem-pole (TTPL) bridgeless power factor correction (PFC) power stage using a C2000™ real-time controller and LMG3410R070 gallium nitride (GaN) with integrated driver and protection. (...)

Reference design
10-kW, bidirectional three-phase three-level (T-type) inverter and PFC reference design
This verified reference design provides an overview on how to implement a three-level three-phase SiC based DC:AC T-type inverter stage. Higher switching frequency of 50KHz reduces the size of magnetics for the filter design and enables higher power density. The use of SiC MOSFETs with switching (...)

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Technical resources

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High-voltage technologies are key to empowering a more sustainable future
As electrification becomes more common, semiconductor innovations enable us to interact with electric vehicles, renewable energy sources and other high-voltage systems safely and reliably. Read the blog to learn more.
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Build a more sustainable energy ecosystem with high-voltage technology
Technology that captures, converts and distributes energy effectively and efficiently will enable the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Read about the role high-voltage technology plays in that shift.
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3 reasons GaN is changing power management
Gallium nitride is replacing silicon in a growing list of applications. Learn three reasons why circuit engineers are excited about incorporating GaN into their designs.