dv/dt turn on with ir2011 simulation

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I found a subcircuit & model for the ir2011 for ltspice here (had a nice subcircuit with it too, think it was posted up here by analogspiceman, correct me if you never posted any such thing!) anyway i'm simulating a simple half bridge with oodles of dead time in LTspice & had to alter tolerance parameters (to make the simulation run stably) as outlined in a text file with the model.
I'm getting significant dvdt turn on problems, namely when the opposite fet is switching the gate drive of the other spikes momentarily causing a significant shootthru.
I've tried slow down resistors & schottkys on the gates but still have similar problems. Now maybe it's a poor choice of fets (modelled with irf540/640/840 only) perhaps choosing a more suitable fet would alieviate the problem? Or could i be bogged down with simulation woes? Maybe linear tech have some cunning code to detect when ltspice is simulating competitors products & produce bad results 😱
I'd post the circuit & models up except i'm not simulating on my posting machine (its too slow!)
Also any general tips & advice on simulating gate driver IC's would be useful... Ideally i'd like my real version of the circuit to behave almost as well as the final simulated prototype 😉

cheers
Rob
 
Oldroborg, what is the level of the gate spikes you are seeing?

And are you seeing a bonafide shoot-thru current? The gate to drain capacitance of the idle FET will always be there... so there will also be a charge current.

Got schem?
 
@phase_accurate: i tried everything from no gate resistor to over 20ohms, same gate drive spike & both fets on for a brief moment.
@poobah: Fairly small, few volts, although i tried many configurations so had a great variation of effects. They look like short shoot thrus as the simulations start OK with a fet current of less than 10 amps or so, then a while into the simulation it gets spikes of over 40amps, maybe it is a capacitance, as it's a very short current spike.
@ssassen: the model worked in LTspice without any problems with one 2011 but then i tried two to produce a full bridge & i had to increase reltol & abstol by a factor of ten to get ltspice to to stop bailing out or produce currents of gigaamps and teravolts from a 100v supply 😱 Would be good for a solid state tesla coil, but not so handy for an 8ohm loudspeaker!

i'll bring the schematic in tomorrow, need to buy some cdrs first 🙄
 
Oldoborg,

I've done several full bridge designs, up to 2KW in 4-ohms to be exact, in LTspice and never had that problem. Do keep a close eye on the MOSFET gate resistors though, they need to be in the 33~82-ohm range, not 10-ohm as per the IR datasheet, that will result in monstercurrents and Terawatts of power drawn due to cross-conduction.

If you like fwd me your LTspice .asc file and I'd be happy to take a look, feel free to email me at ssassen(at)hardwareanalysis(dot)com. I can't promise anything of course, but I'm sure you're missing something somewhere that breaks the simulation somehow.

Best regards,

Sander Sassen
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com
 
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