Three Phase Inverter Design

This is an Arduino based Three Phase Inverter. Schematic and the PCB layout are shown below.

Schematic

PCB layout

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MOSFET Gate Driver Circuit

The MOSFET gate driver is a power amplifier that is used to control the voltage between the Gate and Source (Vgs) and Gate Current. The MOSFET has a depletion region. According to the size of the depletion region, the MOSFET behaves like in its ON state or its OFF state. The size of the depletion region depends on the number of charges gathered in the Gate terminal. Therefore the MOSFET forms a capacitor which is called a Gate Capacitor.

Therefore transistor takes a certain time to switch from non-conducting mode to conducting mode. So the MOSFET subject to a considerably higher voltage and higher current.  It causes to generate heat in the transistor and  be enough to destroy the transistor (Desaturation fault)
The transition time of the MOSFET which related to the transition between conducting mode and conducting mode can be reduced by using higher Gate Current (Switching Current).
The Gate Driver can be used to control the gate current. Apart from that isolation between the high voltage side and the low voltage is also done by it.
The following gate driver circuit is designed by using TLP250 (datasheet) for IRFP250 MOSFETs (datasheet). There are no any fault detection techniques.

Schematic

Components

• U1 -TLP250
• IC1-LM7815T
• B1-KBU8B (datasheet) 
• R1-120
• R2-10 1W
• R3-1k
• R4-1k
• C1-470uF 50V
• C2-Optional
• C3-0.1uF
• LED1-Red 3mm

The PCB layout of the gate driver is shown below and it's designed according to the recommended layouts.

PCB Layout

If this is used for a three-phase inverter, separate 4 transformers must be needed to power-up the gate drivers. Low Side (the side which belongs to the negative bus bar) MOSFETs can be powered using one transformer. The other three are used for high side MOSFETs separately.

Eagle Schematic can be downloaded here  and PCB layout can be downloaded here