Re: +48 precharge

Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:14:57 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
 

 
We have a board that tends to blow up.
 
It has a couple of isolated dc/dc converters, gate driver chips and
big mosfet full-bridges driving transformers. The gate drivers get
their inputs from an FPGA.
 
The probelm is that the +48 volts to the h-bridges comes up at power
turn-on, but the FPGA is configured some minutes later, after Linux
boots up. And I don't entirely trust the FPGA outputs meanwhile.
Possibly never.
 
After designing many complex fixes, a simple fix is to precharge the
module's +48 rail gently, and slam it on hard after everything is
verified stable.
 
 
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The one-shot gets its I'M OK trigger from the FPGA, which can only
happen if the FPGA is working, I hope.

 
Can you require significant net charge transfer on a short period of
time from the FPGA before the one-shot will trigger?
 
Joe Gwinn
 

There are any number of ways to reject FPGA zombie behavior. The
retriggerable one-shot is pretty simple.

Another fairly simple one would be making the processor wait to receive a
specific message from the FPGA, e.g. “Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has
landed.”

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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