-Chip temperature in power MOSFETs is commonly obtained (e.g. for thermal characterisation purposes) by feeding a known, controlled low DC-current in the body diode and measuring the forward-voltage drop.Drain current might be estimated by a voltage measurement across drain and source terminals, on-state resistance acting as a shunt, assuming that the temperature is known and constant.Such voltage-based measurements are attractive, but dependencies limit their application to laboratory environment. In industrial converters, neither temperature nor current are known a priori.Here we show that by combining the two techniques, previous limitations are overcome. Temperature and current come as two separate polynomial expressions.The application to a low-cost monitoring system is presented and results are discussed. The validity of the system over the full temperature and current ranges is verified and a confidence map is given.
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