Voltage spike measurement circuit and method

Abstract

A voltage spike measurement circuit for a power switch includes a rectifier unit, a capacitive divider unit and a discharge unit, the rectifier unit configured to receive a voltage signal at both ends of a power switch and output a rectified signal; the capacitive divider unit includes at least two capacitors connected in series and configured to receive the rectified signal, divide the rectified signal based on a capacitance ratio of the at least two capacitors, and output a divider signal to a digital signal processor to calculate a voltage spike measurement value of the power switch; and the discharge unit connected in parallel to the capacitive divider unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.