onsemi Launches Industry-First Elite Pairing Studio to Simplify Power Electronics Design

onsemi (headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, Nasdaq: ON) has announced the Elite Pairing Studio, an industry-first online design tool. This tool enables engineers to move beyond traditional component-by-component selection and quickly identify the optimal combination of SiC (Silicon Carbide) MOSFETs and gate drivers based on their specific requirements. This interactive tool facilitates the evaluation of pairing behavior and trade-offs, accelerating the development of power electronics designs. It also serves as a gateway to onsemi's comprehensive suite of simulation tools for system-level performance and efficiency analysis.

As power electronics become increasingly complex, the proper pairing of switching devices and gate drivers is essential for achieving optimal efficiency, minimizing losses, and ensuring safe operating temperatures. Decisions made during the initial component selection phase, especially when balancing conflicting requirements, directly impact system-level outcomes. Traditionally, this process involved time-consuming manual evaluation and simulation, including extensive datasheet comparisons, spreadsheet analysis, and physical prototyping.

onsemi's Elite Pairing Studio simplifies this challenge by providing engineers with a step-by-step process to identify the ideal combination of onsemi's gate drivers and SiC MOSFETs based on system requirements. It allows for rapid comparison of well-matched pairings, reducing iterations from the early stages of the development process and enabling optimization of the power architecture. This helps reduce design risk and time-to-market, ensuring the system achieves its intended performance in real-world conditions.

The cloud-based environment provides engineers with secure, dedicated workspaces on onsemi.com, where they can explore device combinations based on input conditions through an intuitive workflow. The tool employs a transparent methodology backed by industry-established formulas and real-world performance calculations. The evaluation logic is clear and verifiable by the user.

Through the Elite Pairing Studio, engineers can review key performance indicators for each pairing, including switching timing, gate voltage and current (V/I) waveforms, voltage overshoot margin relative to device ratings, and switching energy losses such as turn-on and turn-off energy. These insights allow engineers to compare pairing trade-offs for their application and understand factors affecting electromagnetic interference (EMI) characteristics and reliability margins early in the design phase. Results are visualized in an interactive waveform viewer, enabling more informed pairing decisions before proceeding to full system-level simulation.

Furthermore, onsemi plans to add more of its technologies to the Elite Pairing Studio in the future.

onsemi's Elite Pairing Studio provides optimally matched SiC MOSFET and gate driver pairings tailored to application needs, enabling earlier design decisions with a clearer understanding of switching behavior and trade-offs.

Insights from these pairings can be carried forward as PLECS system-level simulation models generated by the Elite Pairing Studio, allowing for fine-tuning of efficiency, thermal characteristics, and loss performance in the onsemi Elite Power Simulator. This seamless development path allows designers to translate initial pairing insights into system-level efficiency and performance gains in advanced applications such as AI data centers, electric vehicles, industrial systems, and electrification infrastructure.

The onsemi Elite Pairing Studio is available now on the onsemi website. A demonstration is also planned at the onsemi booth (Hall 9-332) at PCIM Expo 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany.