Patent ID: 8711582

Claim:
A method of compensating for one or more parasitic elements of a transistor, comprising: providing the transistor having a control electrode and first and second current carrying electrodes, wherein the transistor includes the one or more parasitic elements and wherein the one or more parasitic elements comprises a source parasitic inductance and a drain parasitic inductance; providing a non-parasitic compensation inductor having first and second terminals, the first terminal commonly coupled to the first current carrying electrode of the transistor and for receiving a source of operating potential; selecting a value of the non-parasitic compensation inductor to match a sum of the inductance values of the source parasitic inductance and the drain parasitic inductance; generating a compensation signal from the non-parasitic compensation inductor; and using the compensation signal to compensate for a voltage across at least one parasitic inductance of the transistor wherein using the compensation signal includes transmitting a voltage substantially equal to a voltage across an on resistance of the transistor.