CIRCUIT WITH A PLURALITY OF DIODES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH A CIRCUIT

A circuit includes a diode circuit and a deactivation circuit. The diode circuit includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a plurality of diodes coupled in parallel between the first terminal and the second terminal. The diode circuit is configured to be forward biased in an on-time and reverse biased in an off-time. The deactivation circuit is configured to switch a first group of the diodes into a deactivation state at a time instant before the end of the on-time, the first group of diodes including one or more but less than all of the diodes included in the diode circuit.