An optocoupler-isolated power supply is often the safest and most practical way to go when it comes to performance and protection. Here's the basics on today's LED/photodetector isolators and what you ...

Deep in the heart of your latest project lies a little silicon brain. Much like the brain inside your own bone-plated noggin, your microcontroller needs protection from the outside world from time to ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Advances in high-voltage and high-data-rate circuits for applications in electric vehicles, telecommunications, aerospace, military, and more have ...

Southwest Research Institute has developed a high-reliability, high-voltage optocoupler for spaceflight applications. NASA has selected the device as a power interface between the Europa Clipper ...

Power isolation devices are achieving higher performance specifications due to improved package designs, writes Richard Wilson. Recent optocoupler announcements form Avago Technologies and Isocom ...

Avago Technologies has introduced a low power 10MBd digital CMOS optocoupler, which it claimed has the lowest power consumption of a device of its type. Supply current is under 1.5mA over the –40 °C ...

Utilizing the photo-sensitive nature of silicon, VMI has created a line of hermetically sealed, high voltage optocouplers and opto-diodes in versions that can be assembled in series configuration for ...

The junior system designer often places the system's power requirements at the end of the list, and thus overlooks the importance of an isolated, versus non-isolated AC/AC, AC/DC, DC/AC, or DC/DC ...