Optocouplers provide high-voltage isolation between a low-voltage device like a microcontroller or a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator and a high-voltage device like an intelligent or integrated ...

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 ...

The importance of signal isolation in high-voltage design The difference between optocouplers and opto-emulators Details on TI’s silicon dioxide (SiO 2) isolation technology Isolation is invaluable in ...

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Everlight Electronics is offering 8-pin DIP optocouplers featuring high isolation voltage (5000Vrms, 1 minute), a 3.9mm profile and 8mm external creepage distance. The 1MBd high speed transistor ...

This white paper discusses the use of Avago’s Optocouplers in building industrial systems. It also discusses a brief background about optocouplers, its construction and operation. Furthermore, this ...

If you’re a person that’s working in a dangerous, high voltage area, you might take a pause and think about whether you have the right electrical protection. If the designers of the systems around you ...