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Avago Technologies Brings to Market Industry's Smallest 2.5A Gate Drive Optocoupler

Posted on: Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 09:00 CST

Avago Technologies today announced the industry's smallest 2.5A gate drive optocoupler. The company is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. The compact and highly integrated ACPL-H312 is available in a stretched SO-8 package which is 40% smaller than conventional dual-inline packages (DIP). With under voltage lockout (UVLO) and low current consumption, Avago's ACPL-H312 effectively addresses isolation needs where space and efficiency is a premium, such as in IGBT/power MOSFET gate drives, AC and brushless DC motor drives, industrial inverters, air conditioners, washing machines and switching power supplies.

With a maximum high output peak current of 2.5A, the ACPL-H312 provides UVLO to prevent application malfunction, a low IC supply current consumption of 3.0mA, and a high working voltage equal to 891V. This small optocoupler also supplies a superior (common mode rejection) CMR rate up to 15 kV per microsecond to ensure reliable operation under noisy environments. Avago's ACPL-H312 supports temperature ranges up to 100°C and it is the industry's smallest 2A gate driver which meets 8 mm creepage and 7mm clearance. The product satisfies all major opto-isolation safety standards, such as UL, CSA, and IEC/EN/DIN EN 60747-5-2.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

The highly integrated and efficient ACPL-H312 will be available through Avago's direct sales channel and worldwide distribution partners. Pricing begins at $1.35 at 10000 pieces volume levels.

Avago Optoisolation Solutions

Avago Technologies is the No. 1 supplier of photo-IC optocouplers and ships hundreds of millions of products annually. The company provides the industry's broadest portfolio of optocouplers for use in a wide array of high voltage isolation applications ranging from power supply and motor control circuits to data communications and digital logic interface circuits. Avago is the technology leader in high speed, low voltage and high integration optocouplers, and offers the widest range of packages and worldwide safety approvals. Key products include multi-channel and bi-directional digital optocouplers, intelligent power module gate driver interface devices, 3.3 V and 5 V digital optocouplers, 100 Kbaud to 50 MBaud digital logic gate optocouplers, 100 MBd magnetic isolators, gate drive and current sense optocouplers, solid state relays (MOSFET), phototransistors and analog and high-performance hermetic optocouplers. More information is available at www.avagotech.com/optocouplers.

About Avago Technologies

Avago Technologies is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. By leveraging its core competencies in III-V compound and silicon semiconductor design and processing, the company provides an extensive range of analog, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems to more than 40,000 customers. Backed by strong customer service support, the company's products serve four diverse end markets: industrial and automotive, wired infrastructure, wireless communications, and computer peripherals. Avago has a global employee presence and heritage of technical innovation dating back 40 years to its Hewlett-Packard roots. Information about Avago is available on the Web at www.avagotech.com.

Avago, Avago Technologies, and the A logo are trademarks of Avago Technologies Limited in the United States and other countries.

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Source: Business Wire

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