Avago Technologies announced a new family of high-speed dual-supply voltage digital CMOS optocouplers. The company
is a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. Avago’s new ACPL-071L, ACPL-074L and ACPL-M75L operate in +3.3V and +5V supply voltages at a minimum speed of 15 MBd and support the industry’s typical widest operating temperature range. These new optocouplers are ideal for a variety of industrial and consumer applications, such as plasma display panels, power supply and digital field bus isolation.

Supporting the industry’s conventional widest temperature range of -40°C to +105°C, Avago’s new optocouplers are built to withstand harsh industrial environments. The ACPL-071L/M75L (single channel) and ACPL 074L (dual channel) digital optocouplers integrate a new feature similar to under voltage lock-out to prevent any output disruption in case of any power supply loss or recovery. This new product family is housed in ultra small SO-5 and SO-8
packaging, which saves valuable PCB space. In addition, products from the same family that meet 8mm creepage/clearance (ACPL-W70L and ACPL-K73L) will be available in second half of 2008. ACPL-M75L also addresses low power consumption needs with a low forward current of min 4mA.

The ACPL-071L, -074L and M75L are widely approved by international safety standards, such as IEC/EN/DIN EN 60747-5-2, UL1577 and CSA for Reinforced Insulation.

Avago Optoisolation Solutions

Avago Technologies is the No. 1 supplier of photo-IC optocouplers and ships hundreds of millions of productsb 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, phototransistors and analog and high-performance hermetic optocouplers.

Vinod Negi, ITvoir Network