This article presents a brief introduction for electrical safety, which will be fundamental for design guidelines of Optocoupler Safety Agency compliance. It gives an overview of the safety agency ...

Through light waves, optocouplers transfer signals of all types between components. Due to their mode of operation, they also provide electrical isolation and noise immunity not found in other ...

Inverter gate driver optocouplers are ideally suited for IGBT and MOSFET applications for variable speed motor drives. Their high output peak currents, coupled with high voltage safety standards ...

The optocoupler continues to evolve to meet increasingly stringent requirements emerging from power-conversion apps, where safety is a top design driver. This week's PowerBites focuses on some recent ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Galvanic isolation means that no direct electrical connection exists between two circuits or between circuits and accessible parts. Its purpose is to ...