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News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: HCPL-5120/1 and HCPL-5150/1 optocouplers
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 September 2004
Couplers provide powerful military
protection
A new range of military-specified hermetically sealed, gate-drive optocouplers is designed for motor-control inverter and UPS applications in critical defence and aerospace equipment.
A new range of military-specified hermetically sealed, gate-drive optocouplers is designed for motor-control inverter and uninterruptible power-supply applications in critical defence and aerospace equipment The devices are supplied in rugged, hermetically sealed ceramic packages capable of operation over the full military temperature range of -55 to +125C, and storage from -65 to +150C
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Until now, mil-standard hermetically sealed gate-drive optocouplers were not available", said Tze Siong Chong, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Isolation Products Division.
"Our new optocouplers save board space by eliminating the need to combine an HVIC with a separate isolation device to create a total IGBT/MOSFET gate-drive solution".
The optocouplers may be purchased as either commercial-grade products, with full MIL-PRF-38534 Class H testing, or from the Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) Standard Microcircuit Drawings (SMDs).
Agilent's HCPL-5120 (commercial)/HCPL-5121 (Class H) and HCPL-5150 (commercial)/HCPL-5151 (Class H) gate-drive optocouplers are supplied in 8-pin, 300mil hermetic dual-inline packages with a variety of lead forms suitable for through-hole and surface mounting.
All are manufactured and tested on a MIL-PRF-38534 certified line and are included in the DSCC Qualified Manufacturers List, QML-38534, for hybrid microcircuits.
The HCPL-512x and HCPL-515x devices contain a GaAsP infra-red LED optically coupled to an integrated circuit with a power output stage.
The high operating voltage range of the output stage provides the drive voltages required by gate-controlled devices.
The voltage and current supplied by these optocouplers makes them ideally suited for directly driving IGBTs with ratings up to 1200V/50A (HCPL-515x) and up to 1200V/100A (HCPL-512x).
For IGBTs with higher ratings, these devices can be used to drive a discrete power stage, which drives the IGBT gate.
The optocouplers also feature undervoltage lockout protection (UVLO) with hysteresis to prevent damage to the motor drive.
The commercial versions of the Agilent hermetic gate-drive optocouplers are available now through Agilent's worldwide distribution partners. Request a free brochure from Avago Technologies ...
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