Avago Announces Automotive Grade 2.5A Gate Drive Optocoupler Specifically Designed For HEVs
Avago Technologies announced a new gate drive optocoupler targeting automotive hybrid electric vehicle applications. The company is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. Designed to meet stringent automotive AEC-Q100 guidelines, Avago’s new ACPL-312T provides 2.5A maximum peak output current to drive high powered IGBTs/MOSFETs and operates up to a high temperature rating of 125°C. Additionally, a propagation delay of 0.5µs is said to allow the circuit designer to reduce switching dead time and improve inverter efficiency.
Avago manufactures automotive optocouplers that support TS16949 requirements and are qualified for automotives electronics council (AEC) guidelines under extreme environmental test conditions. The test is performed under AEC-Q100 stress test guidelines that are suitable for operating in automotive applications. In addition to automotive requirements, the ACPL-312T optocouplers meet worldwide safety standards (UL1577, EN/IEC 60747-5-2 and CSA).
Avago’s ACPL-312T optocoupler leverages an automotive-grade LED that was developed and produced in-house. The gate drive optocouplers has an enhanced construction with superior thermal conductivity, making it suitable for isolation needs in automotive, industrial inverters and power management applications over operating temperature from -40 to 125°C. It offers high CMR (min 25 kV/µs @ VCM = 1500V) which makes it well suited for noise elimination and provides under voltage lockout (UVLO) for additional product protection.
Pricing begins at $1.88 each in 10,000 piece quantities.
