Avago Technologies has introduced a new compact extended temperature automotive grade optocoupler for use in hybrid electronic vehicles. Avago's ACPL-36JV 2.5-A optocoupler incorporates an integrated ...

When we are concerned with the accurate reproduction of a signal, distortion and noise are the enemy that engineers spend a great deal of time eliminating wherever possible. However, humans being the ...

For sake of efficiency, LEDs in optocouplers generally are designed to carry as little current as possible. The result: A rather tricky stability problem. Designers of switch-mode power supplies ...

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 ...

In LEDs heat and high currents hasten the dimming process which can lead to unreliable operation in LED-powered optocouplers. Some simple and straight-forward analysis will keep their light shining ...

Due to their versatility, ease of design, and low cost, flyback converters have become one of the most widely used topologies in power electronics. Its structure derives from one of the three basic ...

The Senior Pillbox aims to provide a low-cost, fully electronic circuit-based solution with minimal human intervention ...