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 ...

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 ...

This application note covers the topic of calculating gate driver power and thermal dissipation of the gate drive optocoupler IC. Gate drive optocouplers are used to drive, turning-on and off, power ...

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 ...