Avago Technologies Launches Three Precision Isolation Amplifiers for Industrial Motor Control and Renewable Energy Markets
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Avago Technologies Launches Three Precision Isolation Amplifiers for Industrial Motor Control and Renewable Energy Markets

Optical Isolation Amplifiers with Increased Accuracy, Faster Response Time and Smaller Footprints

SAN JOSE, Calif. & SINGAPORE — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 4, 2010 — Avago Technologies (Nasdaq: AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced three Miniature Precision Isolation Amplifiers with increased accuracy, bandwidth and high insulation made possible by proprietary optical isolation technology.

Based on sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters and chopper stabilized amplifiers, the new isolation amplifiers feature high gain accuracy, low temperature drift, 3.3 V/5 V output supply operation and a wide -40 to +105°C operating temperature range. These features are delivered in a stretched SO-8 package that has a footprint 30% smaller than the standard DIP-8 package. When mounted on a PCB, it occupies a space that is a fraction of that for a traditional Hall Effect or transformer based isolation amplifier.

The series is implemented with a fully differential circuit topology with a gain accuracy of ±0.5% (ACPL-C79B), ±1% (ACPL-C79A), and ±3% (ACPL-C790). Normalized gain drift is -50 ppm/°C. With a 200 kHz bandwidth and 1.6 µs response time, the ACPL-C79x captures transients during short circuit and overload conditions. Operating from a single 5 V supply, the isolation amplifier series features an excellent nonlinearity of 0.05% and a SNR of 60 dB.

The ACPL-C79x high common-mode transient immunity of 15 kV/µs provides the precision and stability needed to accurately monitor current in high noise motor control environments. This ensures smoother control with less “torque ripple” in many motor control applications.

Pending safety and regulatory approvals include:

Isolation Amplifier Applications and Markets

Widely used for motor phase and rail current sensing, servo motor drive, switching power supply feedback isolation, DC link voltage monitoring, inverter current sensing and switching power supply feedback isolation, the ACPL-C97x targets industrial automation and instrumentation, renewable energy, and HVAC markets.

In a typical motor drive application, currents through a small value current sense resistor cause a voltage drop that is sensed by the ACPL-C79x isolation amplifier and a differential output voltage, proportional to the current, is created on the output side of the isolation barrier.

Key Features

Packaging and Temperature Range

The ACPL-C79x isolation amplifiers are available in a compact 8-pin stretched SO-8 package for automatic SMT assembly and are RoHS compliant. All devices operate over a very wide temperature range, -40 ° C to +105° C.

In order to achieve high insulation ratings, package creepage and clearance is 8 mm and distance-through-isolation, DTI, is 0.5 mm.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

Avago’s ACPL-C79B, ACPL-C79A and ACPL-C790 are priced at $6.25, $5.00 and $3.75 respectively, each in 10,000 piece quantities.

Samples and production quantities are available now through Avago’s direct sales channel and worldwide distribution partners. More information about Avago’s isolation amplifier and isolation products can be found at www.avagotech.com/optocouplers.

About Avago Technologies

Avago Technologies is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. By leveraging its core competencies in III-V compound and silicon semiconductor design and processing, the company provides an extensive range of analog, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems to approximately 40,000 end customers. Backed by strong customer service support, the company's products serve four diverse end markets: wireless communications, wired infrastructure, industrial and automotive electronics, and consumer and computing peripherals. Avago has a global employee presence and heritage of technical innovation dating back 40 years to its Hewlett-Packard roots. Information about Avago is available on the Web at www.avagotech.com

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Safe Harbor Statement

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