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 ...

Deep in the heart of your latest project lies a little silicon brain. Much like the brain inside your own bone-plated noggin, your microcontroller needs protection from the outside world from time to ...

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 ...

Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Opto-emulators offer a cutting-edge solution for replacing optocouplers without the shortcomings and limitations of photonic isolation, or circuit redesign. Advances in ...

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 ...