Technologies

Isolation

Increase safety with higher reliability isolation at a lower system cost

What technologies exist for galvanic isolation? Galvanic isolation is a method of electrically separating two domains, allowing power or signals to transfer across the barrier without compromising human safety, while also preventing ground potential differences and improving noise immunity. Our portfolio of proprietary isolation techniques, including a robust capacitive SiO2 insulation barrier and integrated IC transformer-based magnetic isolation, helps exceed Verband der Elektrotechnik (VDE), Canadian Standards Association (CSA) and Underwriters Laboratory (UL) standards without compromising performance.

Benefits of our isolation technology

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Improved system robustness & reliability

Our portfolio of high-voltage isolated products achieves low latency, excellent common-mode transient immunity and robust performance.

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Lower system cost

Our isolation technologies reduce bill of materials, lowering system cost and enabling significant solution size improvements. 

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Scalability 

Our packaging innovations and globally-owned manufacturing footprint help bring functional, basic, and reinforced isolation capabilities to more analog IC functions.

Featured reference designs for isolation

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Overcurrent and overtemperature protection for solid-state relays reference design

This reference design shows how to achieve overcurrent and overtemperature protection for a solid-state relay. The reference design features the TPSI3050-Q1 5-kVRMS reinforced isolated switch driver. TPSI3050-Q1 device integrates a laminate transformer to achieve isolation while transferring signal (...)

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Automotive SPI-programmable gate driver and bias supply with integrated transformer reference design

This reference design provides isolated-bias supply and isolated-gate driver for power switches in traction inverters and onboard chargers. Both the bias power and driver provide the high isolation (3-kV RMS for one minute) needed for 800-VDC bus application. The isolated bias provides 24 VDC both (...)

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AFE for insulation monitoring in high-voltage EV charging and solar energy reference design
This reference design features an electric bridge DC insulation monitoring (DC-IM) method which allows an accurate symmetrical and asymmetrical insulation leakage detection mechanism and an isolation resistance detection mechanism. We present a new generation of isolated amplifiers and switchers (...)