Avago Technologies ACPL-224-500E - Manual

Optocouplers
Designer’s Guide
How to Use This Guide
The table of contents lists all the applications by their
general description.
Data sheets for prod ucts recommended in this guide
can be found on the Avago Technologies’ web site at
www.avagotech.com/semiconductors, or they may be
ordered from your local Avago representative.
How to Order
To order any component in this guide or additional ap-
plications information, call your authorized Avago dis-
tributor nearest you.
Although product information and illustrations in this
guide were current at the time it was approved for print-
ing, Avago Technologies, in a continuing effort to offer
excellent products at a fair value, reserves the right to
change specifications, designs, and models without
notice.
About This Designer’s Guide
Avago Technologies optocouplers can be used in an array
of isolation applications ranging from power supply and
motor control circuits to data communi cation and digital
logic interface circuits.
To help you choose and design with Avago Technologies
isolation components, this Designer’s Guide contains
popular application circuits and recom mended Avago
optocouplers.
This handbook contains sections discussing critical op-
tocoupler design parameters such as Insulation and
Withstand Voltage, Regulatory Agency Safety Standards,
Common-Mode Transient Rejection, Product Life and
light emitting diode (LED) aging. The rest of the guide
consists of application circuits.
Each application circuit is accompanied by:
1. A brief description.
2. Highlights of circuit performance.
3. Circuit benefits.
4. A list of alternative Avago parts indicating compara-
bly per form ing products available in varying package
styles for maximum design flexibility.