High-power industrial applications such as solar power inverters, motor drives, and UPS (uninterruptible power supply) require gate driver optocouplers that provide high performance and critical protection features. Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) has developed the FOD8316 smart gate driver optocoupler, an advanced 2.5A output current IGBT drive optocoupler, to help designers address these technical challenges.

The FOD8316 optocoupler provides critical protection necessary to prevent failure conditions that cause destructive thermal runaway in IGBTs. This new product family features high-speed isolated feedback for fault detection and is optimized for driving high-speed switching power IGBTs and MOSFETs. The device consists of an integrated gate drive optocoupler featuring a CMOS transistor with low RDS(ON) characteristics capable of driving an IGBT in a rail-to-rail state.


Features and Advantages:
• Provides 2.5A output current drive performance for most 1,200V/150A IGBTs
• CMR: High noise immunity characterized by 35kV/µsec @Vcm-1500Vpk
• 1,414V maximum operating insulation voltage and 8,000V maximum instantaneous insulation voltage rating
• Rail-to-rail output voltage swing for low power consumption
• Soft IGBT Turn-Off
• High Speed: 500 ns propagation delay
• 3.3V/5V, CMOS/TTL for logic input

Fairchild supports customers in accelerating innovation in their designs by developing solutions such as the FOD8316 as part of Fairchild’s comprehensive portfolio, which includes high-performance optocouplers, power management ICs, high-voltage gate driver ICs, and discrete IGBTs/MOSFETs. The FOD8316 provides superior noise immunity through Fairchild’s proprietary Optoplanar® coplanar packaging technology. Optoplanar technology ensures a safe insulation thickness of 0.4 mm or more, which can secure reliable high-voltage insulation characteristics certified by UL1577 and DIN EN/IEC60747-5-5 standards.

Packaging and pricing information (based on a supply volume of 1,000 units)
Samples available upon request – Delivery time: 8–12 weeks after order placement
• Available in 16-lead SOIC packages, FOD8316 is $3.50 and FOD8316V is $3.52.
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Editor's Note: For the data sheet in PDF format, please refer to the link below : http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/FO/FOD8316.pdf