NVE Sensor and Isolator News
October 2009
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Online Store Expands

New Voicemail

“Hot” Product

Halloween Apps Corner


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In the News
NVE was prominently covered in a recent EDN cover story, “Draw the line: Isolation shields systems from shocking surprises.”


You must design isolation into your circuits if you want to ensure user safety, eliminate ground loops, and reduce noise.
 
      —EDN

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Online Store Expands

More parts were recently added to the NVE online store, including more magnetic digital switches and RoHS-compliant parts.

The online store now includes over 200 of the industry’s best sensors and isolators, plus evaluation kits, magnets, and peripheral ICs.

Virtually all parts are in stock and available for same-day shipment.

As always, there’s no minimum order and no handling charge, and most orders qualify for $9.95 flat rate shipping within North America.

Customers outside North America can order through our extensive worldwide distribution network.

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New Central Voicemail

Telephone
A new voicemail system is handling NVE’s increasing customer call volume and allowing fast call self-routing. The expanded main menu options include direct access to the Sensor and Isolator applications desks.

Our North America customer hotline number remains
(800) GMR-7141
. Customer options are:

Telephone  Hotline
 Option
Department
1 Sensor Sales
2 Sensor Applications
3 Isolator Sales
4   Isolator Applications  
 
The current background music highlights NVE’s unique combination of magnetics and electronics, which provides unprecedented miniaturization, precision, speed, and ruggedness:

Song Artist  Lyrics 
  It’s a Magnet   Dorothy Collins
Electricity   Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans  
 
We’re committed to making sure you don’t listen to hold music for long. So if you just want to hear the new background music without talking to anyone, call our automated attendant at (952) 996-1639 and select option 9.

 

“Hot” Product
T-Series High-Temperature Isolators
because the world’s not always cool...


IL700T-Series high-temperature digital
T-Series
isolators operate to 125°C with no derating. The devices are 100% tested at temperature and proven in the most demanding demanding military, aerospace, and industrial applications.

Other features include:
  • 110 Mbps Data Rate
  • 2 ns Typical Pulse Width Distortion
  • 3.3 V or 5.5 V Power Supply
  • 2.5 kVrms Isolation (1 min.)
  • UL1577 & IEC 61010-1 Approved
  • MSOPs; 0.3" and 0.15" SOIC-16

All part types are in stock and available for same-day shipment, with no minimum order:
 
 Part Number    Temp.   Transmit
 Channels 
Receive
 Channels 
Packages
IL710T 125°C 1 0 MSOP‑8,
SOIC‑8,
PDIP‑8
IL711T 125°C 2 0 MSOP‑8,
SOIC‑8,
PDIP‑8
IL712T 125°C 1 1 MSOP‑8,
SOIC‑8,
PDIP‑8
IL715T 125°C 4 0 0.15" SOIC‑16,
0.3" SOIC‑16
IL716T 125°C 2 2 0.15" SOIC‑16,
0.3" SOIC‑16
IL717T 125°C 3 1  0.15" SOIC‑16,
0.3" SOIC‑16
 
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Halloween Application Corner
PumpkinIsolating Scary Voltages

By Sandy “the Count” Templeton
Director, Isolator Product Development and Applications

Witches, werewolves, vampires, and line voltage top the list of things electronic designers don’t want to deal with.

Fortunately we have the silver bullet for line-voltage interfaces: isolators.

But not just any isolators. Optocouplers can wear out and may be damaged by ac inputs. Digital-input isolators are tricky to interface to high voltage.

IL600-Series passive input isolators provide immortality and require only simple resistive current limiting to interface to virtually any input voltage.

In this illustrative circuit, “Monitor Out” goes low when line voltage exceeds approximately 100 V, and high when line voltage drops below approximately 10 V:

Isolated 120 VAC Line Monitor
 
Isolated 120 VAC Line Monitor

An open-drain output version is shown for added flexibility handling output voltage goblins.

So happy Halloween, and don't let line voltage ghosts scare you.

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