NVE Sensor and Isolator News
----
   March 2014 Electrifying  News  From  NVE
----
----
In This Issue
25 Years

New Distributor

Recent Exhibition

Thermal Characteristics
----

----
Quick Links
Sensor Selector Guide

Isolator Selector Guide

Online Store

Contact Us
----

----
New Products
AAT003-10E TMR angle sensor
----

----
New Documents
Isolator Catalog rev. O
(includes new QSOP Isolators and other new parts)

Application Bulletin 24:
IsoLoop Isolators have excellent thermal characteristics (see story at right)
----

----
Spring Forward
Spring Forward
Daylight
 Saving Time
begins Sunday, March 9. Set your clocks forward an hour.

It’s also a good time to check smoke detectors and the thermal resistance of your isolators (see story at right).
----

----
St. Patrick’s Riddle
ShamrockQ. Why did St. Patrick drive all the snakes out of Ireland?
 
A. It was too far for them to crawl.
----
NVE’s 25-Year Anniversary
 
25 Years of Leadership  
NVE is celebrating its 25-year anniversary in March.

The company was founded in March 1989 as Nonvolatile Electronics, Inc. by Dr. James M. Daughton, a spintronics pioneer. Its first product, a ground-breaking GMR sensor, was introduced in 1994.

NVE is planning to celebrate with the world’s largest birthday cake (the current record is 130,000 pounds)*, and a spectacular fireworks display in the company lobby.**

Some highlights of the past 25 years:
    •   Two EDN Hot 100 Product awards
An EE Product News Top 20 Product
A Forbes Top Small Public Company four times
•   An Electronic Business' 30 Best Small Electronics Company
Two Technology Fast 50 awards and a Fast 500 award
A Tekne Innovation Award
 
*It might be scaled back to a half-sheet cake from Supervalu.
**Fireworks may be canceled due to safety issues.
 
New Distributor Down Under
Active Components
 
G'day to our new mates in Australia and New Zealand. Active Components is now distributing NVE’s award-winning IsoLoop Isolator product line.

Active Components has a number of offices in Australia and New Zealand, and is considered the largest electronic component distributor in New Zealand.
 
Recent Exhibitions
 
Embedded World 2013
Billed as the number one event for the embedded community, Embedded World is underway in Nürnberg, Germany. Distributor HY LINE Power Components is showing IsoLoop isolators. Isolated Bus Transceivers are popular for embedded applications.
 
From the Application Desk
 
IsoLoop Isolators Have
Excellent Thermal Characteristics

 
A frequent question to our Isolator applications desk is what is the thermal resistance of our isolator packages.

Award-winning IsoLoop® Isolators have excellent thermal characteristics, enabling the parts to run at high speed and high ambient temperatures with minimum temperature rises. This provides wide operating margin and contributes to exceptional reliability.

Thermal-related terms and symbols are illustrated as follows:


 
Thermal Terms and Symbols
 
Typical IsoLoop thermal specifications for NVE's most popular package types are summarized in the following table (specifications may vary slightly between models, so refer to datasheets for exact parameters):
 
Symbol Package  Typ.   Max.   Units 
θJA 3 mm MSOP-8
0.15" SOIC-8
0.15" SOIC-16
0.3" SOIC-16
80
60
60
60
°C/W
ΨJT 3 mm MSOP-8
0.15" SOIC-8
0.15" SOIC-16
0.3" SOIC-16
40
10
10
20
°C/W
PD 3 mm MSOP-8
0.15" SOIC-8
0.15" SOIC-16
0.3" SOIC-16
500
675
700
800
mW
 
Thermal Specifications for Popular IsoLoop Packages
(soldered to double-sided board; free air)
 
The junction-ambient thermal resistances for SOIC-8, narrow-body SOIC-16, and wide-body SOIC-16 packages are similar. This is because higher case-to-ambient thermal resistance in the smaller packages is offset by lower junction-case thermal resistances since they are thinner and have relatively large leadframe areas. This convenient coincidence allows one derating curve for three package types (MSOP packages have higher junction-ambient thermal resistances).
 
For more information, download this bulletin:
More Info (.pdf; Application Bulletin No. 24) >
Subscribe