Power Integrations has introduced a range of 1.7kV isolated gated drivers for IGBTs and mosfets. Isolation comes from coupled inductors formed in the package lead-frame, isolated from one another by void-free package moulding compound. According to the guys on the Power Integrations stand at PCIM, they are trying to qualify to the new VDE 0884-17 …
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