Isolation Development Tools
The following development tools and reference designs are available to assist with isolation design.
Isolation Evaluation Kits
Si86xx Digital Isolator Evaluation Kit |
The Si86xx Digital Isolator Evaluation Kit provides a convenient engineering breakout board for simplifying evaluations of the Si86xx isolation product family. It includes four different isolators (2, 5 and 6-channel) as well as two bidirectional I2C compliant isolators. |
| Si84xx Digital Isolator Kit |
The Si84xx Digital Isolator Kit provides a convenient engineering breakout board for simplifying evaluations of the Si84xx isolation product family with three different isolators (2, 4 and 6-channel) as well as a bidirectional I2C compliant isolator. |
Si840x IC, SMBus, PMBus Isolator Kit |
The Si840x I2C, SMBus, PMBus Isolator Kit offers an overview of the Si84xx isolation product family with three different bidirectional I2C compliant isolators and a two-channel isolator. |
Si822x ISOdriver Evaluation Kit |
The Si82xx ISOdriver evaluation kit provides a platform for evaluating several different isolated gate driver products. The board is intended to simplify basic functional testing and engineering validation of the ISOdriver devices |
Si823x ISOdriver Kit |
The Si823x ISOdriver Kit enables designers of SMPS, UPS, electronic lighting ballasts and other power delivery systems to quickly and easily evaluate the performance of the Si8234 ISOdriver in an open loop power delivery stage. |
Si85xx AC Current Sensor Evaluation Boards |
The Si85xx AC Current Sensor evaluation boards enable a simple way to evaluate the ac current sensors in an existing application, supporting either a 10 Amp or 20 Amp full scale input sense range and a 2.0 V full scale output voltage. |
Isolation Reference Designs
Si84xx Digital Isolated Communications Reference Design |
The Si84xx Digital Isolated Communications Reference Design showcases isolated RS-232, RS-485, and CAN interfaces alongside our 2.5 kV and 5.0 kV digital isolators. |
Si8420 Isolated dc-dc SMPS Reference Design |
The Isolated dc-dc SMPS Reference Design features Silicon Labs’ Si8420 digital isolator and National Semiconductor’s LM5035C pulse-width modulation (PWM) controller. The reference design demonstrates a viable 36 to 75 V input half-bridge converter for power module or embedded power applications. |
Si86xx Linear Isolation Reference Design |
The Si86xx Linear Isolation Reference Design provides a high performance alternative to expensive isolation amplifiers used to implement analog signal isolation. Includes three different analog isolation circuits supporting bandwidth from 100 to 500 kHz. |
ISOvolt Isolated Reference Design
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The ISOvolt Reference Design provides the necessary isolated power supply for the secondary side of the isolation interface with a plug and play solution for up-to 3W of isolated continuous output power with 78% efficiency, fold-back current limiting, thermal protection and flexibility to allow for 3V or 5V inputs and outputs. |