Description:
The HCPL-7840 isolation amplifier family was designed for current sensing in electronic motor drives. In a typical implementation, motor currents flow through an external resistor and the resulting analog voltage drop is sensed by the HCPL-7840. A differential output voltage is created on the other side of the HCPL-7840 optical isolation barrier. This differential output voltage is proportional to the motor current and can be converted to a single-ended signal by using an op-amp as shown in the recommended application circuit. Since common-mode voltage swings of several hundred volts in tens of nanoseconds are common in modern switching inverter motor drives, the HCPL-7840 was designed to ignore very high common mode transient slew rates (of at least 10 kV/μs).
The product can also be used for general analog signal isolation applications requiring high accuracy, stability, and linearity under similarly severe noise conditions.
Application:
Motor phase and rail current sensing
Inverter current sensing
Switched mode power supply signal isolation
General purpose current sensing and monitoring
General purpose analog signal isolation
Features:
15 kV/μs common-mode rejection at VCM = 1000 V
Compact, auto-insertable standard 8-pin
0.00025 V/V/°C gain drift vs. temperature
0.3 mV input off set voltage
100 kHz bandwidth
0.004% nonlinearity
Worldwide safety approval: UL 1577 (3750 Vrms/1 min.) and CSA, IEC/EN/DIN EN 60747-5-2
Advanced Sigma-Delta (∑-Δ) A/D converter technology
Fully differential circuit topology
0.8 μm CMOS IC technology