Easy-to-Use Web-Based Utility Eliminates Guesswork and Enables System
Power Budget Assessment in Minutes
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Silicon
Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance,
analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today introduced a web-based Isolator
Power Consumption Calculator that streamlines the process of
assessing system power budgets for applications requiring digital
isolation. The free online utility enables developers to define basic
information about their isolation set-up and then calculate the power
consumption in a matter of minutes.
The power consumption calculator is especially helpful for
power-sensitive and thermally constrained designs in small enclosures
such as industrial process control modules or programmable logic
controllers. In these and similar designs, the developer must understand
the power consumption of every component in the system including the
digital isolator.
The calculator is intuitively easy to use. The user simply selects the
settings that match the design such as total number of channels, VDD
supply voltage and individual channel parameters, and then clicks "Get
Results" to obtain detailed power and current data.
Without access to such a tool, the developer would need to extrapolate
power specifications from data sheets or conduct extensive calculations
and then guess at some of the isolation parameters. The calculator tool
eliminates the guesswork. Instead of spending hours studying data
sheets, picking parameters and making judgment calls based on systems
characteristics to determine the impact on the system power budget, the
utility speeds up the entire process to just a few minutes.
"System developers are extraordinarily busy, and we developed the
Isolator Power Consumption Calculator to help simplify the design
process," said Ross Sabolcik, product line director for Silicon Labs'
digital isolation products. "We believe the power of web-based utilities
can be leveraged to make the developer's job significantly easier,
enabling more streamlined system development and faster time to market."
The Isolator Power Consumption Calculator is available free at www.silabs.com/isolator-power-calculator.
It can be used online or downloaded for offline use by developers. The
calculator is one of several web-based utilities developed by Silicon
Labs to simplify system design: http://www.silabs.com/support/training/pages/default.aspx.
About Silicon Labs Digital Isolators
Silicon Labs' Si84xx
and Si86xx
digital isolator families use a novel RF isolation architecture
fabricated in a standard CMOS to deliver a highly integrated
one-to-six-channel isolator that is one-third the size of optocoupler
solutions, reducing the cost of the bill of materials by as much as 50
percent. These digital isolators provide a smaller, faster and more
reliable isolation solution than optocouplers without the wear-out
mechanisms, aging effects or temperature dependencies that plague
optocoupler-based designs. Silicon Labs' digital isolators employ an RF
coupler to transmit digital information across an isolation barrier,
enabling very high-speed operation at low power levels. They also offer
best-in-class electromagnetic (EMI) immunity among digital isolation
solutions.
Silicon Labs' digital isolators are designed to replace optocouplers in
applications requiring robust operation and high levels of insulation
protection such as industrial automation and drives, motor control and
medical systems. They also provide an ideal isolation solution for
systems powered from 220 Vac mains supplies such as isolated ac-dc and
dc-dc power supplies, as well as solar panel microinverters, data
communications systems and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs).
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories is an industry leader in the innovation of
high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Developed by a
world-class engineering team with unsurpassed expertise in mixed-signal
design, Silicon Labs' diverse portfolio of patented semiconductor
solutions offers customers significant advantages in performance, size
and power consumption. For more information about Silicon Labs, please
visit www.silabs.com.
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