14
Figure28.Optocouplerinputtooutputcapacitancemodelfor
unshieldedoptocouplers.
Figure29.Optocouplerinputtooutputcapacitancemodelfor
shieldedoptocouplers.
Figure30.EquivalentcircuitforFigure25duringcommonmodetransient.
CMRwiththeLEDOn(CMR
H
)
A high CMR LED drive circuit must keep the LED on
during common mode transients. This is achieved by
over-driving the LED current beyond the input threshold
so that it is not pulled below the threshold during a
transient. A minimum LED current of 10 mA provides
adequate margin over the maximum I
FLH
of
8 mA to achieve 10 kV/µs CMR.
LEDDriveCircuitConsiderationsforUltraHighCMRPerformance
Without a detector shield, the dominant cause of op-
tocoupler CMR failure is capacitive coupling from the
input side of the optocoupler, through the package, to
the detector IC as shown in Figure 28. The HCPL-3180
improves CMR performance by using a detector IC with
an optically transparent Faraday shield, which diverts the
capacitively coupled current away from the sensitive IC
circuitry. However, this shield does not eliminate the ca-
pacitive coupling between the LED and optocoupler pins
5-8 as shown in Figure 29. This capacitive coupling causes
perturbations in the LED current during common mode
transients and becomes the major source of CMR failures
for a shielded optocoupler. The main design objective of
a high CMR LED drive circuit becomes keeping the LED in
the proper state (on or off ) during common mode tran-
sients. For example, the recommended application circuit
(Figure 25), can achieve 10 kV/µs CMR while minimizing
component complexity.
Techniques to keep the LED in the proper state are dis-
cussed in the next two sections.
1
3
2
4
8
6
7
5
C
LEDP
C
LEDN
1
3
2
4
8
6
7
5
C
LEDP
C
LEDN
SHIELD
C
LEDO1
C
LEDO2
R
g
1
3
V
SAT
2
4
8
6
7
5
+
V
CM
I
LEDP
C
LEDP
C
LEDN
SHIELD
* THE ARROWS INDICATE THE DIRECTION
OF CURRENT FLOW DURING –dV
CM
/dt.
+5 V
+
–
V
CC
= 20 V
• • •
• • •
0.1
µF
+
–
–
CMRwiththeLEDO(CMR
L
)
A high CMR LED drive circuit must keep the LED off (V
F
≤ V
F(OFF)
) during common mode transients. For example,
during a -dV
CM
/dt transient in Figure 30, the current
flowing through C
LEDP
also flows through the R
SAT
and
V
SAT
of the logic gate. As long as the low state voltage
developed across the logic gate is less than V
F(OFF)
, the
LED will remain off and no common mode failure will
occur.
The open collector drive circuit, shown in Figure 31,
cannot keep the LED off during a +dV
CM
/dt transient,
since all the current flowing through C
LEDN
must be
supplied by the LED, and it is not recommended for ap-
plications requiring ultra high CMR
L
performance. Figure
32 is an alternative drive circuit, which like the recom-
mended application circuit (Figure 25), does achieve
ultra high CMR performance by shunting the LED in the
off state.