DESCRIPTION

These low capacitance diode arrays are multiple, discrete, isolated junctions fabricated by a planar process and mounted in a 14-pin package for use as steering diodes protecting up to eight I/O ports from negative ESD, EFT, or surge by directing them to ground (pin 14)*. They may also be used in fast switching core-driver applications. This includes computers and peripheral equipment such as magnetic cores, thin-film memories, plated-wire memories, etc., as well as decoding or encoding applications.

FEATURES

• 8 Diode Array

• Molded 14-Pin SOIC Package

• UL 94V-0 Flammability Classification

• Low Capacitance 1.5 pF per diode

• Switching speeds less than 5 ns

• RoHS Compliant devices available by adding “e3” suffix

• IEC 61000-4 compatible

61000-4-2 (ESD): Air 15kV, contact – 8 kV

61000-4-4 (EFT): 40A – 5/50 ns

61000-4-5 (surge): 12A, 8/20 µs

APPLICATIONS / BENEFITS

• Low capacitance steering diode protection for high frequency data lines

• RS-232 & RS-422 Interface Networks

• Ethernet: 10 Base T

• Computer I / O Ports

• LAN

• Switching Core Drivers