Most efficient, effective and flexible solution
Nijmegen, March 14th, 2017: Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, announced today three new series of common mode EMI filters with integrated ESD protection:PCMFxUSB3S,PCMFxHDMI2S and PESDxUSB3S, whichprovide support for USB3.1 Type C, HDMI2.0 and MIPI M-PHY interfaces. Using the same footprint,Nexperia’s industry-leading TrEOS ESD protection diodesare offered in the same package.System engineers will benefit from having a single device instead of two (common mode filter plus TrEOSESD protection component)saving PCB space and improving reliability anddesign flexibility.With both solutions available in the same package, designers can determine at a late stage whether they need to include EMI filtering at all without being concerned about PCB layout spins. Also, the same board layout will be suitable for all markets, whether filtering is required or not. Furthermore, the new integrated common mode filters feature an extremely wide differential passband of more than 6 GHz.
Nexperia’s TrEOS ESD protection technology delivers extremely low capacitance to maintain excellent signal integrity, low clamping voltage/dynamic resistance to protect the system chip, and high ESD and surgeruggedness. By using active silicon-controlled rectification, none of these parameters are compromised. Theresult isanextremelyfast turn-on time of about0.5nsthat enables devices to withstand up to 20kV contact discharge. This exceeds level 4 of the IEC 61000-4-2 standard.
Stefan Seider, product manager at Nexperia, comments, “Portable devices such as smartphones are getting smaller, requiring transmission standards such asWi-Fi, Bluetooth and LTE together with USB3.1 data frequencies. Our combinational PCMF filters are a highly efficient solution as they are the only devices available on the market to offer both ESD protection and EMI filtering in a single package with the same footprint as ESD-only protection diodes, both for USB3.1 data rates. Therefore, Nexperia offers the best RF performance, common mode rejectionat the critical frequencies and ESD clamping, and designers can change between common mode filters with ESD and ESD-protection-only without changing the footprint.”
The newest high-performance transceiver ICs increasingly require an additional inductance in line to achieve 15 kV IEC61000-4-2 system-level contact ESD discharge robustness. Nexperia’s PCMF-series provides this protecting inductance against common-mode or single-ended noise, such as ESD or surge pulses, without disturbing the differential USB3.1 or HDMI2.0 signal.
Nexperia’s PCMF combinational EMI and ESD filters are available now; visit www.nexperia.com/protection.
