Enhances robustness in harsh environments; streamlines manufacturing logistics

Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in gate-driver technology for medium- and high-voltage inverter applications, today introduced factory conformal coating for its SCALE™ IGBT and MOSFET drivers.Conformal coating enhances system reliability by protecting electronic components against contaminants such aspollution, dust andcondensation, which may cause corrosion.Power Integrations’ factory-coated gate driversreduce inventory cost, lead time and overall cost of ownership by eliminating the need formanufacturers to send boards to subcontractors for cleaning and coating.

Power Integrations uses an advanced acryliclacquer,broadly used in the industrial and automotive sectors. The highly automated process is qualified in accordance with IEC 60068-2 tests,and is followed by100% optical inspectiontoensureconsistent quality. Conformallycoated SCALE gate-driver cores are UL^® recognized components.

Initially, the 2SC0106T, 2SC0108T, 2SC0435T, 2SP0115T and 1SP0335gate-driver families will be offered with conformal coating, followed by the  2SD300C17, 2SC0535T, 2SC0635T, 2SP0320 and 1SP0635V series in the near future. All future products will also include factory coating, as an option.

Comments Michael Hornkamp, senior director of marketing for gate-driver products at Power Integrations: “Customers in wind inverters, traction inverters, HVDC MMC stations, photovoltaics and industrial drives whereharsh environments are routinely encountered benefit from a factory conformal-coating process. By testing, cleaning and coating the boards in our facility, we reduce the opportunity for the units to be contaminated prior to coating, and we eliminate the time, cost and inconvenience of using third-party subcontractors.”

Technical support for the gate drivercores isavailable from the Power Integrations website at https://www.power.com/technology/conformal-coating.