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I/O Protection

I am designing a data acquisition circuit. The I/O's are TTL compatible, the I/O's get damaged when ever a high voltage spike(50 V,

100us) hits the I/O's. Is there any any I/O protection circuit which I could use to guard against high voltage spikes. Thanks, Beg
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M Ihsan Baig
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On a sunny day (10 Feb 2007 11:12:35 -0800) it happened "M Ihsan Baig" wrote in :

Several exist for example: Optocoupler. Transorb.

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Jan Panteltje

Digital or analog? A series resistor and a clamp into a CMOS input will take care of some really severe transients on digital lines. If you like living dangerously, just the series resistor might be okay (probably you'll want a pullup or pulldown on the input in either case).

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Spehro Pefhany

For modest spikes, MC1489A is a common Schmitt trigger inverter that has no problem with +/- 20V input (and responds to TTL levels). That's about as robust as a cheap IC gets, you can add discrete components to go to higher tolerances (diode clamp to ground, transzorb or zener, even fuses and spark gaps).

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whit3rd

I've always just used reverse-biased diodes to the rails, with optionally a small (maybe 100 ohms) resistor or a small choke.

That's how they do it in video games, and I've never seen one fail at the inputs. (I used to fix video games.)

Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise

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