Highly Integrated Galvanically Isolated Systems for Data/Power Transfer

This focus paper gives a panorama of galvanically isolated power/data transfer systems. It starts from a review of state-of-the-art isolation technologies and describes most advanced system architectures. Among these, approaches capable of reducing the number of isolated links, while preserving power and data functionalities will be presented. Main research aims such as the improvement of the isolation rating, data rate, isolated power level and power efficiency, along with the isolator size and cost will be considered.