Comment on Questions about the insides of this optocoupler (TLP250)
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Triangle is an amplifier and rectangle is a black box (“don’t worry what’s in here, we promise it’s not gremlins”).
I suspect that the box might be a biasing array for driving the two output transistors, but then I would also expect two wires to come out of it (one for each transistor) rather than a single combined wire.
Broadcom’s datasheet for their version of the part seems to be more akin to what I’m thinking:
Could be either. You’d have to decap the chip to find out, the datasheet writers thought these details were not important.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
It’s where they store the magic smoke.