HCPL-0600-500E

HCPL-0600-500E is a Broadcom single-channel 10 MBd logic-gate optocoupler in SO-8 (tall SOIC), tape and reel, lead-free — high-speed digital isolation for fieldbus nodes, encoder interfaces and isolated logic links. The suffix is decoded on Broadcom's own family documentation: 500 is the tape-and-reel packaging option and E the lead-free option, so -500E is a standard ordering form of the HCPL-0600, not a special. Performance on the family's current datasheet (2021, which lists HCPL-0600 explicitly): open-collector Schottky-clamped output, and for this SO-8 code an input forward voltage of 1.3 V minimum to 1.80 V maximum at IF = 10 mA — the datasheet leaves the SO-8 typical blank, and the 1.5 V typical in the same table belongs to the 8-pin DIP row, so it must not be carried across packages. Propagation delay is 100 ns maximum in each direction at RL = 350 Ω, CL = 15 pF, VCC = 5 V and IF = 7.5 mA; common-mode rejection is 5 kV/µs minimum at TA = 25 °C, VCM = 1 kV, VCC = 5 V and RL = 350 Ω; isolation is 3750 Vrms; the 50 mA output figure is an absolute maximum rating, not an unconditional operating capability; supply is 4.5 to 5.5 V, with AC and DC performance guaranteed over −40 to +85 °C. Broadcom's product page for the HCPL-0600 itself — whose ordering options include this 500/XXXE tape-and-reel lead-free form — lists its lifecycle status as Active: per-model page evidence, still short of a separate live status line for every packaging option. Selection advice: against the 6N137 on this site — the same 10 MBd class in DIP-8 — this code is the surface-mount SO-8 choice; match the footprint first, then the maker. Parameters verified against Broadcom family documentation.