Thick-film chip resistor dividers save space and simplify designs

Vishay has introduced a new series of thick-film chip resistor dividers designed to reduce space requirements, simplify manufacturing designs, and increase design flexibility in high-voltage industrial and alternative energy equipment. Available in a wide range of termination styles, materials, and configurations, the CDMV series devices offer working voltages up to 1.4kV and provide a single-component replacement for multiple discrete resistors used in voltage division applications. Consisting of two resistors integrated into a single 2512 case size, the space-saving devices released today offer a wide resistance range from 10 kohm to 75 Mohm, with maximum resistance ratios to 700:1 and tolerances down to ± 0.5%. The chip dividers feature temperature coefficients of ± 100 ppm/C and typical TCR tracking of ± 50 ppm/C. For design flexibility, CDMV series devices are available with solderable, epoxy-bondable, and wire-bondable terminations in three-sided wraparound or top-only flip chip configurations. Solder-coated nickel barrier terminations are standard for the RoHS-compliant, halogen-free chip dividers, with gold, palladium silver, platinum gold, platinum silver, and platinum palladium gold terminations available.