Clare Profile:
Clare, a wholly owned subsidiary of IXYS Corporation, located 20 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, designs, manufactures, and markets a wide variety of semiconductor devices. Clare’s wafer fabrication facility features a 600V BCDMOS process on a bonded-wafer, silicon-on-insulator, trench-isolated technology for IC development. Monolithic silicon with high voltage vertical DMOSFETS along with CMOS logic and bipolar transistors from Clare address many applications requiring a high voltage interface. In addition, Clare’s optically-isolated techniques for relays and signal processing offer high voltage isolation between the load side and the system controller.
Clare is a pioneer in the development of optically isolated Solid State Relays (SSRs), and has become a leading supplier to the Telecommunications, Security, Utility Metering, and Industrial Control industries. Clare SSR solutions are rapidly replacing older electromechanical devices in many applications, thus improving safety and lowering costs, while minimizing equipment size and enhancing overall system performance.