Providing electrical isolation is often essential in power system designs; keeping high and low voltage domains electrically separate prevents current flowing between them, which could otherwise lead to serious safety issues. Of course, it is still necessary and possible for isolated domains to interact, by allowing data to pass between them.

Though isolation is commonplace, implementing it effectively can still be problematic, especially as we move to ever greater levels of system integration. Its primary purpose is safety, but it can also improve performance by maximizing common mode transient immunity (CMTI), which is one of the main reasons why isolation is used in the automotive industry. Another reason, particularly in electric vehicles, is to support power conversion and level shifting between voltage domains.

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