Erik,

My remark was meant to be taken ironically. MAX250, MAX251, transformer, opto's.... Get it? :-)

Perhaps you were referring to some other Maxim device, but the only thing that came up when I searched with "isolated" as spec was this 250-251 combo and that just didn't seem much of an improvement to me...

Anyway, most PCB designers would call it a rat's nest :-D

Have fun too,
Rob.