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July 2008

 This issue of Power News highlights our latest technologies, application notes, awards and news.

Table of Contents

  • New Products
  • Application Notes
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Awards
  • Fairchild in the News
  • Seminars/Events
New Products

Minimize On-State Resistance With Fairchild's N-Channel PowerTrench® MOSFET

The FDS5351 is a 60V N-Channel MOSFET that is ideal for inverter switches, synchronous rectifiers and load switches.  Designed with PowerTrench technology, it offers ultra-low RDS(ON), while maintaining superior switching performance.

Product Number

Polarity

Configuration

VDS

(V)

RDS(ON) @VGS =10

(mOhm)

RDS(ON) @VGS =4.5

(mOhm)

QG

(nC)

Package

N

Single

60

35

42

9

SO-8

 

Simplify Design in Secure Digital (SD) Applications With Fairchild's Voltage Translator

The FXL2SD106 is a low voltage, dual supply SD translator that features built-in automatic direction control.  This feature allows the device to sense and control the direction the data should flow, eliminating a direction pin and reducing the number of pins from 20 to 16.

 

Product Number

 

VCCA Supply Range

(V)

 

VCCB

Supply Range

(V)

 

Bit Widths

 

Detection Control

 

Speed Reference A to B

1.8V to 3.3V

(ns)

 

Data Rate between 1.8V and 2.5V

(Mbps)

 

Package

1.1 to 3.6

1.1 to 3.6

6

Automatic

 5

80

DQFN-16

Application Notes

Energy Efficiency

Fairchild helps designers to develop energy-efficient designs.

Lighting represents 19 percent of electricity consumption worldwide.  The conversion from incandescent light bulbs to fluorescent or LED lighting can result in 75 percent energy savings.  Fairchild's comprehensive portfolio of ballast control ICs, IGBTs, MOSFETs, HVICs, PFC/PWM controllers, Green FPS switches, transistors, rectifiers, diodes and optocouplers improve efficiency and performance in CFL, LFL and LED lighting.

Green Note: If 50% of the 370 million households in China switched from incandescent bulbs to CFL bulbs that included Fairchild components, enough power would be saved, just from an average of five 60 Watt bulbs, to light over 5.8 million homes!

Awards

 

Fairchild Semiconductor Presents Distributor of the Year Award for 2007 to Future Electronics Europe

Fairchild has awarded Future Electronics Europe "Distributor Of The Year 2007" for their outstanding point-of-sale (POS) revenue and operations management performance. This is the first time Future Electronics Europe has received Fairchild’s prestigious distributor award.

Vote for Fairchild's Green FPSTM Power Switch

Fairchild Semiconductor’s FSFR2100 is a highly integrated Green FPS™ power switch  is a finalist in the E-Legacy award for Contribution to Sustainability.  This power switch offers a dramatic improvement in efficiency in resonant converter designs such as telecom power, high end audio amplifiers, large size laser printers and LCD and PDP TV power supplies. Compared to conventional hard-switch converter topologies, efficiency is improved by 10 percent and for applications such as PDP-TVs, efficiency reaches 97 percent.

Fairchild Semiconductor Receives Assodel's Best Manufacturer Award in the Power Category

Fairchild was awarded the 2008 Assodel Award in the power category for the semiconductor supplier who most remarkably differentiated and performed in the Italian market over the previous year.  This award was based on the votes of 650 individual experts including designers, manufacturers, buyers and technical representatives.

 

Fairchild in the News

Published in Electronic Design

Maintain Power-Conversion Efficiency While Saving PCB Space

Published in Components in Electronics

MOSFET Gate Drivers Improve Efficiency and Simplify Design

Published in ConnectingIndustry.com

Improving the Efficiency of Power Conversion Circuitry in the Active Mode

Published in Connecting Industry.com

Synchronous Rectification in Power Supplies

Seminars/Events

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Save the date for Fairchild's 2008-2009 power seminars!  See when these seminars are coming to a city near you!

 

Fairchild to Participate in EBV Tech Trends 2008

Join Fairchild at EBV Tech Trends Symposium 2008, a venue which will provide designers, developers and project leaders in the electronics industry with in-depth technical insight into our latest product offerings.

FAEs from Fairchild Semiconductor, along with our partner EBV Elektronik, will share technical solutions in the areas of Power Management, Motion Control and LED Technologies. Along with display stands and demonstrations at the symposium, attendees can also discuss their design problems with the professionals from Fairchild and EBV.
  

 

 

 

 
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