March 2009

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

Table of Contents

• New Products  
• Application Notes/Reference Designs/Podcasts 
• Energy Efficiency
• Fairchild in the News
• Seminars/Events

Simplify Design and Reduce Board Space in Power Supplies and Battery Chargers with Fairchild's PSR PWM Controller

The FSEZ1216 is a highly integrated primary side regulation pulse width modulation controller. This controller enables higher levels of efficiency in battery chargers and power supplies.

Minimize Standby Power in Battery Chargers with Fairchild's PSR Controller

The FAN102 is a highly integrated PSR PWM controller that saves power and simplifies design for battery charger applications. It features a proprietary green-mode function that provides off-time modulation to linearly decrease the PWM frequency under light load conditions, resulting in lower standby power consumption.

Achieve Excellent Isolation in Industrial Applications with Fairchild's 3.3V Logic Gate Optocoupler

The FOD8001 is a  3.3/5V high-speed logic gate optocoupler that achieves high noise immunity through optimized IC design and through Fairchild's patented coplanar packaging technology, Optoplanar® It is ideal for programmable logic control, isolated data acquisition systems and industrial fieldbus communications.

Achieve Higher Efficiency in Non-Isolated DC-DC Conversion Designs with Fairchild's TinyBuck™ Solution

This 6A single supply synchronous Buck regulator, the FAN21SV06, enables designers of telecom, graphic cards and consumer electronics to achieve high efficiency in a small form factor. 

Minimize Standby Power in Switch Mode Power Supplies and PC-ATX Power Supplies with Fairchild's Dual PWM Combination Controller

The FAN6791 is a highly integrated dual PWM combination controller that features a proprietary green mode function to minimize standby power and help switch mode and PC-ATX power supplies meet energy-efficiency specifications.

Minimize Conduction Losses in AC-DC Power Conversion Applications with Fairchild's 600V SuperFET™ MOSFET

The FCA47N60F, a 600V N-Channel MOSFET utilizes an advanced charge balance mechanism for excellent on-resistance and low gate charge performance.  It minimizes conduction losses, provides superior switching performance and can withstand high avalanche energy.

AN-6086 Design Considerations for Interleaved PFC

AN-4121 Design of a PFC Circuit Using FAN7527B

AN-6083- Highly Integrated, Dual-PWM Combination Controller

AN-6085-Secondary Synchronous Rectifier for Quasi-Resonant Controllers<

Reference Designs
Explore Fairchild's comprehensive portfolio of reference designs that increase efficiency, reduce board space and bring your products to market faster.

PFC Podcast

Learn about the ways that Power Factor Correction can conserve energy.

Fairchild Semiconductor Named a Finalist in the EETimes ACE Award for "Best Enabler of Green Engineering"

Fairchild is a runner up in this prestigious award that recognizes the creators of technology that demonstrate leadership and innovation in green engineering.  Fairchild's focus on delivering energy and space efficient products to reduce our global footprint is pivotal in today's world where global sustainability is a compelling concern.  See how Fairchild is greening the world in the applications you use!

Fairchild's April e-Calendar features renewable energy applications. Harnessing the power of the sun and wind are important ways of conserving our environment and offering alternatives to the use of fossil fuels.  The energy produced by 100,000 3kW photovoltaic units can replace one coal-fired power plant.

ESD Protection Design for Discrete Semiconductors

DC-DC Conversion: The Need to Balance Efficiency Across the Entire Load Spectrum

Signal Paths in 3G and Feature/Smart Phone Applications

Model Current-Mode Control with Ease and Accuracy

One Device - Several Possibilities

Join Fairchild at an upcoming Power Seminar in Europe in 2009!

Tuesday, March 31 - Milano, Italy
Wednesday, April 1 - Firenze, Italy
Thursday, April 2 - Padova, Italy
Tuesday, April 21 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Wednesday, April 22 - Vienna, Austria
Thursday, April 23, - Brno, Czech Republic

PCIM Europe 2009

Join Fairchild May 12-14 in Nuremburg, Germany, for PCIM Europe 2009, Europe's leading exhibition and conference for experts in the field of Power Electronics and its application in Intelligent Motion and Power Quality. In booth 601, Fairchild will demonstrate technologies that maximize energy efficiency, highlighting its newest solutions for AC/DC power supplies, DC/DC conversion, lighting, motion control, automotive and industrial control applications. Fairchild technologists will present four papers and two forums.