AnalogicTech has introduced the AAT4282A, a dual, slew rate controlled load switch that allows designers to reduce parts count and cost by integrating two low resistance slew rate controlled load switches in a single 2 x 2mm package. Part of AnalogicTech’s rapidly growing application specific Power MOSFET (ASPM) product family, the AAT4282A features two MOSFETs, each with a typical RDS(ON) of just 60mohms at 5V to support higher load switch cur...

Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated (AnalogicTech) announced today the first in an extensive family of switching regulators designed for low-noise operation. Based on an innovative new (patent-pending) architecture, the AAT2120 and AAT2158 synchronous step-down converters deliver significantly lower spectral noise and output ripple than competing switching regulators. These low-noise switching regulators represent the first of several gen...

AnalogicTech has introduced the first in a family of flash LED products capable of driving either two LEDs up to 500mA or a single LED up to 1A. Designed to be used with newer-generation, high-current/high-brightness flash LEDs in mobile phones with video recording, the AAT1270 step-up current regulator delivers the high current levels needed to support flash lighting for higher resolution CCD imagers in a single 3x3mm STDFN package.

AnalogicTech has introduced the AAT1112 and AAT1145, 1.5A and 1.2A constant frequency current mode step-down converters. Available in a small, 3x3mm TDFN package, these current-mode converters require no external compensation components and offer designers highly compact and easy-to-implement solutions.

AnalogicTech has introduced two high-performance charge pump products that enable designers to build dramatically smaller, more feature-rich mobile handsets. The AAT2846 and AAT2856 combine backlight drivers, high-current flash drivers and two general purpose low-dropout (LDOs) linear regulators in a single 4x4mm package.

A huge potential market of untapped cell phone users in regions like India, China, Russia, South America and Africa want cell phone service, but can only afford very basic, entry-level, reduced-feature-set phones. With AnalogicTech’s AAT3193, designers building cell phones for these new markets can provide basic illumination for low-cost TFT-LCD panels in an extremely small footprint while requiring just two external components; a 1µF capacit...

AnalogicTech’s AAT1162 DC/DC converter’s low quiescent current significantly lowers the system’s total stand-by mode current consumption, thereby improving total power efficiency and enabling designers to more easily achieve green certifications. The AAT1162 is the first in a family of synchronous step-down DC/DC converters designed to operate from a 12V input and deliver up to 1.5A to 5V or lower outputs. Consuming an extremely low 115µA ...

AnalogicTech has introduced a P-channel current-limited MOSFET power switch for high-side load-switching applications in PC modem cards. Integrating all the circuitry required to limit current, protect the PC card connector, continuously charge the capacitor, and notify the system when it is ready for use, the AAT4620 ensures that a super capacitor - typically used to average out high pulse currents - can be quickly charged without exceeding the...

AnalogicTech’s slew rate controlled load switches have been used to replace discrete solutions in a variety of portable systems running off a 5V supply. By offering the same functionality for 12V operation, the AAT4285 allows designers - for the first time - to eliminate a discrete MOSFET and up to 11 external components in both higher-powered portable systems such as test equipment or camcorders as well as a wide range of non-portable industr...

Higher power density is a key benefit aiding engineers’ ongoing efforts to shrink their product footprint and thickness and thus build smaller micro hard disc drives, handsets, headsets, handheld instruments and other portable devices. By delivering 500mA in a tiny, 2 x 2 x 0.55mm package, AnalogicTech’s AAT1120 step-down converter allows designers to build smaller, thinner systems and still provide all the features and current found in larg...

Power density is an increasingly important consideration in a wide variety of high performance handheld systems like smart phones, GPS systems and portable media players that use high capacity batteries. Addressing this need, a linear charger from AnalogicTech offers the industry’s highest charge-current-to-solution-footprint ratio while the integration of the company’s intelligent digital thermal loop feature enables the host system to use ...

Portable system designers who want to guarantee that the battery charges at maximum available current during simultaneous system operation must typically build that functionality into the system with discrete components. By continuously monitoring the power needs of the system during operation and automatically adjusting charge current accordingly, AnalogicTech’s AAT3670 delivers the highest possible charge current to the battery and thereby m...

AnalogicTech’s AAT1210 is a high power, high current step-up converter for thin, small-footprint portable applications. Supplying up to 4.5W of power, the converter is the first to take a single-cell Lithium-ion battery voltage and boost it to a 5V/900mA output in a total solution less than 1mm in height.

In large-panel lighting applications, uniform illumination using multiple strings of series-connected WLEDs is a very difficult design objective to meet. Many existing solutions rely on PWM techniques that, using a modulating DC input voltage, produce substantial flicker. With AnalogicTech’s AAT1235 and AAT1236, designers can now employ a single boost converter with a digital interface to run five 20mA strings of up to four series-connected W...

As a growing number of smart phones and other handheld devices operating off a single-cell lithium-ion battery add higher levels of processing power and begin to serve as central computing platforms, users are demanding connectivity to other peripheral devices. By integrating a boost converter with a current-limiting load switch, AnalogicTech’s AAT1275 power management IC allows designers to boost voltage and provide the protection needed to ...

Developed with space-constrained portable applications in mind, AnalogicTech’s AAT1149 high performance, fast transient, 400mA step-down converter enables the use of the industry’s latest 0603 footprint, 1mm high inductors for the smallest possible total solution size.

By combining a high current charge pump, backlight/keypad drivers, a high output flash driver, and two general purpose LDOs in a single 4x4mm package, and by retaining independent control of the backlight/keypad and flash functions, AnalogicTech’s AAT2842 offers portable system product developers an attractive way to lower parts count, lower the system BOM cost, and build more compact systems without compromising their design flexibility or cir...

AnalogicTech has introduced the AAT2550, a highly integrated power management IC for smart phones, portable media/music players, and other handheld computing devices. Targeted at portable systems powered by single-cell lithium ion/polymer batteries rated up to 1500mAh, the highly integrated device saves PCB space by combining a 1A battery charger with two 600mA step-down converters in a small 4 x 4mm QFN package.

By combining a high performance charge pump, with backlight, flash and RGB drivers into a single 4 x 4mm IC controllable by a serial interface, AnalogicTech’s AAT2830/31 reduces parts count and system footprint, offering handset and portable system designers an exceptionally high level of integration and configurability.

By combining a flash timer and high flash current drive with 32-step digital current control, AnalogicTech’s AAT3170 delivers unprecedented ability to optimise LED flash performance for a wide variety of next generation designs while providing complete flash LED protection. The AAT3170 is a high output, high efficiency current-output charge pump IC for white LED flash applications. The device combines a 600mA dual regulated current output fla...