Fairchild Semiconductor will demonstrate innovative power solutions for real success at PCIM Europe 2012, 08-10 May, in Hall 12, booth 601, in Nuremberg, Germany. At the show, Fairchild will feature silicon and solutions that lead to customer success, including solutions for industrial power, automotive, LED lighting and DC-DC conversion.

Engineers in the automotive space are faced with the challenges of delivering inverter designs with increased efficiency, higher drive current and greater immunity to noise, especially in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and electric vehicles (EV). To help designers meet these challenges, Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, developed the FAN7171 high-current, high-side gate driver IC and...

Fairchild Semiconductor has developed the FAB2210 audio subsystem with integrated Class-G headphone amplifier and Class-D speaker amplifier to help designers of mobile devices, such as smart phones and portable media players.

Mobile device designers are faced with changing standards and a need to increase battery life, and extend talk and data transmit time. In order to help designers address these challenges, Fairchild Semiconductor has developed a power management product for the RF portion of mobile handsets and tablets.

Designers face the challenge of reducing inductor height in power supply designs in order to meet the low-profile, thinner end-system demands of applications such as Ultrabook devices and notebooks. Fairchild Semiconductor’s, FDMF6708N Generation II XS DrMOS family is a fully optimized, compact, integrated MOSFET plus driver power stage solution for high-current, high-frequency, synchronous buck DC-DC applications.

Designers are confronted with the challenge of two audio configuration jack standards – the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) L/R/M/G and Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) L/R/G/M jack pin map standards for 3.5mm audio jacks. With different jack pin maps, designers either choose to support one standard over the other, or rely on a more complex design with more components to support both standards.

Fairchild Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies today announced the extension of their compatibility partnership to encompass Fairchild's 5x6mm power stage asymmetric dual MOSFET package. Fairchild’s PowerTrench power stage dual asymmetric MOSFET modules are part of a comprehensive portfolio of advanced MOSFET technology that provides power designers with a wide range of solutions for mission critical high efficiency information processing de...

At Strategies in Light 2012, February 7-9, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., Fairchild Semiconductor, (NYSE: FCS) a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, will demonstrate LED driver applications, including the highly integrated PFC and PWM controllers which allow designers to reduce BOM count, enable smaller lamp sizes, eliminate design complexity, and improve overall lighting effi...

At APEC 2012, February 5-9, 2012, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando, Fairchild Semiconductor, will address the real energy challenges designers face every day, and will demonstrate power supply solutions featuring mWSaver technology, including energy efficient controllers for flyback designs.

Fairchild Semiconductor expands its high-performance analog mobile audio device portfolio with the introduction of the FAN3850x series of digital microphone pre-amplifiers, including the FAN3850A 16dB or 19dB gain and the FAN3850T with 15dB gain and added temperature compensation.

Designers of mobile products routinely face the challenge of reducing space as well as improving efficiency in every aspect of their design. In devices that use a one-cell Li-Ion battery pack, such as ultraportable applications, this is an area of particular importance. To help designers meet the challenge of reducing design space and increasing efficiency, Fairchild Semiconductor has developed the FDMB2307NZ PowerTrench MOSFET. This device provi...

Industrial applications present reliability challenges to designers as a result of the high temperature and tight spaces commonly found in power supplies, motor controls and consumer applications such as chargers and adapters. To combat these reliability challenges, system design engineers need an optocoupler, which allows for more design margins and has stable parameters in high temperature environments.

Fairchild Semiconductor recently received the 2011 Best Supplier Award from Eaton Asia Pacific, a US based company with regional headquarters in Shanghai. Eaton has more than 30 years experience as a component supplier for single and three-phase UPS, telecom equipment, and inverters for the PV and consumer segments. The key criteria for the Best Supplier Award were customer service, prompt delivery, product quality and reliability, cost managemen...

Fairchild Semiconductor has developed the FAN6756 PWM controller featuring mWSaver™ technology, which enables the reduction of standby power loss in the external circuit without using additional support ICs. The single-chip FAN6756 is a highly integrated green-mode PWM controller, capable of significantly reducing standby losses in SMPS designs, eliminating up to 15 external components. When compared to competitive IC solutions available today...

Les concepteurs font face au défi de la conception d'un circuit isolé (flyback) pour leur alimentation électrique et rêvent de voir leur tâche simplifiée. Fairchild Semiconductor un des principaux fournisseurs de circuits de puissance et mobiles de hautes performances, présente Power Supply WebDesigner (PSW), un outil de simulation en-ligne puissant et facile à utiliser permettant aux concepteurs de mettre leur note d'application au feu e...

Fairchild Semiconductor has launched Power Supply WebDesigner – an easy to use, powerful online simulation tool that allows designers to throw the application note away and “Auto Design,” optimise or “Advance Design” like a power supply expert.

As mobile devices become increasingly power-hungry, battery sizes have been forced to increase in capacity in order to meet the demand for longer usage time. Designers are faced with the challenge of decreasing the amount of time it takes to charge these larger batteries, minimising the thermal dissipation created during charging, and supporting enhanced features such as USB-OTG host capabilities.

As LED lighting continues to grow in popularity, especially in residential lighting applications, designers are looking for efficient dimming solutions – when compared to TRIAC methods – that also fit within existing sockets. Additionally, these solutions need to work reliably in a small space while providing high efficiency. To help designers meet this challenge, Fairchild Semiconductor has developed the FL7701 Smart Non-isolated Buck LED dr...

Fairchild Semiconductor have announced results for the third quarter ended September 25, 2011. Fairchild reported third quarter sales of $403.2 million, down 7 percent from the prior quarter and 3 percent lower than the third quarter of 2010.

Fairchild Semiconductor products will exhibit its latest technological advancements for power solutions and mobile applications at 2011 i-SEDEX in Booth # 2101, Hall 2, in KINTEX (Korea International Exhibition Center), Goyang city, Korea on October 12, 13 and 14, 2011. Fairchild Semiconductor will have a team of experts on hand conducting both static and active demonstrations surrounding application areas such as Power Supply, Motion Control, Li...