Intersil's pinPOINT precision analogue product line announced

4th June 2007

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Intersil has announced its pinPOINT Precision Analogue product line featuring a wide range of low-power devices that provide unwavering signal accuracy. “The market for general purpose products that allow the precise conditioning of analogue signals is worth approximately a billion dollars” said Simon Prutton, Intersil Vice President and General Manager of Analog and Mixed Signal Products. “Through dialogue with a wide range of customers, primarily in the industrial, medical and automotive markets, we have already identified many unsatisfied needs for products that deliver improved accuracy over temperature and time. The first of those parts are launching now under the new pinPOINT™ product name and there are many more to come in future.”

Intersil’s pinPOINT family of products will feature precision voltage references, precision op amps, comparators, instrumentation amplifiers, current sensing amplifiers and data converters.
The voltage reference products included in the pinPOINT family of products will include references that offer the industry’s highest performance at the lowest power consumption. The recently released ISL21007/9 sets new standards for low noise performance at low power, while the ISL60002 reference family delivers superior accuracy while using less than 1µA of supply current.
The pinPOINT product line will also include a wide range of amplifiers that feature true precision across the entire common mode voltage range, due to their full rail-to-rail input capabilities with zero crossover distortion at very low power. Key devices in the family include the ISL28194, the industry’s lowest power consuming op amp. This device has the ability to operate down to 1.8V with a maximum supply current of just 330nA.
The micropower instrumentation amplifiers included in the pinPOINT family will enable designers to upgrade performance, save space and reduce costs. Standout devices in this family include ISL28470 which is the world’s first quad rail-to-rail input/output precision instrumentation amplifier.
All of Intersil’s pinPOINT amplifiers are specified over the full automotive temperature range (-40ºC to 125ºC), making them ideal for automotive and industrial applications. Most devices are offered in industry standard pinout package option as well as options that include enable pins that allow battery-powered applications to shut down devices and extend battery life.
Future pinPOINT releases will include high-resolution Sigma Delta analogue-to-digital converters, precision current sensing amplifiers and analogue-to-digital drivers.