Fairchild's New Video Filter/Drivers Reduce Board Space by 20% in Consumer Video Designs; New Family of Highly Integrated Devices Significantly Improves Image Quality.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Building on its industry-leading portfolio of video-related solutions, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FCS FCS - Frame Check Sequence ) today announced a new family of highly integrated video filter/drivers -- the FMS FMS - Flexible Manufacturing System (factory automation). 6143, FMS6145 and FMS6146. Featuring fully integrated functionality, these multi-channel devices offer video designers an active approach that provides a number of design benefits. Compared to typical passive approaches, the FMS6143, FMS6145 and FMS6146 significantly decrease test and design time, reduce inventory and increase image quality in DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , LCD, TV, set-top box and other digital consumer products. These integrated video filter/drivers also eliminate the need for multiple discrete components. For example, the 6-channel FMS6146 replaces as many as 80 parts to help designers lower pick-and-place design costs and reduce board space by up to 20% in video applications. "Fairchild's integrated video filter/drivers offer more compact and reliable alternatives over discrete passive filter solutions, opening up new opportunities in high-volume applications," says Ben Takada, Fairchild's application engineering manager for video products. "The world's leading OEMs in digital consumer applications are already embracing this family of video filter/drivers based on the performance and cost-competitive benefits these devices provide." The 3-, 5- and 6-channel, 4th order filter/drivers improve image quality when used to replace discrete products in traditional 3rd order passive solutions. Compared to passive designs, they provide better inband and stopband A stopband is a band of frequencies, between specified limits, in which a circuit, such as a filter or telephone circuit, does not let signals through. Frequencies between the lower and upper limits are not transmitted. filter characteristics that reduce artifacts in video signals and result in higher image quality. By providing 8 MHz cut-off frequency and 48 dB stopband attenuation Loss of signal power in a transmission. Attenuation The reduction in level of a transmitted quantity as a function of a parameter, usually distance. It is applied mainly to acoustic or electromagnetic waves and is expressed as the ratio of power densities. , these devices meet standard definition (SD) video requirements, while allowing them to be used as anti-aliasing or reconstruction video out filter drivers. Internal diode clamps and bias circuitry enable the video filter/drivers to accommodate AC- or DC-coupled input signals. The outputs on each device can drive AC- or DC-coupled single (150 Ohms) or dual (75 Ohms) coaxial cable loads, eliminating the need for expensive output coupling capacitors and reducing design cost. The FMS6143, FMS6145 and FMS6146 are available in SOIC (Small Outline IC) A small-dimension, plastic, rectangular, surface mount chip package that uses gull-wing pins extending outward. See gull-wing lead, SOJ and chip package. and TSSOP TSSOP Thin Shrink Small Outline Package TSSOP Thin Scale Small Outline Package packages. These products are lead-free (Pb-free) and meet or exceed the requirements of the joint IPC/JEDEC standard J-STD-020B and are compliant with the European Union requirements that will take effect in 2005. The new FMS6143, FMS6145 and FMS6146 video filter/drivers add to Fairchild's growing portfolio of products, including data converters, amplifiers, MOSFETs, optocouplers, regulators, LEDs and LED drivers designed for set-top box, DVD player, HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates and other consumer applications.
Price (each, 1000 count): US $0.50--FMS6143 (3-channel, SOIC);
US $0.68--FMS6145 (5-channel, TSSOP);
US $0.76--FMS6146 (6-channel, TSSOP).
Availability: Now
Delivery: 4 weeks ARO
For more information about these products, please go to http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pf/FM/FMS6143.html, http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pf/FM/FMS6145.html and http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pf/FM/FMS6146.html. For information on other Fairchild products, design tools, and sales contacts, please visit http://www.fairchildsemi.com. Editor's Note: Datasheets of these products in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. format are available at: http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/FM/FMS6143.pdf, http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/FM/FMS6145.pdf and http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/FM/FMS6146.pdf. About Fairchild Semiconductor: Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) is the leading global supplier of high performance power products critical to today's leading electronic applications in the computing, communications, consumer, industrial and automotive segments. As The Power Franchise(R), Fairchild offers the industry's broadest portfolio of components that optimize system power through minimization, conversion, management and distribution functions. Fairchild's 9,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog & mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine South Portland is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 23,324. Geography South Portland is located at (43.631549, -70.272724)GR1. , USA and numerous locations around the world. Please contact us on the web at www.fairchildsemi.com. |
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