Fairchild Semiconductor Offers Industry's Smallest Packaged IGBT For Automotive Ignition Targets Improved Efficiency and Reduced Vehicle Emissions -- Available Now.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2001 Fairchild Semiconductor International (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FCS FCS - Frame Check Sequence ) announces the availability of its EcoSPARK(TM) family of IGBTs for ignition coil drivers. EcoSPARK technology, first presented at the PCIM PCIM Policy Core Information Model (IPSec) PCIM Power Conversion and Intelligent Motion (International Conference on Power Control) Europe conference in June of this year, boasts a 40 percent reduction in silicon chip area and can be packaged in either the industry standard D-Pak or D(2)-Pak. Previously, silicon ignition coil drivers were only available in D(2)-Paks. The new EcoSPARK technology enables a die size that is small enough to fit into a D-Pak without giving up performance. This size reduction makes the EcoSPARK family the smallest available solution for driving ignition coils that can deliver the function in this 60 percent boardspace-saving package. The smaller die size also makes these products extremely cost competitive. The new generation of Ignition IGBTs was developed in the Discrete Power Products Group recently acquired from Intersil. This is the second automotive product technology introduced since the March acquisition, demonstrating Fairchild's commitment to increase market share in automotive electronics. Automotive engines must have precisely controlled spark timing and sparkplug spark·plug tr.v. spark·plugged, spark·plug·ging, spark·plugs Informal To inspire or energize (an endeavor, for example). voltage to ensure high-efficiency and low-emissions. The ignition control in the powertrain systems is moving to a coil-on-plug ("pencil coil") concept. This eliminates the high-voltage wires, and with separate ignition coils for each cylinder, improves the spark control to meet increasingly lower emissions specifications. When the ignition coil drivers are mounted in the engine control units, they offer significant space savings without sacrificing performance. EcoSPARK ignition coil drivers integrate an active voltage clamp The voltage clamp is used by electrophysiologists to measure the ion currents across a neuronal membrane while holding the membrane voltage at a set level. Neuronal membranes contain many different kinds of ion channels, some of which are voltage gated. between the collector and the gate that provides self-clamped inductive switching (SCIS SCIS Southern Center for International Studies SCIS Survivable Communications Integration System SCIS Support Criminal Investigation System (UK) SCIS Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security ) and limits the stress applied to the ignition coil. The EcoSPARK series enables the same level of SCIS robustness (300mJ) in the 60 percent smaller D-Pak package. Saturation voltage is rated at 175 degrees Celsius and 10A with some products as low as 1.9V maximum. A 500mJ SCIS rated part is also being introduced that offers a cost reduction over the previous generation. The EcoSPARK family consists of 360 and 400V products in the D-Pak (TO-252) and D(2)-Pak (TO-263) packages with true single pulse collector-to-emitter avalanche energy ratings from 200mJ to 500mJ.
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For more information, contact Fairchild Semiconductor's Customer Support Center at 888/522-5372; fax 972/910-8036, or visit Fairchild's Web site www.fairchildsemi.com. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : A 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. of the datasheet for this product line is available at: http://www.fairchildsemi.com/whats_new/discrete.html About Fairchild Semiconductor Fairchild Semiconductor International (NYSE:FCS) is a leading global supplier of high performance products for multiple end markets. With a focus on developing leading-edge power and interface solutions to enable the electronics of today and tomorrow, Fairchild's components are used in computing, communications, consumer, industrial, automotive and aerospace applications. Fairchild's 11,000 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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