Popular Digitally Programmable Potentiometer (DPP(TM)) Now Available in Ultra-Small 2 x 2.5mm TDFN Package from Catalyst Semiconductor.CAT5114 - 32-Tap, Non-Volatile Digital Potentiometer Comes in 10kO, 50kO, 100kO Versions SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CATS) a supplier of analog, mixed-signal and non-volatile memory semiconductors, today announced the availability of its popular CAT5114 Digitally Programmable Potentiometer[TM] in an 8-lead 2 x 2.5mm TDFN TDFN The Digimon Frontier Network TDFN Thin Dual-in-line Flat Package package, making it the world's smallest non-volatile digital potentiometer. This tiny form factor helps designers further compress board space in today's ever-shrinking portable products which currently use digital potentiometers in larger packages. The CAT5114 in 2 x 2.5mm TDFN can also be used to replace mechanical potentiometers and trimpots in applications including LCD screen adjustment; tamper-proof product calibration; contrast, brightness and volume control; gain adjustment; motor control and feedback systems. The CAT5114 digital potentiometer is a pin-for-pin replacement for Intersil's X9315, but offers the added choice of the very small 2 x 2.5 TDFN package. The CAT5114 is also functionally equivalent to Intersil's X93154 50kO digital potentiometer, with additional 10kO and 100 kO end-to-end resistance values and a wider supply voltage range (2.5V to 6V). The tiny CAT5114 is a 32-tap digital potentiometer featuring a user-friendly up/down control interface and non-volatile memory, which retains the wiper setting on system power-down and reinstates the setting when power is returned. The wiper can be adjusted to test new system values without affecting the stored setting. Product Features * 32-position linear taper potentiometer * Packaging: 2 x 2.5mm TDFN 8-lead (TDFN 2 x 3mm, TSSOP TSSOP Thin Shrink Small Outline Package TSSOP Thin Scale Small Outline Package , 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. , MSOP MSOP Mini Small Outline Package MSOP Mini Series of Poker MSOP Minnesota Sex Offender Program MSOP Management Stock Option Plan MSOP Memphis School of Preaching (Memphis, TN) MSOP Minimum Sum-Of-Products , PDIP (Plastic DIP) See DIP. also available) * Resistance values: 10kO, 50kO, 100kO * Non-volatile EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. wiper storage * Increment up/down serial interface * Single supply operation: 2.5V - 6V * Low standby current Price and Availability The CAT5114 digitally programmable potentiometer in 2 x 2.5mm, 8-lead TDFN packaging is priced at $0.75 each in 10,000 piece quantities. Samples are available now. Projected lead-time for production quantities is currently 6 to 8 weeks ARO. About Catalyst Semiconductor Founded in 1985, Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . The Company produces analog and mixed signal products in addition to an extensive range of non-volatile memories. The analog and mixed-signal product lines include Digitally Programmable Potentiometers (DPP[TM]), white and color LED drivers, DC/DC converters, voltage supervisors, linear regulators and I/O expanders. The memory product lines consist of serial and parallel EEPROMs, Flash and NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM) May refer to dynamic RAM (DRAM) and static RAM (SRAM) chips that are backed up by a battery or to non-volatile chips such as flash memory. See non-volatile memory, dynamic RAM, static RAM and solid state disk. . Catalyst devices are used in telecommunications, networking systems, computation, automotive, industrial and consumer markets. Typical applications include LCD displays, automotive instrumentation, optical networks, modems, wireless LANs, network cards, DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module modules, cellular telephones, digital satellite box receivers, set-top boxes and Internet routers. Catalyst's Quality Management System is ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001:2000 certified. All Catalyst products are available in "green" lead- and halogen-free versions with full RoHS compliance. For additional information about Catalyst Semiconductor, visit our website at: www.catsemi.com. Forward Looking Statements This press release contains certain forward-looking statements about Catalyst Semiconductor's digitally programmable potentiometer products, including, assertions about product availability and lead times. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to changes in customer demand, unpredictable market demand and interruptions or stoppages in our manufacturing processes and/or those of our foundries and other supply chain vendors, which can impact lead times and product availability. For additional discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, refer to Catalyst's SEC reports including, but not limited to, the report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 29, 2007. Editor Notes: 1) Trademark notices: DPP is a trademark of Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. |
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