Fairchild Semiconductor's New Web-based Power Supply Toolkit Targets Power Design Requirements

Business Wire, May 25, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) today announced a new Web-based "Offline Power Supply Toolkit," that enables designers to dramatically reduce design cycle times while addressing specific application requirements. The Power Supply Toolkit, found at http://www.fairchildsemi.com/designcenter/acdc, features state-of-the-art tutorials, selection tools, and design aids specifically addressing AC/DC topologies.

Fairchild offers the broadest selection of products for power supply applications. This new toolkit is one element of Fairchild's Global Power Resource -- a complete power design source that includes Fairchild's six "Centers of Excellence" Power Systems Laboratories located worldwide, and online resources that address designers' specific power application needs. Fairchild's Global Power Resource offers customers a unique approach to quickly overcome challenges in power conversion, distribution, management and minimization.

Fairchild's new Power Supply Toolkit includes:

-- Tutorials -- The "Magnetic Reminder" is an easy-to-navigate

tutorial that serves as a primer on the practical application

of magnetics in power supply design;

-- Selector Tools -- Design-oriented tools use customer-defined

system criteria to aid in the selection of Fairchild products

including PWM (pulse width modulation) controllers, the

Fairchild Power Switch (FPS(TM)) family of products, optically

isolated error amplifiers, power MOSFETs, and other

components; and

-- Design Aids -- A sophisticated online tutorial allows

designers to decide between flyback, forward converter and

quasi resonant topologies; evaluate basic operation

information and advantages and disadvantages of each topology;

and review background information for choosing optimal

topology for a particular design.

"The Power Supply Toolkit is the latest example of design tools offered by Fairchild to address designers specific application and time-to-market demands," said Dr. Izak Bencuya, chief strategy officer, executive vice president and general manager, Power Discrete Group. "This new toolkit further demonstrates Fairchild's commitment to providing a complete power resource that helps customers quickly overcome power system design challenges."

About Fairchild Semiconductor

Fairchild Semiconductor 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 and automotive applications. 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, USA and numerous locations around the world. Contact us on the Web at www.fairchildsemi.com.