Fairchild Semiconductor Announces Industry's Smallest Integrated Video/Filter Driver for Sending Video Images from Cell Phones to Larger Displays

Business Wire, Jan 17, 2006

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- FMS6151 Integrates 5th Order Filter for Better Picture Quality and Battery-Saving Low-Power Consumption in a Tiny MicroPak(TM) Package

Responding to a cutting-edge trend in ultra-portable applications, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) introduces the smallest video filter/driver on the market for driving video images from cell phones to televisions, computer monitors or other larger display products. For improved application performance, the device's 5th order 8MHz standard definition (SD) filter results in better image quality and the low, 3.8mA supply current with power down to 25nA extends battery life. Packaged in a 6-terminal MicroPak(TM)package measuring only 1.45mm x 1.0mm x 0.55mm, the FMS6151 helps designers reduce board space and lower design costs.

"One of the hottest applications on the horizon is driving a composite video signal from a cell phone to a TV or other large display product for easier viewing," said Bob Vinton, Fairchild's product line manager, Signal Conditioning Products. "But when this signal conversion takes place, frequency artifacts from the DAC reconstruction process can adversely affect the video image. To improve image quality, our new FMS6151 video filter/driver uses a 5th order butterworth low-pass filter that provides better stop band attenuation compared to typical 2nd and 3rd order solutions. The FMS6151 helps designers by integrating battery-saving low-power consumption and image-enhancing filtering capability into a single package so small it can be poured from a salt shaker!"

Barron's Online recently predicted that in 2006 U.S. cell phone users will be able to watch as many as 20 TV channels on their cell phones(1). Fairchild estimates that approximately 80 million of the total handsets produced in 2006 will be capable of receiving digital video broadcasts. Extending its integrated video filter product line into this high-growth ultra-portable arena, Fairchild specifically tailored the FMS6151 to help designers save space and cost, while providing performance benefits for cell phones, portable media players, digital still cameras, PDAs and other hand-held display products.

The FMS6151 provides a number of key features for design simplicity and space savings in ultra-portables:

--2.7V to 5V operation increases flexibility by accommodating different power supply requirements;

--DC-coupled inputs simplify and ease the Video DAC (digital-to-analog converter) interface;

--A choice of AC- or DC-coupled outputs increases design flexibility;

--DC-coupled outputs eliminate the need for AC-coupling caps, lowering cost and preventing "tilt" in the video signal;

--For AC-coupled outputs, SAG correction reduces required cap size, lowering cost; and

--75Ohm cable drivers eliminate external drive components.

The FMS6151 comes in a lead (Pb)-free 6-terminal MicroPak(TM) package that meets or exceeds the requirements of the joint IPC/JEDEC standard J-STD-020B and is compliant with the European Union requirements now in effect.

Price (each): US $0.35 (1000 pcs)
Availability: Samples and demo board available now
Delivery:     8 weeks ARO

For more information about this product, please go to http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pf/FM/FMS6151.html.>

Fairchild's extensive portfolio of video and imaging ICs supports multimedia, consumer, imaging, graphics and HDTV applications. Products include video filters and drivers, data converters, amplifiers, video encoders, uSerDes(TM) (micro-SerDes), LVDS, USB, analog switches, MOSFETs, optocouplers and regulators. For information on other Fairchild products, design tools, and sales contacts, please visit http://www.fairchildsemi.com.

Editor's Note: For a datasheet in PDF format, please go to http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/FM/FMS6151.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. Fairchild's 9,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog & mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products. Please contact us on the web at www.fairchildsemi.com.

(1) Barron's Online. December 8, 2005.