Fairchild Semiconductor Offers Industry's Best Combination of SD/PS/HD Video Filter/Drivers for Consumer Video Designs

Business Wire, Jan 5, 2006

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- FMS6690 / FMS6246 / FMS6346 Family Expands Fairchild's Leadership Position While Providing Flexibility for Space and Cost Savings for Digital Set-Top Boxes

Reinforcing its position as the number one supplier of integrated video filter/drivers for the digital set-top box market, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) announces a family of video filter/drivers with the best combination of filtering flexibility, allowing designers to maintain high performance in the video signal path while optimizing system cost. With selectable standard definition (SD), progressive scan (PS) and high-definition (HD) filtering capability, this video filter/driver family allows designers to tailor the right combination of two filter frequencies to their specific design requirements. These highly integrated video filter/drivers were designed as an alternative to discrete solutions by replacing passive LC filters and drivers for board space savings of up to 50%. In addition to set-top boxes, these devices are ideal for use in DVDs, digital TVs and other consumer video products.

Fairchild's FMS6690 / FMS6246 / FMS6346 family of 6-channel, 6th order video filter/drivers stands apart from competitive devices by allowing designers to select the combination of SD/PS/HD filters best suited to their system needs. These devices offer higher levels of integration than previously achievable by manufacturers requiring composite-video, S-video and component-video (YPbPr, YUV, RGB). To save space, each device integrates selectable filters, input clamps and fixed gain (6dB) output drivers into a single TSSOP package. They also reduce space by offering the choice of AC- or DC-coupled inputs and outputs, since DC-coupled outputs eliminate the need for large AC-coupling capacitors.

"Consumer video applications require space efficiency, high performance and design ease to speed time-to-market and assure system reliability," said Jeremy Tole, Fairchild's product marketing manager for Video Products. "Fairchild's new video filter family offers video designers the most design options available compared to discrete or similar solutions that require more space to achieve the same performance as one 20-pin TSSOP. For instance, all six channels on each device achieve reliable, consistent performance, as opposed to discrete filter channels that can vary with RLC tolerance. Additionally, by offering 12kV of ESD protection, the customer is able to remove twelve ESD diodes."

Each one of the video filter/drivers in the family offers a range of device options for designers to choose from:

--FMS6690 offers three channels with fixed 8MHz filters and three that are selectable between PS and HD (15MHz / 32MHz), ideal for high-definition television (HDTV) applications;

--FMS6246 offers three channels with fixed 8MHz filters and three that are selectable between SD and PS (8MHz / 15MHz), targeting DVD players; and

--FMS6346 offers three channels with fixed 8MHz filters and three that are selectable between SD and PS (8MHz / 32MHz), best suited to set-top box designs.

FMS6690 / FMS6246 / FMS6346 come in lead (Pb)-free 20-pin TSSOP packages. These products meet or exceed the requirements of the joint IPC/JEDEC standard J-STD-020B and are compliant with the European Union requirements now in effect.

Price (each, 1000 pcs):         US $0.83--FMS6690, FMS6246 and FMS6346
Availability:                   Samples available now
Delivery:                       8 weeks ARO

For more information about these products, please go to:
    --  http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pf/FM/FMS6690.html
    --  http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pf/FM/FMS6246.html
    --  http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pf/FM/FMS6346.html

For more information on other Fairchild products, design tools and
sales contacts, please visit www.fairchildsemi.com.

Editor's Note: For datasheets in PDF format, please go to:

    --  http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/FM/FMS6690.pdf
    --  http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/FM/FMS6246.pdf
    --  http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/FM/FMS6346.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.