Battery Switching Charger from Fairchild Semiconductor an EPC Top-10 DC-DC Power Products Award Winner
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Breakthrough Design Enables Efficient, USB-compliant Re-charging
Seventh EPC Top-10 DC-DC Power Products Award Win for Fairchild
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has been named a winner in the annual Top-10 DC-DC Power Product Awards, hosted by Electronic Products China (EPC). This is the seventh time Fairchild has received this prestigious award, after submitting its FAN5400 USB-Compliant Li-Ion Battery Switching Charger for consideration by the panel of judges.
The Top-10 DC-DC Power Product Awards are designed to highlight significant advances in a technology or its application. The awards emphasize innovation and excellent price/performance.
As consumers increasingly rely on portable handheld devices, including smartphones, tablets, and portable media/game players designers need a solution that provides faster charge times for the Li-Ion batteries that power them while at the same time overcoming the thermal issues associated with linear chargers.
The FAN5400 family of Li-Ion switching chargers, from Fairchild Semiconductor addresses these needs with more efficient re-charging, either through a USB port or by means of a 5V AC/DC adaptor. Thermal dissipation is no longer an issue, and the device remains relatively cool while re-charging. The FAN5400 switch-mode chargers are an ideal solution for recharging both single-cell and parallel-cell Li-Ion batteries, out-performing the traditional linear charger while providing a convenient USB On-The-Go (USB-OTG) capability.
Flexible in implementation, the device's charging parameters and operating modes are programmable through an I2C interface, which operates at up to 3.4Mbps.
A maximum charge current of 1.25A ensures fast charging times, and a high charge voltage accuracy (±0.5 percent @25°C) allows for more
