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Power Supplies With the development of mobile electronic devices and development

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

In the past two decades, the rapid portable electronic equipment supply chips to promote universal incredible growth, and the power semiconductor market has become an important market for the first. Twenty years ago, almost all the power management chip (IC) are all kinds of management laptop battery, monitoring power lines and conversion (from the AC power grid power semiconductor devices or meet the requirements of the DC battery device) device.

As including mobile phones, portable media players, digital cameras, personal digital assistants, portable medical equipment, video games and mobile platforms, and many other similar equipment, portable battery-powered consumer electronics applications explosive growth, this situation has Earthshaking changes have taken place. Now, there are at least half of the power management semiconductor devices were integrated into portable devices, the other aspect of this change is also reflected in the lithium-ion (Li-Ion) inspiron battery on the number of rapid growth. Since 2001, global production of lithium-ion battery with growth of more than four times [1].

In fact, the demand for mobile electronic systems and the attendant for more portable power solution needs, is the prosperity of power management integrated circuits driving force behind the market. In recent years the semiconductor industry’s overall annual growth rate of about 7 per cent, and since 2002 has the power chip with 15 percent of the overall annual growth rate of sustained growth [2]. In addition, the power semiconductors is expected to continue this rate of growth to 2011 [3]. Overall, because of power
The equipment will be shipped over the general semiconductor devices, therefore, the electronic power system chip (or rather that is 1691P -powered mobile applications) will be significant growth that is not in doubt.

As the chip manufacturing process geometry in the past few years become more and more small, voltage levels have dropped dramatically, in order to support the new technology. That the majority of semiconductor devices are 5 volts of days gone forever. For example, a single chip in the phone with a few as low as 0.9 V (for digital baseband device) and up to 30 V (for a series of regional and keyboard for the display backlight to provide the light emitting diode) of the voltage level .

Portable system in the low-voltage chip-level power 75UYF  supply system is also on the complexity and precision to the challenge. A few years ago, most of the chip rated at Level 5 volts, power is often adjust to 5 V or 5 percent less than +250 mV. In many of today’s portable system, a 1.5 V chip voltage regulator requirements in its 1.5 V level of 1.5 percent, or +22 mV within. This shows that the voltage regulator accuracy increased by 10 times.

Segmentation power subsystem

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Many portable systems are generally based on several different parts of the structure or composition of district. In addition, each district may have its own set of power requirements laptop battery. These portable systems to meet the different needs of the individual often require specialized portable power chips.

Because of its electrical power output and low noise, linear regulators chips are usually installed in a portable system radio frequency (RF) in the district. Many linear regulators are open to provide rapid, and RF-conditioning needs of low-noise operation. There’s no need to ICP, they are very small in size, occupying only a small amount of board space.

In order to implement different lighting functions inspiron battery, such as: the camera flash digital cameras, portable cameras to provide continuous lighting or liquid crystal display and keypad of the backlight, may also be required number of DC / DC boost converter. An organic liquid crystal displays (organic light-emitting diode) of the bright colors may also require a certain level of voltage conversion.

Processor chip (including the general-purpose processors and digital signal processor (DSP)) have their own set of norms of power. Most processors are high-current, low-voltage devices, requirements to undergo a rigorous conditioning power. In order to be portable system down to 3.3 V power processor 1.2 V level, voltage converter is the most commonly used method. Usually, it 1691P  requires a large current can provide a highly efficient DC / DC converters.

Of course, some highly complex system requirements for portable power equipment for all or part of the power sub-system for monitoring and management. For example, the voltage monitoring device can monitor the power system, in response to some of the time of the incident to open or close the subsystem. A Power Management Unit (PMU) will be many possible by a number of discrete implementation of the power supply device functions into a single chip 75UYF . This integration cost savings, board space and design time.

Microchip introduced the integration of field-programmable power

Friday, August 29th, 2008

A few days ago, microcontroller and analog semiconductor supplier Microchip Technology (micro-core technology companies in the United States) to further expand its lineup of battery management products, today announced the launch of the integration of field-programmable power, applicable to 2-4 lithium-ion and Lithium polymer laptop battery, or 6-12 nickel-hydrogen batteries and nickel-cadmium battery applications. New devices with smart battery system (Smart Battery System, called SBS), can accurately judge the battery power and provide battery monitoring function, improve the application of security, with the end-of-discharge (End of Discharge, called EOD) control, then extended Battery life and working hours.

PS501 battery management IC products used Microchip high-performance, low-power PIC18 microcontroller core, its 16 kilobytes of memory-chip memory in the Accuron ® patented algorithm.

The hp battery management devices of current low, only 150 microamps. When the suspension of work related applications, the device will automatically enter the low-power sleep mode, power consumption less than 1 microamp, both energy conservation and reduce excessive battery discharge.

The new device also integrates a 16 programmable Sigma-Delta ADC, as well as to optimize the professional application of mixed-signal circuits. As a result, the device can not only accurate measurement of Pavilion DV1000 battery  current, temperature and voltage, but also directly connected to as many as four series lithium-ion or lithium-polymer battery pack. EEPROM device can be stored on the user and set up the system by “learning”, was the battery parameters. The device also has a precise silicon oscillator, no longer need an external crystal. The new device hardware and advanced algorithms will be combined balance of the battery, the device could well be applied to lithium-polymer battery applications.

The new device has 12-pin universal, support charge and safety control or user programmable digital I / O. The eight-pin can only be used for light-emitting diode driver, while another two to make a direct FET (FET) drive the open-drain. The device can be industry-standard Pavilion ZV5000 battery  SMbus protocol with the host, and to support all Sbdata parameters.

Microchip for the PS501 battery management products provide a wide range of system development. One for lithium-ion or lithium-polymer battery, Microchip launched a series for four batteries of the PS5164EV, three batteries of the series and two series PS5163EV battery PS5162EV; for nickel-hydrogen batteries and nickel-cadmium batteries, used to launch 6-12 series battery PS5100EV. These systems include the development of an application board, PowerInfoTM 2 interface board (PS051) and fringe of the cable, and documentation. In addition, the support of Microsoft Windows ® PowerToolTM 2 (PS050) software built-in wizard procedures to facilitate the assessment of engineers in the development of systems and application-specific parameters and Pavilion DV4000 battery  optimization, and provide PS501 applications such as custom programming and board and other adjustments Production support.