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News Release from: Fairchild Semiconductor | Subject: FMS6151
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 January 2006
Filters drive video from handset to big
screen
Fairchild Semiconductor has released the smallest video filter driver on the market for driving video images from cellphones to televisions, computer monitors or other larger display products.
Responding to a cutting-edge trend in ultraportable applications, Fairchild Semiconductor has released the smallest video filter driver on the market for driving video images from cellphones 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
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Packaged in a 6-terminal MicroPak package measuring only 1.45 x 1.0 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 cellphone 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 artefacts 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 lowpass filter that provides better stop band attenuation compared with 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 US cellphone users will be able to watch as many as 20 TV channels on their cellphones.
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 ultraportable arena, Fairchild specifically tailored the FMS6151 to help designers save space and cost, while providing performance benefits for cellphones, portable media players, digital still cameras, PDAs and other handheld display products.
The FMS6151 comes in a lead (Pb)-free 6-terminal MicroPak 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.
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