Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Advanced Analogic Technologies | Subject: AAT1282
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 May 2008
Boost convertor powers up camera flashes
Device uses a supercapacitor to deliver the high peak current needed to support the high intensity flash required for mobile phones.
Several LED vendors have announced products that approach the light intensity of a conventional xenon flash, the de facto yet bulky standard in today's high-resolution digital still cameras or smartphones But the adoption of LED flash in portable applications has been limited due to the high levels of battery current, forward voltage and peak current required to produce this intensity
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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