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Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Advanced Analogic Technologies | Subject: AAT2860
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 June 2008

Handset power chip runs all lighting
tasks

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I2C-based lighting management unit integrates up to seven LED drivers and three low-dropout linear regulators in a single IC.

Most smart phones today require some combination of backlight LED drivers for a main display, sometimes additional LED drivers for a smaller subdisplay, one or more flash LED drivers, and LDOs to power the embedded camera By rolling all these functions in various configurations into a single IC, AnalogicTech's AAT2860 allows designers to minimise component count, board space and cost whether they are building a high end PDA-type phone with a single large display or a traditional clamshell design with two displays