Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Catalyst Semiconductor | Subject: CAT3636
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 September 2006
Adaptive fractional charge pumps save
LED power
Charge pump architecture delivers high efficiency levels normally associated with inductor-based LED drivers, while eliminating the associated high-profile inductors and unwanted EMI.
Catalyst Semiconductor reckons it has taken LED driver performance to the next level with the announcement of its first chip in a new family of patent-pending Quad-Mode adaptive fractional charge pumps Capable of driving up to six white/colour LEDs, the CAT3636 is designed with Catalyst's innovative Quad-Mode switching architecture to give designers efficiency levels close to those of inductive boost convertors and the simplicity of charge pumps, without adding cost, components or board space
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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