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Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Maxim Integrated Products | Subject: MAX17005, MAX17006 and MAX17015
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 19 May 2008
Battery chargers cut size and costs
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High switching frequency allows the use of smaller passive components, and the option to use N-channel switches reduces costs.
Available now from Maxim Integrated Products, the MAX17005, MAX17006 and MAX17015 high-frequency, multichemistry battery-charger ICs use a proprietary high-frequency current-mode architecture that significantly reduces the cost and size of external components Designed to operate at a 1.2MHz switching frequency, these ICs enable the use of a smaller output filter than required by many other battery-charger ICs, thus reducing the size of the design and the BOM cost associated with the output filter