Dialog Semiconductor’s PMIC is compact for DSLR camera efficiency
Dialog Semiconductor’s PMIC is compact for DSLR camera efficiency: Dialog Semiconductor has used its power management technology, used in smartphones, in the DA6102 power management integrated circuit (PMIC). Targeting the DSLR market, the DA6102 enables greater space savings and increased efficiency, promises the company.
The DA6102, integrated PMIC is a complete power supply for DSLR, mirrorless cameras, and multi-cell Li-ion battery applications. High efficiency levels surpass those of competing solutions, claims Dialog Semiconductor, enabling greater battery savings to allow longer operational run times for 2S Li-ion applications and less heat dissipation for space-constrained and tightly-enclosed consumer devices.
The DA6102 features two buck regulators, one buck-boost regulator, one high-current buck controller, and two always-on LDOs (low drop out regulators). Low RDSon FETs enable industry-leading efficiency as high as 94 per cent for buck and buck-boost regulation, says Dialog. The high level of integration and efficiency, combined with a high switching frequency operation of up to 3.0MHz, minimises PCB size and external component count and height, delivering an impressive 50 per cent space saving over competing solutions. An I2C interface enables flexibility and easy configuration of the output voltage, switching frequency, power sequencing, and fault protection. Most features are also configurable by OTP for simple output voltage and start-up sequence set-up.
The DA6102 will start volume production later in 2017.
Dialog’s PMIC technology is used in over 20 per cent of smartphones, and it is expecting to exploit new markets with an increasing range of power standard products.
Dialog SmartCanvas GUI (graphical user interface) allows engineers to simply evaluate the DA6102, accelerating product development time. The DA6102 is available in a WLCSP package measuring just 2.97 x 3.375mm and available now through Avnet.
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