Product category:
Manufacturing IT hardware
News Release from: Lattice Semiconductor UK | Subject: IspPAC Power Manager
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 February 2005
New device monitors power supply
voltages of 0.7V
Lattice has announced the addition of precision power manager to programmable mixed-signal product portfolio - New device monitors power supply voltages down to 0.7V with 0.5% precision
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced the extension of its revolutionary ispPAC Power Manager programmable mixed-signal product family with the production release of the Precision Power Manager - Power1208P1 device The Power1208P1 device, like its predecessor the Power1208, provides a complete solution for printed circuit board (PCB) power sequencing and management through an optimised set of programmable digital and analog functions
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Lattice Semiconductor To To Support Fujitsu
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced an agreement to advance US$125 million in support of the new 300mm silicon wafer fab being constructed by Fujitsu Limited in Mie, Japan.
IP Cores Implement CAN Bus and IEEE 1394
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation and its IP partner, CAST Incorporated, have announced intellectual property (IP) support for the new LatticeECP-DSP and LatticeEC FPGA device families.
The Power1208P1 also extends the power and versatility of the Lattice Power Manager products: the analog inputs are capable of monitoring power supplies with voltages down to 0.67V, and are able to detect faults with greater than 0.5% precision.
In addition, the Precision Power Manager can detect a power-off condition (i.e, power supply voltage less than 80 mV).
The Power1208P1 is pin compatible with the existing Power1208, and is available in a compact 44-pin Thin Quad Flat Pack (TQFP) package.
The complexity of power supply management has increased dramatically in recent years as the number of voltages found on the typical PCB has risen sharply.
The use of core power supply voltages less than the standard 1.2V is becoming more common.
Further, advanced integrated circuit tolerance of power supply voltage variation is also tightening.
The ability of the Power1208P1 to simultaneously monitor all 12 power supply inputs provides rapid, accurate power supply fault detection, reducing fault propagation and consequently improving overall system reliability.
"Managing today's power supply voltages with greater precision can only be achieved by using mixed-signal devices with higher accuracy," said Stan Kopec, Lattice vice president of corporate marketing.
"With the addition of the Power1208P1 device, designers can now employ our standardized power management approach that includes PCBs that use power supplies of 1.2V or less.".
• Lattice Semiconductor UK: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Manufacturingtalk email newsletter
• Manufacturingtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
