Intersil Corporation - Intersil’s High Current MOSFET Gate Drivers Provide Industry’s Best Switching Efficiency

ISL6615, ISL6615A Reduce Gate Voltage Rise and Fall Times to Minimize Switching Loss, Increase Efficiency and Provide Advanced Fault Protection Without a Board Redesign

MILPITAS, CA, May 14, 2008 – Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: ISIL), a apple baton in the architecture and accomplish of high-performance analog semiconductors, today appear the absolution of the ISL6615 and ISL6615A. These high-frequency 6A bore ancillary MOSFET aboideau drivers accommodate greater efficiency, affecting adaptability and added aegis appearance for arrangement safety.

The new drivers accept added aboideau drive currents (4A antecedent and bore aboideau drive currents for UGATE and 4A antecedent with 6A bore on LGATE) to abate aboideau voltage acceleration and abatement times. This minimizes switching losses and improves efficiency, abnormally in top accepted applications in which ability MOSFETs are placed in alongside per phase.

The ISL6615 and ISL6615A aswell abutment both 9.6V and 12V ascribe rails. In addition, designers can accept versions of the accessory which abutment 3.3 PWM signals (ISL6615) or 5V PWM signals (ISL6615A). Each accessory has a advanced ascribe voltage operating ambit of 5V to 12V and anniversary is pin-for-pin accordant with Intersil’s antecedent bearing ISL6594D.

With assorted aegis appearance like bootstrap capacitor overcharging prevention, a tri-state PWM ascribe for safe achievement date shutdown, pre-POR overvoltage aegis and VCC undervoltage protection, the ISL6615 and ISL6615A advice assure the system.

This absorption to arrangement safety, accumulated with bigger adaptability and greater aboideau drive ability allows designers to abide connected in axle design, while creating improvements and alienated the use of expensive, low RDS(ON) MOSFETS.

Pricing and Availability
The ISL6615/15A are accessible now in 8-lead SOIC bales priced at $1.67 anniversary in 1,000 assemblage quantities and in 10-lead DFN bales priced at $1.69 in 1,000-unit quantities.

For added advice on the ISL6615 go to www.intersil.com/cda/deviceinfo/0,1477,ISL6615,0.html

For added advice on the ISL6615A go to www.intersil.com/cda/deviceinfo/0,1477,ISL6615A,0.html

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Intersil is the apple baton in ability administration solutions for computing. The company’s ample alternative of ability administration ICs cover high-integration, multi-output and multiphase PWMs and awful chip switching/linear controllers for borderline supplies. With a charge to allowance desktop and anthology PC and server designers accomplish college ability and lower amount designs, Intersil is a accurate ability for today’s PC and server manufacturers.

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Intersil Corporation is a baton in the architecture and accomplish of high-performance analog semiconductors. The Company's articles abode some of the industry's fastest growing markets, such as, collapsed console displays, corpuscle phones, added handheld systems, and notebooks. Intersil’s artefact families abode ability administration functions and analog arresting processing functions. Intersil articles cover ICs for array management, hot-swap and hot-plug controllers, beeline regulators, ability sequencers, authoritative ICs, arch drivers, PWM controllers, switching DC/DC regulators and ability MOSFET drivers; optical accumulator laser diode drivers; DSL band drivers; video and high-performance operational amplifiers; abstracts converters; interface ICs; analog switches and multiplexers; crosspoint switches; voice-over-IP devices; and ICs for military, amplitude and radiation-hardened applications. For added advice about Intersil or to acquisition out how to become a affiliate of our acceptable team, appointment the Company's web website and career page at www.intersil.com.