The DA6001 Northampton MA

Source: Business Wire
Publication date: April 30, 2009

Dialog Semiconductor plc (FWB: DLG), has launched the first in a new family of power management ICs (PMICs) designed to optimise the power efficiency of applications using the Intel® Atom processor Z5xx series which is being broadly adopted today. The DA6001 provides all power supplies, power management and clock supplies in a single chip.

The PMIC improves battery life, simplifies design, improves system reliability, requires less than half the board space and cuts the bill-of-materials compared with using discrete power management parts.

The DA6001 supports the Intel Atom processor for embedded computing applications, automotive applications like in-vehicle infotainment, netbooks and mobile Internet devices. The device family will expand to support future Intel Atom processors and platforms for the embedded and portable space.

"The Intel Atom processor is power-optimised, delivering robust performance-per-watt for cost-effective embedded applications. The DA6001 as a companion IC, adds the ability to minimise power consumption across the complete platform, not just the processor, without adding the cost and complexity of multiple power management and clocking devices to achieve this," said Juergen Friedel, vice president and general manager at Dialog.

" Embedded developers are designing products used in thermally constrained environments and require very low-power solutions。

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