Intersil Debuts New ISL6536 Endura Power IC

Intersil Corp. (Milpitas, CA) announced a new four-channel, Endura™ voltage supervisory power IC, the ISL6536, which fills a market gap left by legacy solutions for accurately monitoring and reporting on the status of multiple voltage rails. Four bus voltages can be accurately monitored with the IC and a handful of resistors used to program voltage thresholds.

The supervisory function is critical for reliable operation in many current applications such as computing, communications, graphics, industrial, medical and instrumentation systems. Using an internal 0.63V reference, the ISL6536 is able to provide accurate monitoring of four separate voltage buses at and above 0.7V. Thresholds for each monitored voltage bus are set independently using a simple resistor voltage divider. Virtually any voltage level can be monitored simply using a resistor divider, which drops the voltage to 0.63V for comparison.

The ISL6536IB in an SOIC package is available now. The suggested resale price is $0.75 for each IC in 4,999-unit to 9,999-unit quantities.