Philips Semiconductors (Sunnyvale, CA) announced its new low-voltage logic family for portable consumer electronics, computing, networking and telecom applications. The advanced ultra-low voltage CMOS (AUC) is a new family of logic products optimized for 1.8V operations, with an operating voltage range of 0.8V to 3.6V. It is claimed to be the only logic family that can be operated by a single-cell battery at 1.5V, making AUC suitable for mobile phones, pagers, digital cameras, personal digital assistants and other portable devices.
The AUC logic family is designed to offer a faster, ultra-low-noise logic solution for applications with low-voltage requirements. Developed with the smaller geometry technology used for ASICs, high-speed DSPs and microprocessors, AUC is capable of interfacing directly with the low-voltage versions of these processors. With a voltage tolerance of 3.6V, AUC can support the use of higher-voltage devices in system designs. All AUC products include a power-off feature, Ioff, which disables output from the device to support live or hot insertion of boards into system backplanes, a critical feature for telecom, networking and computing applications that must remain running while boards are inserted or removed.
