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Semtech Announces SC486 Integrated Power Supply

November 16, 2004 by Jeff Shepard

Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, CA), a producer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced the SC486, the company’s first switcher/linear combination regulator designed specifically for DDR and DDR2 memory applications. The SC486 is targeted at next-generation notebook computers, PDAs, power supplies and other portable systems.

The SC486 integrates a switching regulator for the supply voltage, a linear regulator for the memory termination voltage, and an internal buffered voltage reference into a single device. The SC486 comes in a small form-factor, a 4 mm x 4 mm MLPQ package, and reduces board space requirements through the integration of otherwise external circuitry for DDR memories, such as resistor dividers and sense resistors.

The SC486 is available immediately in production quantities and is priced at $1.32 each in 1,000-piece lots. The device comes in a 24-pin, lead-free, MLPQ package and is orderable by the part number SC486IMLTRT.