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Sipex Debuts SP8052 Photo Detector IC

December 16, 2003 by Jeff Shepard

Sipex Corp. (Milpitas, CA), a provider of high-performance, analog integrated circuits, announced its latest photo detector integrated circuit (PDIC), the SP8052. Optimized for 8x and 12x writeable DVD drives, the SP8052 features slew rates of 500V/µsec, fast 12ns saturation recovery times, and 150MHz bandwidth.

Along with the four high-speed data detection channels, four tracking channels, and two summing channels traditionally utilized for CD and DVD-write modes, two additional write channels have been specially implemented for enhanced high-speed DVD write functionality.

The SP8052 is available now and is priced at $1.65 in 100,000-piece quantities. An evaluation board is also available to assist in the evaluation of the SP8052.