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MOBILE HANDSET BACKLIGHTING/ FLASH: Overview
Lighting functions are growing increasingly complex in today's high performance handsets and other portable devices. Many now require WLEDs for backlight of large and sophisticated main displays, WLEDs for backlight of smaller sub displays, and flash LEDs for camera functions. Combining outputs for WLEDs on the same chip, and providing independent control for each functions display solution offer portable system designers the opportunity to build dramatically smaller and more economical portable systems

MOBILE HANDSET BACKLIGHTING/ FLASH: News

Highest Efficiency WLED Drivers Enable the Industry's Smallest Solution

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX8901A/MAX8901B: the industry's smallest, highest efficiency white-LED (WLED) drivers. These devices achieve up to 92% efficiency while driving a...  >>  

Highly Integrated, Flexible Light-Management IC Saves Space and Provides Over 90% Efficiency

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX8830 LED light-management IC in a tiny, 2.5mm x 2.5mm UCSP™. This device reduces total solution size by integrating a DC-DC step-up converter, four...  >>  

MagnaChip Launches LTPS LCD Driver Chip

MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., a leading global designer, developer and manufacturer of image sensor solutions, mixed-signal and digital multimedia semiconductors, today announced the launch of its...  >>  

MagnaChip Launches Mass Production of a Series of LCD Drivers for Mobile Phones

MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., announced the mass production of a series of its high resolution LCD driver chips for handset and mobile phone applications.  >>  

TOSHIBA ANNOUNCES NEW PHOTO-IC AMBIENT LIGHT SENSOR FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER DISPLAYS

Toshiba has introduced the TPS859, a new ultra-compact device, to its family of photo-IC ambient light sensors (ALS). The new photo-IC sensor incorporates a photo-diode, a current amplifier and a...  >>  

MOBILE HANDSET BACKLIGHTING/ FLASH: Blogs

Lighting Tradeoffs in Low-cost Handset Design

By Adolfo Garcia, Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. Despite the industry’s relentless focus on many exciting new features and capabilities available in today’s high performance...  >>  

MOBILE HANDSET BACKLIGHTING/ FLASH: Semiconductor Solutions

Freescale's Wireless and Mobile Portfolio [from Freescale]  >>  

Broadcom to Acquire Zyray Wireless Inc.

Acquisition Expands Broadcom's Growing Mobile Phone Portfolio to Include 3G WCDMA Products IRVINE, Calif. and SAN DIEGO, Jun 16, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Broadcom Corporation... [from Broadcom]  >>  

MOBILE HANDSET BACKLIGHTING/ FLASH: Application Resources

TD-SCDMA Radio Chipset Block Diagram for Handset Application

China option for 3G cellular phone is the TD-SCDMA system. A detailed handset transceiver diagram is presented showing MAX2361 as the transmit IC, the MAX2291 as the power amplifier (PA), and the...  >>  

Connecting LEDs: Serial vs. Parallel

When designing a handheld device with a color display using white LEDs for backlighting, is it better to use parallel or series connected LEDs? Both architectures have their own advantages when you...  >>  

The Evolution of Switched Capacitor Backlight Drivers in Mobile Phones

Today the majority of mobile phones use white LEDs to provide backlighting for the color display. Nearly every phone designer strives to drive the backlight with the most efficient, smallest size,...  >>  

MOBILE HANDSET BACKLIGHTING/ FLASH: Related Articles

ADI - Analog Dialogue - New Product Briefs - Communications

These innovative products are fully released. With production quantities normally available from stock, they are suitable for use in today's high-volume designs.  >>  

High-performance analog switches improve cell phone design

The demand for convergent functionality in GSM/GPRS and even third-generation (3G) multimode cell phones and other portables has seen the emergence of high-performance analog switches as one of the...  >>  

Overcoming the challenges in cellular handset development

The past year saw a resurgence in the growth rate of cellular phones, surprising many industry analysts, who were expecting another year of lackluster sales.  >>  

Optimizing RF power amp performance for 802.11b/g apps

Rapid growth in the 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) sector, commercially referred to as WiFi, is spreading across a broad range of applications in enterprise and home-related markets.  >>  

Radio design kits suit GSM/GPRS handsets

Accelerating the development of GSM/GPRS cellular handsets, the radio reference design kits are based on the company's BKW9000 family of single-chip quad-band GSM/GPRS CMOS transceivers.  >>  

Choosing an interface for wireless handsets

Many handset designers are tackling this challenge by building multiprocessor architectures. The use of two or more processors to support both baseband RF and compute-intensive applications--such...  >>  

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