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Semtech - World's smallest 300mA buck-boost regulator targets tiny applications

The new 3.3V, SC630A and 5V, SC632A, from Semtech, are the world’s smallest 300mA and 275mA (respectively) buck-boost regulators, says the company. They come in a tiny, 2mm x 2mm x 0.6mm package and are designed to be used with ultra-small, 2.2µF capacitors, making them far smaller and easier to use than conventional, inductor-based buck-boost regulators. This combination of tiny package and capacitor sizes results in an overall design footprint as small as 10mm2.

The SC630A and SC632A are three-mode charge pumps (1x, 1.5x, 2x) with continuous output currents of 300mA (SC630A) and 275mA (SC632A). They are designed using Semtech’s patented, low-noise charge pump technology to provide low EMI solutions compared to inductive boost regulators and are optimized for use in a wide range of applications, including tablets, modems, set top boxes, smart phones, digital cameras, portable media players, multi-LED backlit LCDs, USB On-the-Go, and compact flash/CF+ products.

Buck-boost charge pump regulators increase or decrease voltages incoming from the main power source (input voltage) to meet the output voltage needed by the system components. The SC630A and SC632A are 3.3V and 5V buck-boost charge pump regulators that operate as LDO linear regulators when the input is greater than the 3.3V or 5V respective output voltages. When the input is less than the required output voltages, the devices automatically activate the charge pump to provide voltage boost and the headroom needed for voltage regulation.

Both new charge pumps offer a shutdown current of 0.1µA (typical) and full protection features, including internal soft-start to minimize inrush current, as well as over-current, short-circuit, and over-temperature protection.

The SC630A and SC632A are enhancements to Semtech’s already popular SC630 and SC632 buck-boost charge pump regulators. These ‘A’ version parts offer the same great performance as the ‘non-A’ versions, but in a much smaller footprint and with a lower BOM cost. These benefits are achieved via a significant reduction in input and output capacitor size from 22µF down to just 2.2µF, by increasing the charge pump frequency to 1MHz and enhancing the dynamic performance of the regulation loop. This reduces the overall design footprint to as small as 10mm2. Both devices come in a low-profile, thermally enhanced 2mm x 2mm x 0.6mm MLPQ 8-pin package.

Typical applications - Cable Modem: Companion function chip. Cell phone / smart phone: audio, Bluetooth, digital control, external memory, keyboard / keypad backlight, LCD bias, memory, mic amplifier, microphone controller, mixed signal, pointing device, speaker driver, USB (OTG), WiFi 802.11x. Digital Camera: External memory, image DSP, image sensor CCD/CMOS, Keyboard / keypad backlight, memory, motor control, system controller and MCE, support function IC, USB, video interface. DSL Modem: USB, WI-FI 802.11X. MP3 Player: External memory interface, jack (SPKR), memory, support function IC, touchpad / user input device, USB. Set Top Box: HDMI/DVI, tuner.

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Contemporary security camera systems now use digital technologies and what makes these devices digital are the image sensors behind the camera lenses the element in your mini camera that radically change the light and image captured by your camera's lens and converts them into digital signals. These signals are either stored in your camera's internal memory or sent without delay as a digitized video file to a P. C. Or digital recorder.

The costs of digital mini cameras have gone down mainly due to the means these image sensors are far easier to produce now than they did a few years back. These sensors convert light into electrons and there are 2 major chip technologies used to turn out these sensors : CCD or Charge-Coupled Device and CMOS or Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor image sensors. CMOS chips are easier to produce and are thus cheaper than their CCD counterparts.

These technologies have developed quite significantly at present times that electronic cameras can now capture and produce high definition video images of the highest qualities and image resolutions. As a reseller or online retailer of mini camera devices, you could have a demonstrable appreciation of these technologies to maintain a balance between getting hi-def products and supplying what your customers actually desire. Hi-def cameras which sell at higher prices may not necessarily mean higher returns for your investments as many stores would ultimately find out .

Understanding Digital Mini Camera Technologies

The following described in a nutshell the most common and most well-liked digital camera technologies in existence at the moment that all online security system outlets should know.

* CCD Sensor Chips

Most electronic cameras today use CCD sensor technologies. CCDs were a consequence of the search for low-cost and easier-to-produce camera solutions that would eventually replace both the need for mechanized screens and the utilization of film for cameras. In layman's terms CCDs are the electronic versions of the eye.

There are 4 kinds of CCD sensors : Linear, Interline, Full-Frame and Frame-Transfer CCD cameras. Linear CCDs use only a single row of pixels and employs motors to physically move the pixel sensors. They are now not commonplace except in flatbed scanners. Interline CCDs are far more commonly utilised thanks to the higher cost and shutter restrictions of full frame transfer CCDs.

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