MILPITAS, Calif., May 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Intersil
Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a leading provider of innovative power
management and precision analog solutions, today announced the
ISL78365 laser diode driver for automotive heads-up display (HUD)
systems. The highly integrated device pulses four high intensity
lasers up to 750mA for projecting full-HD color video onto the
windshield at nearly twice the current of competitive solutions.
The ISL78365's higher current and faster switching speed enables
HUDs with high resolution, high color-depth and high frame-rate
projections.
Laser HUDs are the latest innovation in advanced driver
assistance systems (ADAS). A vehicle's HUD keeps drivers focused on
the road, safely providing speed, warning signals and other vital
vehicle and navigation information on the windshield directly in
the driver's line of sight. The new generation of augmented reality
laser HUDs offer near-zero latency and a wide field of view. They
overlay additional real-time information such as traffic signs and
a planned turning lane, virtually painting arrows and lines on the
road ahead to make navigation directions obvious and easy to
follow.
The quad-channel ISL78365 is a complete solution for driving
lasers in the scanned-MEMS laser projection systems being deployed
in next generation autos. It is the industry's only laser driver
with a fourth channel for supporting a wide variety of laser diode
configurations, allowing system designers to achieve the desired
brightness and sharp, rich colors with high contrast. The ISL78365
provides sub-1.5ns rise and fall times for faster switching speed
than competitive devices, resulting in high frame rate, HD color
video. The device also offers 10-bit color and 10-bit scale
resolution to support a wide variety of contrast levels for each
driver channel. And its flexible synchronous parallel video
interface supports pixel rates up to 150MHz or 1900 pixels per
line.
The ISL78365's dynamic power management optimizes the
laser-diode power supply and offers three power saving modes for
improved efficiency and reduced power dissipation to meet system
thermal requirements. The programmable multi-pulse return to zero
(RTZ) feature reduces speckling, and the device's wettable flank
QFN package simplifies integration into compact laser projection
HUDs.
"The ISL78365 offers carmakers the high drive capability,
switching speed and color video accuracy that's enabling advanced
laser heads-up displays for today's luxury vehicles and tomorrow's
mid-range car models," said Philip
Chesley, senior vice president of Precision Products at
Intersil. "Our feature-rich laser diode driver minimizes system
size and complexity while delivering significantly higher
performance than the competition."
Key Features and Specifications
- Up to 750mA of peak current output per channel
- Fast output switching speeds with pulse rise/fall times of
1.5ns typical for crisp pixels
- Supports up to 150MHz maximum output pixel clock
- Laser voltage sampler with integrated dynamic power
optimization controller to conserve system power
- Flexible data order supports multiple RGB laser diode
opto-mechanical placement
- Blanking time power reduction reduces laser diode driver
current consumption
- Programmable multi-pulse RTZ for maximum flexibility and
speckle reduction
- Single 3.3V supply and 1.8V video interface for low power
operation
- 3-wire serial peripheral interface
- AEC-Q100 Grade-1 qualified for operation from -40°C to
+125°C
- Wettable flank QFN package allows optical inspection of solder
joints for lower manufacturing cost
The ISL78365 can be combined with the ISL78206 2.5A synchronous
buck regulator, ISL78201 2.5A synchronous buck/boost regulator,
ISL78233 3A synchronous buck regulator, ISL78302 dual 302mA LDO and
ISL29125 digital RGB color light sensor to provide a complete power
supply system for automotive laser projection HUDs.
Pricing and Availability
The quad-channel ISL78365
laser diode driver is available now in a 6mm x 6mm 40-lead WFQFN
package and is priced at $9.82 USD in
1k quantities. For more information, please visit:
www.intersil.com/products/isl78365.
About Intersil
Intersil Corporation is a leading
provider of innovative power management and precision analog
solutions. The company's products form the building blocks of
increasingly intelligent, mobile and power hungry electronics,
enabling advances in power management to improve efficiency and
extend battery life. With a deep portfolio of intellectual property
and a rich history of design and process innovation, Intersil is
the trusted partner to leading companies in some of the world's
largest markets, including industrial and infrastructure, mobile
computing, automotive and aerospace. For more information about
Intersil, visit our website at www.intersil.com.
Intersil and the Intersil logo are trademarks or registered
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