Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), an innovator of high
performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end
markets, today announced that it is capturing additional content in
smartphone platforms with its industry-leading light emitting diode
(LED) camera flash driver solutions. The adoption of cameras in
smartphones, along with consumers’ expectations for high-quality
photographs, is driving accelerated implementation of camera flash
drivers in mobile devices. Skyworks’ products enable longer battery
life for consumers, while simplifying design, reducing component
count and decreasing overall solution size for OEMs.
“Skyworks is excited to be supporting our customers as they
capitalize on consumer demand for high quality images in the
exploding smartphone market,” said Liam K. Griffin, executive vice
president and general manager of high performance analog at
Skyworks. “Our advanced suite of camera flash drivers demonstrates
Skyworks’ ability to expand content in the fastest growing market
segments, while also diversifying our broad analog product
portfolio.”
According to Gartner, Inc., a leading information technology
research and advisory firm, mobile phone cameras will grow from
approximately 1.6 billion units in calendar year 2011 to over 2.2
billion units in calendar year 2015, representing 92 percent of
mobile phones worldwide. An additional 15 percent of them will have
two cameras to take portrait photos or to enable video chat. In
their Market Trends: Digital Camera Functions
in Mobile and Consumer Electronics report, Gartner states,
“At present, a digital camera is found in almost all types of
mobile electronic equipment devices ranging from mobile phones to
notebook PCs, tablet computers and handheld video game consoles.
Gartner believes that mobile electronics equipment will have
digital camera functions as well as wireless communication function
as a standard feature.”
About Skyworks’ LED Camera Flash Drivers
The AAT1274 is a high efficiency, 1.5A high-current boost
converter for LED photo flash applications. It maintains output
current regulation by switching the internal high-side and low-side
switch transistors, pulse-width modulated at a fixed frequency of 2
megahertz. The high switching frequency allows the use of a small
external inductor and output capacitor, making it ideally suited in
all single cell, Li-ion-powered applications.
Skyworks’ patented AS2Cwire™ (Advanced Simple Serial Control™)
digital interface is used to enable, disable, configure and program
the operation of the device. Using the AS2Cwire interface, the
movie-mode current level for the LED, and the flash-to-movie-mode
current ratio can be programmed to one of 16 levels. The AAT1274
includes a separate flash enable input to initiate the flash
operation and a flash-inhibit pin which reduces the flash current
to movie-mode levels during high-battery demand.
The maximum flash and movie-mode current is set by one external
resistor where the ratio of flash to movie-mode current is set at
approximately 7:3:1. The AAT1274 can drive one high current LED. In
addition, the device contains a thermal management system to
protect it from an output short-circuit condition. Built-in
circuitry prevents excessive in-rush current during start-up, and
the part is available in a Pb-free, thermally-enhanced TDFN33-14
package.
About Skyworks
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high performance
analog semiconductors. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks
supports automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy
management, GPS, industrial, medical, military, wireless
networking, smartphone and tablet applications. The Company’s
portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, circulators, detectors,
diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids,
infrastructure RF subsystems, isolators, lighting and display
solutions, mixers/demodulators, optocouplers, optoisolators, phase
shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, power
management devices, receivers, switches and technical ceramics.
Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., Skyworks is worldwide with
engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout
Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please visit
Skyworks’ Web site at: www.skyworksinc.com
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that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely
from those projected, and may affect our future operating results,
financial position and cash flows.
These risks, uncertainties and other important factors include,
but are not limited to: uncertainty regarding global economic and
financial market conditions; the susceptibility of the wireless
semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by our, and our
customers', products to economic downturns; the timing,
rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our
ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage
inventory; losses or curtailments of purchases or payments from key
customers, or the timing of customer inventory adjustments; the
availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry,
assembly and test capacity, raw materials and supplier components;
changes in laws, regulations and/or policies in the United States
that could adversely affect financial markets and our ability to
raise capital; our ability to develop, manufacture and market
innovative products in a highly price competitive and rapidly
changing technological environment; whether we are able to
successfully integrate Advanced Analogic Technologies’ operations;
economic, social and political conditions in the countries in which
we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including security and
health risks, possible disruptions in transportation networks and
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; fluctuations in
our manufacturing yields due to our complex and specialized
manufacturing processes; delays or disruptions in production due to
equipment maintenance, repairs and/or upgrades; our reliance on
several key customers for a large percentage of our sales;
fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third party
semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the
fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; our
ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and
evolving industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new
markets; uncertainties of litigation, including potential disputes
over intellectual property infringement and rights, as well as
payments related to the licensing and/or sale of such rights; our
ability to rapidly develop new products and avoid product
obsolescence; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key
executives, technical personnel and other employees in the
positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at
the compensation levels needed to implement our business and
product plans; lengthy product development cycles that impact the
timing of new product introductions; unfavorable changes in product
mix; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; shorter
than expected product life cycles; problems or delays that we may
face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process
technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration;
and our ability to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual
property portfolio and obtain needed licenses from third parties,
as well as other risks and uncertainties, including, but not
limited to, those detailed from time to time in our filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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