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Energy-Efficient <strong>Analog</strong> Makes the Difference<br />
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With 50 years of analog innovation, National Semiconductor<br />
continues to create analog-intensive solutions that<br />
differentiate customers’ products by providing greater energy<br />
efficiency, precision, portability, better audio, and sharper<br />
images in electronic systems. National’s technologies address<br />
issues facing system designers in markets such as mobile<br />
handsets, communications, and industrial applications.<br />
Proven <strong>Analog</strong> Technology Leadership<br />
National’s analog portfolio features leading-edge operational<br />
amplifiers, interface technologies, data converters, and power<br />
management solutions. These devices provide solutions for<br />
high-efficiency lighting, precision data acquisition, high-speed<br />
serial communication and highly efficient power conversion.<br />
As a recognized world leader in power management, National<br />
continues to pioneer new energy-efficient devices, subsystems,<br />
and architectures for next-generation system designs.<br />
PowerWise ® <strong>Product</strong>s for Energy-Efficient Designs<br />
For the growing number of designs where energy efficiency is<br />
a primary consideration, National has developed PowerWise ®<br />
solutions. With National’s PowerWise ICs, design engineers<br />
can create products and systems that consume less power,<br />
extend battery life, and generate less heat. PowerWise devices<br />
and subsystems, found in every National product family from<br />
interface products to high-speed data<br />
converters, from thermal management<br />
to power regulators, can help solve<br />
customers’ design challenges.<br />
The PowerWise portfolio includes more than 300 of National’s<br />
top energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal semiconductor<br />
devices that meet or exceed a set of stringent performance-topower<br />
metrics, making it easy for system designers to identify<br />
the most energy-efficient devices for their end products.<br />
Personal Mobile Devices<br />
National is focused on fully featured wireless<br />
handsets and personal mobile devices,<br />
products that enable people to search<br />
the Internet, send email, stream video,<br />
download music, and take photos. National’s<br />
rich portfolio enables vibrant displays, clearer audio, better<br />
portability, and longer battery life.<br />
LED Lighting<br />
National’s constant-current light-emitting diode (LED) drivers<br />
enable greater energy efficiency and flexibility in lighting<br />
designs. Driving numerous LEDs in one string, they provide<br />
greater than 90 percent efficiency and accurate<br />
current regulation with less power and heat<br />
dissipation. Demand is soaring as LEDs replace<br />
incandescent light bulbs in the home and HID<br />
lamps in street lights and projectors. With their<br />
energy-efficient nature, LEDs are also finding<br />
increased adoption in automotive, exterior lighting,<br />
and infotainment applications.<br />
Communications Infrast<strong>ru</strong>cture<br />
As more of the world’s population shares files, photos, and<br />
video, networking and data centers are growing exponentially.<br />
Increasingly, new wireless technologies are driving higher data<br />
rates and requiring unprecedented<br />
power consumption. National’s energyefficient<br />
solutions enable routers,<br />
switches, wireless base stations,<br />
modems, and DSL equipment to<br />
consume less power and generate less<br />
heat. PowerWise solutions address<br />
rising energy costs and customer<br />
demand for “greener” operations.<br />
Award-Winning Design Tools<br />
National’s unique WEBENCH ® online design environment<br />
provides system engineers a competitive advantage and faster<br />
time to market. National’s on-demand tools make it easy for<br />
system engineers to explore and learn, compare and select<br />
products, and then design and build their system online.<br />
National’s WEBENCH tools enable novice and experienced<br />
WEBENCH dial designers alike to easily “dial in” their size and<br />
efficiency requirements using online controls.<br />
Industrial Automation<br />
Increased efficiency and lower operating costs are the<br />
driving trends in industrial automation, leading to increased<br />
modernization, as well as intelligent sensing and control.<br />
National continues to provide improved precision measurement<br />
and control, continuous-calibration capabilities, and diagnostic<br />
capabilities with reduced downtime and power usage.
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