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PWM Controller Uses BJTs to Reduce Costs

Dialog iW1679 Digital PWM Controller

Dialog iW1679 Digital PWM Controller

The iW1679 digital PWM controller drives 10-W power bipolar junction transistor (BJT) switches to reduce  costs in 5-V/2-A smartphone adapters and chargers. The controller enables designers to replace field-effect transistors (FETs) with lower-cost BJTs to provide lower standby power and higher light-load and active average efficiency in consumer electronic products.

The iW1679 uses Dialog’s adaptive multimode PWM/PFM control to dynamically change the BJT switching frequency. This helps the system improve light-load efficiency, power consumption, and electromagnetic interference (EMI). The iW1679 provides high, 83% active average efficiency; maintains high efficiency at loads as light as 10%. It achieves less than 30-mW no-load standby power with fast standby recovery time. The controller meets stringent global energy efficiency standards, including: US Department of Energy, European Certificate of Conformity (CoC) version 5, and Energy Star External Power Supplies (EPS) 2.0.

The iW1679 offers a user-configurable, four-level cable drop compensation option. It comes in a standard, low-cost, eight-lead SOIC package and provides protection from fault conditions including output short-circuit, output overvoltage, output overcurrent, and overtemperature.

The iW1679 costs $0.29 each in 1,000-unit quantities.

Dialog Semiconductor
www.iwatt.com

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PWM Controller Uses BJTs to Reduce Costs

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