Company Profile:
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor, the industry's premier analog company, creates high-value analog devices and subsystems. National's leading-edge products include power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, interface products and data conversion solutions. National's key analog markets include wireless handsets, displays, communications infrastructure, medical, automotive, industrial, and test and measurement applications. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., National reported sales of $1.93 billion for fiscal 2007, which ended May 27, 2007. Additional company and product information is available at www.national.com.
Latest National Semiconductor Products
National IF receiver ref design for EDGE and LTE basestations
October 19 2009 - National Semiconductor has announced the availability of an intermediate frequency (IF) sampling receiver reference design for multi-carrier, multi-standard wireless basestations addressing GSM/EDGE, WCDMA, LTE and WiMAX standards... more
National serdes drives 24-bit colour displays
September 28 2009 - National Semiconductor has introduced a serialiser and deserialiser (serdes) chipset capable of driving high-resolution, 24-bit colour flat-panel displays with a 65MHz clock... more
National LED driver cuts backlight power
August 24 2009 - National Semiconductor has introduced its smallest white LED driver IC which incorporates dynamic display backlight control... more
National cuts power of 160MSPS 16-bit ADC
August 19 2009 - Targeted at multi-carrier, multi-standard GSM/EDGE, WCDMA, LTE and WiMAX wireless basestations, the ADC16DV160 consumes 650mW per ADC channel and has an input-bandwidth of 1.4GHz... more
National Semi LMH0384 PowerWise Cable Equalizer
April 27 2009 - National Semiconductor low Jitter 3-Gbps SDI Equalizer.... more
National Semi LM48824 PowerWise stereo headphone amplifier
April 17 2009 - The LM48824 Class G stereo headphone amplifier from National Semiconductor draws only 0.9 mA (typical) of quiescent current to double the audio playback time of smart phones, full-featured mobile phones and portable music players. ... more
National Semiconductor LM49352 and LM49151 audio subsystems
April 03 2009 - The LM49352 mixed-signal audio subsystem and LM49151 analog subsystem are targeted at smart phones, full-featured phones, portable gaming devices and portable GPS devices. ... more
National Semiconductor LM3445 TRIAC dimmable LED driver
February 23 2009 - National Semiconductor TRIAC dimmable LED driver with full-range and flicker-free dimming.... more
National Semiconductor LMH6553 amplifier
November 12 2008 - National Semiconductor claims to have introduced the first wideband 900MHz fully differential amplifier to include a programmable output limiting clamp for protecting analogue-to-digital converters (ADC) from over-voltage events. ... more
National Semiconductor ADC10D1000 ultra-high-speed ADC
November 10 2008 - Powerwise ADC and differential amplifier deliver best ENOB, SFDR and gain flatness for communications infrastructure and military systems.... more
National Semiconductor PowerWise Simple Switcher controllers
October 27 2008 - PowerWise synchronous switching buck controllers provide output current up to 12A, require minimal external components.... more
National Semiconductor Simple Switcher regulators
October 27 2008 - National Semiconductor 11 new step-down switching regulators feature voltage range from 4.5V to 42V.... more
National Semiconductor Webench design tool
October 24 2008 - Webench power designer graphical tool accelerates designs.... more
National Semiconductor energy-efficient analogue products
October 23 2008 - Energy-efficient analogue products from National Semiconductor provide high reliability, robust operation for automotive applications... more
National Semiconductor PowerWise LMK04000 clock jitter cleaner
October 17 2008 - National Semiconductor’s clock jitter cleaners eliminate need for VCXO modules.... more
National Instruments NI LabVIEW Multisim Connectivity Toolkit
October 10 2008 - National Instruments toolkit integrates NI Multisim and LabVIEW .... more
National Instruments DIAdem 11.0 expands test data management and visualisation
July 16 2008 - National Instruments DIAdem 11.0 is the latest version of the interactive software for managing, analysing and reporting test data. The software adds features to simplify high-channel-count system visualisation and improve productivity.... more
National Semiconductor 4MHz synchronous step-down DC-DC converter
June 24 2008 - National Semiconductor introduces its smallest 4MHz synchronous step-down DC-DC converter that provides up to a 1A output current over an input voltage range of 2.3V to 5.5V. ... more
NatSemi 1A, 4 MHz synchronous step-down DC-DC converter
June 11 2008 - National Semiconductor smallest 1A, 4 MHz synchronous step-down DC-DC converter for portable applications. It features ±1 percent output voltage precision, 95 percent peak efficiency and excellent transient performance.... more
National Semi presents buck-boost DC-DC regulator
June 04 2008 - National Semiconductor is offering its first emulated current-mode-controlled buck-boost DC-DC regulator controller which has an operating voltage range of 3V to 75V.... more
National Semi presents M-LVDS transceiver
May 19 2008 - National Semiconductor is offering a quad multipoint-low-voltage differential signalling (M-LVDS) transceiver designed for backplane clock distribution in Advanced TCA and MicroTCA line cards.... more
National Semiconductor claims industry's lowest jitter serdes chipset
May 16 2008 - A new serializer and deserializer (SerDes) chipset from National Semiconductor delivers output jitter performance of 35 ps peak-to-peak and the input jitter tolerance of 0.9 units interval (UI) with a bit error rate (BER) of 10^(-15). ... more
National Semi has new multi-rate video clock generator
April 17 2008 - A new multi-rate video clock generator with genlock from National Semiconductor Corp delivers high-definition (HD) clock output jitter as low as 40 ps peak-to-peak. ... more
National Semi expands amplifier range
March 18 2008 - National Semiconductor has a range of micropower precision amplifiers that it said provides guaranteed maximum offset voltage drift over temperature (TCVOS) as low as +/- 0.4[micro]V per deg C.... more
National Semiconductor DS50EV401 quad equaliser for PCIe
March 12 2008 - National Semiconductor has introduced a quad equaliser specifically designed for PCI Express (PCIe) applications up to 8 Gbps data transmission rates. The device supports PCIe Gen1 (2.5 Gbps), PCIe Gen2 (5 Gbps) and PCIe Gen3 (8 Gbps) data rates, with typical power consumption of 100 mW per channel. ... more
National Semiconductor LME49600 audio buffer
January 23 2008 - The National Semiconductor LME49600 reproduces high-dynamic input signals without adding distortion... more
National Semiconductor low-offset, precision amplifier family
October 17 2007 - National Semiconductor introduces low-offset, precision amplifier family with high bandwidth-to-power ratios for portable applications... more
National Semi expands LED display power management range
October 09 2007 - National Semiconductor today added three new power management products for driving light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and powering organic LED (OLED) displays to its PowerWise energy-efficient product family.... more
National Semi energy-efficient amplifiers join analogue IC family
October 08 2007 - National Semiconductor has introduced three energy-efficient differential amplifiers which have become part of the supplier’s PowerWise line of energy-efficient analogue ICs.... more
National Semi announces industry's first ethernet transceiver with IEEE 1588 hardware support
October 03 2007 - National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced the industry’s first Ethernet transceiver with integrated hardware support for the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP).... more
National Semiconductor PowerWise high-speed amplifiers
September 25 2007 - National Semiconductor Corporation has introduced three new energy-efficient, high-speed differential amplifiers that are well-suited for a wide variety of communications, test, instrumentation, defence and space applications.... more
National Semiconductor LVDS 4x4 crosspoint switch, DS25CP104
September 07 2007 - National Semiconductor's power-efficient crosspoint delivers 10 ps jitter performance for telecom, video routing, and ATE applications at data rates up to 3.125 Gbps... more
National Semiconductor programmable gain amplifier
August 28 2007 - National Semiconductor is claiming at top-rated precision amplifier design with its LMP8100A programmable gain amplifier which offers 0.03 per cent gain accuracy using a software adjustable gain (in 1V/V increments) from 1V/V to 16V/V.... more
National Semiconductor 12-bit, 14-bit ADCs for WiMAX
August 28 2007 - National Semiconductor's new 12-Bit ADCs for WiMAX provide an SFDR of 84.1 dB at 250 MHz input frequency, enabling new architectures with decreased component count and increased power efficiency... more
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