IDT unveils 'industry's most flexible intelligent system power management ic'

The microcontroller based device is targeted for portable consumer products, such as smartphones, portable navigation devices, mobile Internet devices and eBooks. According to IDT, by embedding a microcontroller, the P95020 offers full programmability and flexibility into designs using leading multimedia application processors. The functional blocks can be accessed via I2C and the programmable regulators are designed to satisfy the dynamic voltage adjustment required by application processors. Farshad Zarghami, senior director of product marketing at IDT, said: "The IDT P95020's innovative architecture, with an embedded cpu, can manage all on chip resources and also offload general housekeeping and i/o processing tasks from the application processor. This unique feature, along with programmable system power regulation blocks and an on chip power management scheme, results in higher system performance and longer battery life. "The IDT P95020 is the first in a series of next-generation intelligent system power management solutions being developed by IDT as part of its mixed signal SoC growth strategy." The device is currently sampling to qualified customers and is available in a 10x10mm, 132pin QFN package and a 7x7mm WCSP package.