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Advanced Linear announces next-gen EPADs

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Analog semiconductor vendor Advanced Linear Devices Inc. (ALD) today announced the launch of the next-generation EPAD architecture offerings. According to an EE Times report, this forms the core technology in the company's precision CMOS devices.

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EPAD technology, which has over the past ten years been deployed in millions of devices, has grown to the next level. Sources at ALD say that the new generation EPAD technology has increased precision and lower power circuit applications.

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The new technology gives unique device parameters by allowing for on-chip and off-chip programming techniques. This means that threshold voltages of on-chip MOSFET devices can be set precisely.

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ALD says the company plans to announce in the second half of 2010 an entire new family of low voltage nano-power MOSFET products as well as other circuits that will take advantage of the new capabilities of the EPADs.

According to a statement from the company, the new EPAD technology meets industry-standard CMOS technology and simultaneously contributes to a reduction in power consumption, improvement on precision and lower circuit function cost. Due to this device performance features can be improved and designers can create and work on designs more economically.

Company sources say that the new ALD product families, which use the new EPAD architecture, will be released starting in the fourth quarter.

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