NXP, the newly independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today launched a new family of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection chips designed to support next-generation UXGA PC and 1080p TVs resolutions used in PC notebooks, mainboards, TVs, VGA cards, set top boxes and other applications supporting the VGA interface. Offering the highest screen resolutions available on the market today, Ultra eXtended Graphics Array (UXGA) is capable of displaying 1600 x 1200 resolution, or 1.9 million pixels, providing the user with a vibrant viewing experience. The IP4770/71/72CZ16 family of integrated ESD protection chips provides manufacturers a 90-percent reduction in space at board level, resulting in major cost savings due to the reduced number of components required.

NXP’s new family of ICs are application-specific solutions, offering some of the highest levels of ESD protection, level shifting for DDC lines, buffering for sync drivers and impedance matching for the sync drivers of VGA ports in a single chip. As the demand for greater screen resolution increases, these new products from NXP support the new standards and allow manufacturers to develop new vibrant media technologies.

“As devices become smaller, electrostatic discharge becomes an even greater issue, as sudden bursts of electricity can damage the small electrical components. These electrical discharges can damage the product and eventually result in device failure, which can have significant cost implications for the user,” said Dr Tamim Sidiki, international product manager, Integrated Discretes, NXP Semiconductors. “The VGA cables used in today’s appliances are of lower quality and longer than those previously used in the past. To address this NXP has designed a solution which requires lowest line capacitance at the VGA port and the fastest pulse rise and fall times. This latest chip family provides a pulse rise and fall time of only 1.5 ns at the sync drivers, the lowest available value for such integrated solutions.”

NXP’s family of ESD protection chips offers impedance matching of only 10 ohms made possible through an innovative production process at one of NXP’s fabrication plants in Hamburg, Germany.

“NXP has developed an inventive solution which has helped us enhance our product range, “said Yang Jer Hung, section manager platform development, SIS. “We’ve incorporated the ESD protection chips into a number of our reference boards, to minimize the damage caused during the installation process. These products will help enhance our range of logic products and help our customers avoid the damage ESD can cause to electrical devices.”

Availability

The NXP IP4770/71/72CZ16 family of integrated ESD protection chips are available immediately.

Further information on the ESD protection chip from NXP is available at:
http://www.nxp.com/pip/IP4770CZ16_4771_4772.html

About NXP

NXP is a top 10 semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company has 37,000 employees working in 20 countries across the world. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.