Fairchild Semiconductor's High Bandwidth Video Switch Wins ``Product

Fairchild Semiconductor's High Bandwidth Video Switch Wins ``Product of the Year'' Award from analogZONE

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2005--

FSAV430 Provides Ultra Wide Bandwidth (1.1 GHz) with Excellent Signal Fidelity
    Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS), the leading supplier of power products for portable applications, announced that its FSAV430 high-bandwidth video switch was recently designated "Best Video Switch" by the editors of analogZONE in their prestigious annual "Product of the Year" award competition. The FSAV430 was selected on the basis of strong technical merit, design innovation and marketability.
    "Wide bandwidth and excellent signal integrity are the characteristics that designers are looking for in video switching applications," says Jerry Johnston, Fairchild product manager for analog switches. "The FSAV430 provides excellent high-resolution performance, and its compact package is also ideal for space-constrained portable applications."
    "This part will do exceptionally well," stated analogZONE. "It's about time a vendor provided a high-frequency solution such as this."
    The FSAV430 is a wide-bandwidth (-3 db @ 1.1 GHz) quad Single Pole/Double Throw (SPDT) (2-to-1 multiplexer/demultiplexer) video switch featuring ultra low-power operation of 1uA maximum. The low-power feature enables FSAV430 to be the ideal candidate for portable and handheld designs such as portable media players, cell phones and notebooks.
    In addition to video output pin sharing in slim DVD designs, Fairchild's FSAV430 is also ideal for emerging high-resolution video applications such as HDTV front-end designs with YPbPr and RGB inputs up to QXGA resolution. The device's low ON resistance and wide-bandwidth characteristics allow passing high-definition video signal with minimum edge and magnitude distortion especially under highly capacitive loads. The FSAV430's excellent crosstalk performance of less than -75 dB eliminates annoying monitor ghosting effects.
    Although specifically designed for the volume applications of component video switching (RGB and YPbPr) in televisions, monitors, home theater receivers and other electronics, the FSAV430 is also useful as a coaxial relay replacement for RF switching up to about 150 mW, which covers a huge number of potential applications.

    Editor's Note: For more information about this product, go to: http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pf/FS/FSAV430.html.

    For information on other Fairchild products, design tools and sales contacts, please visit http://www.fairchildsemi.com.

    About Fairchild Semiconductor

    Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) is the leading global supplier of high performance power products critical to today's leading electronic applications in the computing, communications, consumer, industrial and automotive segments. As The Power Franchise(R), Fairchild offers the industry's broadest portfolio of components that optimize system power through minimization, conversion, management and distribution functions. Fairchild's 9,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog & mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, USA and numerous locations around the world. Please contact us on the web at http://www.fairchildsemi.com.

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CONTACT: Fairchild Semiconductor, South Portland Louise Merriman, 207-775-8761 Fax: 207-775-8745 Louise.Merriman@fairchildsemi.com or WelComm, Inc. (Agency), San Diego Mike Gerow, 858-279-2100 Fax: 858-279-5400 mike@welcomm.com

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