Intersil Announces ISL98611 Power Management IC For Smartphones - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Intersil Corp. (ISIL) announced the ISL98611 display power and LED driver for smartphones. The company said ISL98611 is the first power management IC that integrates the display power and backlight LED driver functions in a single chip. It significantly improves efficiency of both functions to increase smartphone battery life by an hour or more.

The company noted that ISL98611 backlight LED driver delivers seven percent higher efficiency (up to 93 percent) than competitive multi-chip solutions. Intersil said the ISL98611 improves display brightness uniformity and color consistency. The ISL98611 has a boost regulator, LDO and inverting charge pump for generating two output rails at +5V and -5V in a single device. It also includes a boost regulator with 3-channel current sinks for the LED backlight driver.