(ams AG) Announces new product AS3665 Smart Notification Lighting

2012-08-27
 2012/08/27, Unterpremstaetten, Austria

ams AG (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for consumer & communications, today releases the AS3665, a new smart LED driver which controls up to 9 LEDs to produce sophisticated indicator lighting effects in mobile devices independent of the power-hungry baseband processor.

 

Applications:

Mobile phone

Tablet Computer

3G and LTE modems

USB dongle stick

Gaming controller

Headsets

Home electronics

 

Quick Features:

Easy command-based programming of all light patterns.

9 leds current source. 3 independent program execution engines.

8bit current level setting and 12bit PWM LED control.

I2C compatible control interface with four pin-selectable addresses.

Flexible General Purpose Output (GPO) for additional interfaces. 

Interrupt pin to notify the baseband IC when a lighting sequence has ended.  It also embeds audio synchronization functionality.

Trigger input interface which synchronizes between multiple devices.

Automatically entering idle state with current consumption down to 10uA when leds are not active.