Intersil launches an environment light and infrared digital converter with LED drive

The global high performance analog Intersil semiconductor design and manufacturing leader announced, launched with LED driven environment light and infrared digital converter ISL29015, is currently the industry's highest performance / integrated optical proximity sensor.

ISL29015 Intersil is the newest member of ambient light sensor and proximity sensor series, and Intersil at the beginning of November 2008 has just launched a digital optical sensor ISL29020 with low power consumption and high sensitivity, with I2C interface. ISL29015 launch, so that the product line more complete. It is understood that the ISL29015 can detect ambient light and infrared light, so that precise backlight and display brightness control is possible, but also allows the device to use the device to detect the distance can be approached. The device can work under harsh lighting conditions, such as direct sunlight or under the cover of a dark glass. High integration and ultra small size (2mm x 2.1mm), which means that ISL29015 allows the design engineer to approach the detection solution to reduce the area of the board to the discrete component scheme of 1/5.

In addition, the ISL29015 ODFN package is completely transparent, can accurately measure the brightness of ambient light, will not cause any impact on the results of the measurement of the package. At the same time, ISL29015 has a great improvement in power consumption. When the ambient light is used to control the brightness and to measure the distance of the infrared measurement, the typical power supply current of the device is only 50mA, which is 6 times smaller than that of the current optical detection solution.

It is reported that ISL29015 is now available in 6 lead ODFN package, the order of up to $1000 per piece price of $1.74 per piece.