Fairchild continues to add to its growing amplifier portfolio with the release of a family of amplifiers that combine rail-to-rail output performance with low power and low cost. These amplifiers provide industry leading performance to power ratios. While typically providing ten times more bandwidth and slew rate than CMOS amplifiers in the same supply current class, the products are also priced competitive to CMOS to afford design engineers increased flexibility in circuit designs that must also keep an eye on cost budgets. Fairchild's proprietary gain stage allows the amplifier to achieve high slew rate at low power consumption.

Additionally, the FAN4113 is the industry's first operational amplifier in a SC70 package that is specified at 1.2V operation. These voltage feedback amplifiers are designed for low cost, battery powered commercial applications.

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Fairchild Semiconductor International, 3001 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, CA 95134. Customer Support Center at 888-522-5372; Fax 972-910-8036. Website: "http://i.cmpnet.com/chipcenter/analog/products_700-799/www.fairchildsemi.com"

Fairchild made the effort to make your job easier for finding just the right low-power, high-speed op amp. The following hyperlink will take you directly to Fairchild's High Performance Amplifiers Selection Tree. (see website)

You can view the information in a list or in a parametric table. They give you the ability to input parameters that include rail-to-rail input/output, unity gain bandwidth, supply current per amp, output current, slew rate, and even one to select the package type. When you finish, it lists all the Fairchild products that match your criteria, provides links to a product summary and even a link to the data sheet. How's that for saving you time. You also can look at it the old fashion way - by taking a magnifying glass (zooming in) and scrolling down the entire family, eliminating the parameters that don't fit your needs until you find a match. It works but it's much slower.

The slew rate and bandwidth for most of this family are impressive, but making the products available in SC-70 packaging was a good move by Fairchild. All products mentioned are fully released. You can find detailed information as well as fairly good cross-reference of the main competitors including Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Maxim, National Semiconductor, and a few others. You can check out the detailed information for the product and the cross reference tables at: "http://i.cmpnet.com/chipcenter/analog/products_700-799/www.fairchildsemi.com"