ST-Ericsson Boosts Battery Life

ST-Ericsson (News - Alert) is launching a new product family that improves the battery life of mobile handsets and other connected devices. The power management components can extend the talk time or Internet connection time of a mobile device by up to 30 percent compared with solutions that supply power directly from the battery.  

PM3533 is an all-in-one solution that enables a device's dual-mode RF subsystem to operate with low cut-off voltage battery technology, thereby using all the energy available in the battery.  PM3110 is 20% smaller than other DC/DC regulators for RF power amplifiers. Scheduled to be in volume production in the first quarter of 2011, both the PM3533 and PM3110 dynamically match the power supply to the needs of the RF power amplifier, thereby reducing the overall energy usage of the device.

"Matching energy supply and demand in real-time is the key to ensuring that power-hungry mobile devices can frequently connect to the Internet, access multimedia services and make voice calls without exhausting their batteries," said Patrick Dureault, vice president and head of the Analog and Mixed Signal business unit of ST-Ericsson (News - Alert).

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