Fairchild Semiconductor Named Finalist in Electronic Product Design's 2011 e-Legacy Awards

FAN302HL with mWSAVER™ Technology Nominated in the Green Product of the Year Category for Exceeding Energy Star Requirements

SAN JOSE, Calif. – August 2, 2011 – Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has been named a finalist in Electronic Product Design’s 20011 e-Legacy Awards. Fairchild’s FAN302HL PWM controller for low standby power charger applications – nominated in the Green Product of the Year Category for Exceeding Energy Star Requirements – was selected as a finalist after a review of all entries in the category.

Selection of the winner in each category includes an opportunity for readers to vote for their choices. To vote in the 2011 e-Legacy Awards, please click here or visit http://www.epdonthenet.net/awards_vote.aspx. Winners will be announced in London on September 13, 2011.

Developed to address the challenge design engineers face where chargers typically sit plugged in and unused most of the time – yet, still drawing power from the grid – the FAN302HL can reduce standby power, thereby saving energy, meeting government regulations and saving the consumer money.

Incorporating mWSaver™ technology, the device features patented technologies that allow the FAN302HL to minimize standby input power consumption to <10mW@230VAC, exceeding Energy Star program requirements for computers version 5.0 efficiency standards. In addition to computing applications, the FAN302HL is ideal for all chargers devices such as smartphones, cordless phones, DVD/Set-Top Boxes, Power Over Ethernet and small appliances.

The FAN302HL does not require an external secondary-side over-voltage protection (OVP) circuit. If either VS pin OVP or internal over-temperature protection is triggered, the device enters latch mode until AC power is removed, saving second side OVP components and tightening VO protection (<6V).

Fairchild enables engineers to drive innovation in their designs by developing solutions like the FAN302HL – part of a series of products developed using mWSaver™ technology offering best-in-class power savings for power supplies, with the fewest possible components.

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