Fairchild Semiconductor Wins Best Reference Design Award
from Electronic Design-China

SAN JOSE, Calif., – January 18, 2012 – Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has been named a winner in Electronic Design China's 2012 Original Design Awards for Best Reference Design in the Power Supply category. The award was given based on a submission from Fairchild about a total solution for a 200W LED street lamp power supply, which was developed at Fairchild's Global Power Resource™ Center in China.

The inaugural Original Design Awards are organized by Electronic Design-China, with the goal of highlighting innovative local designs. Winners were selected by the engineering community in China.

The reference design provides LED street lamp designers with a total solution, from AC input to LED string driving stage. Each circuit in this reference design uses a high efficiency topology, as well as high performance controllers and discrete components to achieve a total peak efficiency of 91.26 percent. An efficiency of up to 92.6 percent can be achieved when the LEDs are in an integrated package because this implementation does not require constant current control for each LED string. This type of high efficiency design can reduce temperature increase and extend the lifetime of both the power supply and the LEDs.

Every semiconductor component in the design is from Fairchild, making sourcing easier for customers, and saving engineers time since they do not have to communicate with multiple suppliers.

The reference design is available with comprehensive technical documents, including circuit schematics, PCB diagrams and drawings, BOM and test data. Customers can also request demonstration boards and one-on-one technical support services from FAEs.

"Fairchild Semiconductor is extremely honored to receive this award from Electronic Design-China. I am particularly pleased that this award is for a reference design developed at our Global Power Resource Center in China. It means that the efforts and tremendous skills of our design engineers in China are being recognized for their contribution to Fairchild and the industry as a whole," said Sammy Lam, South China Director of Sales at Fairchild. "The 200W LED street lamp reference design is offered in order to help speed up the design process. Speeding design also speeds time to market and revenue for our customers. This is the win-win relationship Fairchild constantly strives to cultivate within the industry, and we are glad that our efforts have been recognized on this particular occasion."

The Best Reference Design Award is to be presented to Fairchild at a ceremony in Shenzhen, on 13 January.

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