A8732

Summary

Ultra Small Mobile Phone Xenon Photoflash Capacitor Charger with IGBT Driver

Description

The Allegro®A8732 is a Xenon photoflash charger IC designed to meet the needs of ultra low power, small form factor cameras, particularly camera phones. By using primary-side voltage sensing, the need for a secondary-side resistive voltage divider is eliminated. This has the additional benefit of reducing leakage currents on the secondary side of the transformer. To extend battery life, the A8732 features very low supply current draw (0.5 μA max in shutdown mode). The switch current limit can be programmed from 0.45 to 1.5 A, in 16 steps with single wire interface, through the CHARGE pin.