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Fairchild Semiconductor?s European Power Seminars Provide Design Solutions to Enable Energy-Efficiency

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^{Published in Science and Technology on Wednesday, January 14th 2009 at 8:33 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-01-14 08:33:59 by Market Wire}  

SAN JOSE, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) will begin its sixth-annual European [ technical seminars ] starting in February, 2009. These one day comprehensive seminars provide power supply design engineers design techniques, product technologies and industry trends to develop energy-efficient applications.

The full-day Power Seminar technical sessions include:

• BLDC Ripple Torque Reduction via Modified Sinusoidal PWM.
• Board Level Evaluation of Power Quad Flat No-Lead (PQFN) Packages.
• Design Considerations for Asymmetric Half-Bridge Converters.
• Designing Auxiliary Power Supplies for High Efficiency and Low Standby Power.
• From Powder to Transformer.
• Understanding Interleaved Boundary Conduction Mode PFC Converters.
• Using MOSFET Selection to Minimize Losses in Low-Output-Voltage DC-DC Converters.

Fairchild's European Power Seminars will be held in more than twenty cities across Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, Israel and Turkey. A list of these locations, schedules and descriptions of each technical session, as well as registration information is available at: [ www.fairchildsemi.com/powerseminar/ ]. These Power Seminars were also held in North and South America and Asia during 2008.

"Fairchild's in-depth Power Seminars are presented by energy-efficiency experts in the field of power electronics. These experts will discuss methods to optimize system power with specific analog, discrete and optoelectronic solutions. Design engineers can expect to learn techniques to improve system performance, comply with energy-efficiency regulations and achieve significant overall system-level cost savings," said Andrea Mirenda, Fairchild's vice president of Marketing. "We're pleased to again offer these Power Seminars. They are part of our Global Power Resource^SM, a network of worldwide power design centers, [ online design tools ] and system design experts who partner closely with customers to optimize and innovate designs for electronic applications."

About Fairchild Semiconductor:

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) is a global leader delivering energy-efficient power analog and power discrete solutions. Fairchild is The Power Franchise®, providing leading-edge silicon and packaging technologies, manufacturing strength and system expertise for consumer, communications, industrial, portable, computing and automotive systems. An application-driven, solution-based semiconductor supplier, Fairchild provides online design tools and design centers worldwide as part of its comprehensive Global Power Resource^SM. Please contact us on the web at [ www.fairchildsemi.com ].