Atmel has announced the availability of their new ATR0881 laser
diode driver. While small in size, the ATR0881 can connect up to three laser diodes, giving drives the ability to support DVD and CD as
well as blue laser formats like Blu-ray or HD DVD.
Atmel(R) Corporation(Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the
ATR0881 laser diodedriver IC for use in combined HD-DVD/Blu-ray, DVD, and CD drives. TheATR0881 is housed in a 4 mm x 4 mm QFN24 package.
This is the industry'ssmallest laser diode driver solution and is especially suited for smallslim drives used in notebook computers as
well as for half-height drives indesktop PCs and consumer DVD recorders.
The ATR0881's QFN housing is a lead-free paddle-up
package with theexposed paddle on top to improve heat dissipation. A bottom-located exposedpaddle, as found in conventional QFN packages,
causes difficulties due toits inaccessibility for circuit design, particularly in optical pick-upproducts. This design restriction is
eliminated with Atmel's ATR0881.
Samples of the ATR0881 are nowavailable and are priced at US $5.00 in quantities of 10k. If
you'd like to read more, Atmel's entire press release can be found here.
