Dialog DA9053 provides power solution for i.MX 6 multi-core processors

Dialog has introduced and demonstrated a new power source design for Freescale's i.MX 6 dual-core/quad-core processors. The company's single-chip system power management chip (PMIC), model DA9053, is at the heart of the power management design for Freescale's i.MX 6 dual-core/quad-core application processors, meeting the power requirements of tablets, infotainment systems, media hubs and other smart devices based on Freescale's multi-core i.MX 6 series application processors, providing longer battery life and greatly improving the user experience. 
 
Christophe Chene, vice president of Asia business at Dialog, said that Dialog's power management chip has great flexibility and configurability, as well as low power consumption, to meet customers' various application needs. Freescale is one of Dialog's strategic partners and is supported by Dialog's processor partner program. Support for i.MX 6 Solo/SoloLite is now available through the Dialog DA9053, a branded series of devices that were previously used in Freescale's i.MX53 multimedia platform.

According to Charles Limonard, product marketing manager at Dialog, the Dialog DA9053 can power Freescale i.MX 6 series processors and system peripherals - including external memory, wireless LAN (WLAN), Bluetooth, global positioning system (GPS), FM receiver and modem. The new power supply original design circuit has a very small (<200mm2) effective PCB footprint, and the height of external components is only 1mm, including all inductors, ensuring the creation of thinner and lighter mobile products with longer battery life.

To achieve higher performance and enhanced multimedia capabilities, the Dialog power management chip can provide a total power supply capacity of more than 14A for the Freescale i.MX6 series system, including the CPU, memory and other peripherals located on the original design circuit board. In addition, the flexibility and configurability of the chip can accurately control the startup sequence, output voltage and DVC curve. With the wide power supply range of 2.7V~5.5V of this PMIC, the original design circuit can be powered by a single lithium battery and a 5V power supply. The original design circuit can provide multiple settings for each peripheral voltage rail, and can also provide programmable control for multiple power-on procedures, as well as an accurate power consumption analysis architecture that can cut off the power consumption of any i.MX 6 series application. Charles Limonard said that the successful launch of this intelligent power management chip is also key to the use of an advanced PMIC process technology. This is a 0.13μm BCD technology developed by Dialog in cooperation with TSMC in the first quarter of this year. This new process supports the integration of diverse power management technologies, including various high-voltage field-effect transistor (FET) components, enabling Dialog to create more highly integrated devices in smaller packages, thereby reducing the required circuit board space and providing higher performance single-chip system power management chips for convenient devices.