
CADEKA Microcircuits has introduced the CLC3800 and CLC3801 low power, triple video amplifiers. These amplifiers are designed to meet the requirements of cost-sensitive, standard definition (SD) consumer and industrial video applications. Carrying the COMLINEAR brand, these amplifiers offer high performance consuming 26.4mW and offer good differential gain/phase (0.05%/0.02°). The COMLINEAR CLC3800 and CLC3801 feature integrated 8MHz, 4th-order low pass filters designed to cleanly pass SD video signals while filtering out noise and other unwanted signals, resulting in a crisper, cleaner video signal. These amplifiers also integrate high-performance, fixed-gain video drivers that utilise CADEKA's amplifier design expertise. The CLC3800 offers a fixed gain of 6dB. If additional gain is required, the CLC3801 video amplifier offers a fixed gain of 9dB. The two gain options make these amplifiers suitable for use with a variety of video DACs and encoders. Each channel of the CLC3800 or CLC3801 can drive two AC- or DC-coupled video loads. This allows today's STB, PVR, LCDTV, portable DVD, or video surveillance systems to provide the end user with additional output configurations. Examples of these include: Configuration 1: Dual RGB, YPbPr, or YUV; Configuration 2: 2 S-Video and dual CV; and Configuration 3: 6 CV channels. Samples of the CLC3800 and CLC3801 are available today in Pb-free, RoHS compliant SOIC-8 packages.