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SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Philips Semiconductors, a division of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHI), today announced the industry's first true capacitor-free regulators, the CapFREE Family of Low-Drop Out Regulators (LDOs). The first member in the family, the 150mA SA57000-xx, provides leading edge performance in drop-out voltage, accuracy, ground-pin current, noise, line and load regulation without requiring external capacitors. This lowers customers' bill of materials, reduces system costs and simplifies the system design.

The SA57000-xx, which offers fixed output voltages between 2.5V and 3.6V, requires no output capacitor because the device's outputs are stable regardless of the equivalent series resistance (ESR). In addition, the elimination of the noise-bypass capacitor creates a smaller footprint enabling more functionality such as thermal and low voltage warning without increasing the pin-count.

``Eliminating capacitors with our CapFREE family is a breakthrough that resonates with system designers everywhere,'' said Zohar Raz, strategic marketing manager, Standard Analog Business Line, Philips Semiconductors. ``These efforts help our customers shrink portable electronics, cellular phones, notebook computers and other highly integrated designs more effectively than ever before. The SA57000-xx, also, paves the way for other CapFREE family members in the low and ultra-low-output-voltage LDOs.''

Pricing and Availability

Philips Semiconductors' CapFREE SA57000-xx comes in a 5-lead SOT23 package priced at USD $.39 per unit in quantities of less than 1,000. The product is available through the company's global sales team. For more information on the CapFREE SA57000-xx, please visit www.philips.semiconductors.com.

About Philips Semiconductors

Philips Semiconductors, which had annual revenues of approximately US$6.3 billion in 2000, designs and manufactures semiconductors and silicon systems platforms. Philips Semiconductors is spearheading the emerging field of systems on silicon solutions with the innovative Nexperia(TM) platform and VLSI Velocity(TM) tool set. The company's Sea-of-IP design methodology allows plug and play intellectual property blocks for easily customizable products. The company is a leader in communications, consumer, PC peripherals and automotive semiconductors, which are key applications for convergence in end-user products. Philips Semiconductors is headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and has operations throughout the world. For more information: www.philips.semiconductors.com.