October 2006

Rev 1

1/10

10

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Package

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STN690A

N690A

SOT-223

Tape & reel

STN690A

Medium Current, High Performance, Low Voltage

NPN Transistor

General features

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Very low Collector to Emitter saturation voltage

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3A continuous collector current

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In compliance with the 2002/93/EC European

Directive

Description

The device in manufactured in low voltage NPN

Planar Technology by using a “Base Island”

layout. The resulting transistor shows exceptional

high gain performance coupled with very low

saturation voltage.

Applications

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Power management in portable equipment

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Voltage regulation in bias supply circuits

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Switching regulator in battery charger

applications

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Heavy load driver

Internal schematic diagram

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