NPC has released the EL sheet lamp driver SM8140 already, and this IC makes a success of making a much smaller EL lamp driver, SM8141A.

Recently portable communication tools like as PHS/CDMA/Cellular are getting smaller and smaller, and these small-sized equipments need much smaller ICs. NPC's SM8141A employs 8-pin VSOP package and built-in MOS transistor which enables to reduce the number of external parts