Nippon Precision Circuits Inc. (abbreviated NPC; Head office: 4-3 Fukuzumi 2-Chome, President: Mr. Tabuchi) announces the commencement of volume production and shipping of the SM5304AV 1-channel video buffer with variable lowpass filter built-in.

NPC have achieved success in the video equipment device market with the SM5300 and SM5301, devices that meet a wide range of high-resolution and high image quality requirements, and we continue to actively pursue development within this product group.
The SM5304AV is a 1-channel analog lowpass filter IC with buffer amplifier built-in for widely popular composite-terminal video signal input/outputs. It has an 8th-order lowpass filter built-in for increased aliasing noise elimination, and has been designed with the principle aims of suppressing image flicker and image quality degradation as much as is possible.
The SM5304AV can find use in a wide range of applications from DVD car navigation systems and portable DVD players, where high image quality and surface mounting area and height are limited, to PDP and D-TV large-scale consumer electronics products.

In the future, NPC's plan is to continue the product series development, making practical use of element technologies.