The SP4490 electroluminescent lamp driver provides designers of cell phones PDA's and other handheld, portable electronic devices with an integrated solution for driving two EL lamps independently. The SP4490 reduces system cost, component count and board space requirements over a discrete 2-EL driver approach. The EL lamps operate in opposite phase so the SP4490 can be easily implemented in applications driving multi-color or multi-segment EL lamps. The SP4490 operates from a +2.2V to +6.0V battery source. The device features a low power standby mode which draws less than 1A. The frequency of the internal oscillator is set using a single external resistor. A single external inductor is required to generate the high voltage AC outputs to drive the EL lamps. All input pins are ESD protected with internal diodes to VDD and VSS.