TDK-Lambda chooses digital controllers from Powervation for POL power electronics modules
CORK, Ireland, 24 June 2014.Power electronics designers at TDK-Lambda Americas Inc. in San Diego needed digital controllers for the company's iJB series high-current digital point-of-load (POL) modules. They found their solution from Powervation Ltd. in Cork, Ireland.
The iJB series products support low-voltage, high-current operation while providing plus-or-minus 0.5 percent set-point accuracy over line, load, and temperature range.
While the PMBus functionality of the module provides real-time telemetry of voltage, current, and temperature and enables programmability of the DC-DC converter, the iJB series products also employ function setting pins, enabling them to be used in non-PMBus applications.
The target applications for the iJB series include: servers, routers and other Information & Communication Technology (ICT) equipment, T&M and industrial equipment.
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"Using Powervation's intelligent auto-tuning technology, Auto-Control, the iJB POL modules bring better dynamic performance and system stability to the application -- autonomously managing circuit and load variations due temperature, component tolerances, ageing and board impedances," says David Norton, vice president of marketing at TDK-Lambda.
Powervation's Auto-Control is an intelligent auto-tuning technology that optimizes dynamic performance and system stability in real-time without requiring noise injection or the drawbacks of periodic techniques, company officials say.
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This is a key benefit for modules and other designs that drive unknown or variable output loads, and addresses the challenges of load parameter drift that occurs over temperature and time.
For more information contact Powervation online at www.powervation.com, or TDK Lambda at www.tdk-lambda.com.
John Keller | Editor
John Keller is editor-in-chief of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, which provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronic and optoelectronic technologies in military, space, and commercial aviation applications. A member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since the magazine's founding in 1989, Mr. Keller took over as chief editor in 1995.
