The bay interface card enables a single system controller to interface with, monitor, and control up to 192 GP100 or NE075 rectifiers – with up to eight cards supported per system controller. It also allows customers to incrementally build out larger power systems with smaller-capacity rectifiers (utilizing smaller, more cost-effective AC breakers) to meet their evolving power needs.

This ability to build out larger power systems is critical to meet today’s requirements of facilities with high power demands such as DC data centers, central offices, and cable head-end centers.

Going forward, BIC-11 will be an available option for all new GPS-series power systems, and it also will be available to retrofit and expand existing systems.

Additional features of the BIC-11-enabled GPS Power Systems include onboard temperature monitoring that provides a bay-level indication of cabinet temperature, an additional shunt input (compared to previous versions), and RS-485 concentrator functionality.

To learn more about the functionality the BIC-11 enables in ABB’s GPS-series power systems, click here. 

In the medical device space, safety and reliability are paramount. Using power supplies that meet the industry’s stringent standards is one of the core ways to help ensure these requirements are met. Helping to meet this need, ABB Power Conversion has introduced its new MPE2000AC48_200AC24 (MPE2000) rectifier, which has been designed specifically with medical applications in mind.

The new 2,000-watt (W), -48 volt (V) medical rectifier adheres to various industry standards such as EN60601-1, IEC 60601-1, ES 60601-1, and CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60601-1:14. It features a high degree of isolation from human touch to help minimize risk in medical environments, making it well-suited for use in pulsed-laser medical devices including, but not limited to, cardiovascular and orthopedic interventions as well as general medical and lab use.

The MPE2000 power supply is fan-cooled, designed for stand-alone use, and can achieve a peak efficiency of up to 93.5%. It can charge an output capacitive load of up to 18,000uf with constant current and monotonic voltage rise to 48V during charge times. In addition, the new medical rectifier has an integrated 24V, 100W housekeeping circuit and a 5V standby voltage at 0.25W.

The rectifier also meets the rigorous transient response requirements of demanding, heavy pulse-load applications such as medical lasers. It features a universal input, a wide operating temperature range of -20 to 70 C, and an 11-inch (L) by 5-inch (W) by 5-inch (H) form factor.

“Powering medical lasers presents a few critical challenges that must be overcome to help ensure reliable, efficient, and safe operation,” said Gopal Mitra, industrial segment leader, ABB Power Conversion. “First, there is the safety aspect. Many of these devices are in relatively close proximity to patients and operators, so power must be sufficiently isolated from personnel. Second, pulse load applications like this can put significant stress on a power supply – cycling on and off thousands of times per second – making power reliability and quality vital. There is also the trend of these devices requiring more power in existing or smaller footprints. We’ve taken all of the factors into account when designing our new MPE2000 rectifier to help ensure our customers’ power needs and challenges are met and addressed.”

Additional features of the new MPE2000AC48_200AC24 include:

• Low leakage current rating of 300 uARMS.
• Class B EMI performance.
• PMBus* communication protocol.
• Mounting holes for panel mounting.
• Direct wire screw terminal connections.
• Shock and vibration performance in line with IPC-9592B, making the power supply suitable for mobile cart applications.

Plano, Texas – February 26, 2019 –

The DGD2003S8, DGD2005S8, and DGD2012S8 are 200V gate drivers covering half-bridge and high-side/low-side topologies, offered in the standard low-profile SO-8 package. These devices feature junction isolated level-shift technology to create a floating channel high-side driver for use in a bootstrap topology operating at up to 200V, with the ability to drive two N-channel MOSFETs in a half-bridge configuration.

All devices in the series feature standard TTL/CMOS logic inputs with Schmitt triggering and are able to operate down to 3.3V, making it simple to interface the drivers to control circuitry. The outputs have been designed to withstand negative transients and include undervoltage lock-out for the high-side and low-side drivers.

With a source and sink current of 290mA and 600mA, respectively for the DGD2003S8 and DGD2005S8, and 1.9A and 2.3A, respectively for the DGD2012S8, power efficiency is maintained across the range. The DGD2003S8 features a fixed internal deadtime of 420ns, while the DGD2005S8 has a maximum propagation time of 30ns when switching between high-side and low-side.

The DGD2003S8, DGD2005S8 and DGD2012S8 are available in the SO-8 package and operate across an extended temperature range of -40°C to +125°C. They are priced at $0.35 each for DGD2003S8 and DGD2005S8, and $0.53 each for DGD2012S8 in quantities of 5000.

Further information is available at www.diodes.com

This includes substantial orders from Diesel Locomotive Works worth 61 crores. With these order wins, the company has a strong all time high pending order book of Rs. 292.92 crore.

Commenting on the order, Mr. Suramya Nevatia, CEO, Hind Rectifiers Ltd. said, “The orders booked are for a new product which was launched last year. Through backward integration, the company is able to substantially reduce import cost for the product, thereby helping the product margin to be upwards of 10%.

The Company is highly focused on R&D and the future of Hirect is power packed with innovation and diversification.”

Hirect is gradually transforming from being just a cost effective manufacturing company to an indigenous technology company.

With India being at the crux of infrastructural and transportation growth, there are exponential possibilities, and Hirect will be capitalising on all the right ones.

Plano, Texas – 27 November, 2018 –

A wide operating voltage range of 1.6V to 5.5V enables the parts to be used with a variety of system voltages. Operating and release points for the magnetic switch are tightly controlled over temperature and supply voltage thanks to its advanced stabilizing technique, delivering accurate and repeatable performance. Flux density switching points are typically ±60 Gauss (6mT) to operate and ±45 Gauss (4.5mT) to release.

The AH1911 and AH1921 are ideal for battery-powered devices where its ultra-low power consumption and wider operating voltage range promote extended battery life. Typical applications include medical and consumer products, tamper detection for e-meters, smoke detectors, IoT devices and general level/proximity detection.

Available in the industry-standard three-pin SC59 package, the AH1911 and AH1921 feature push-pull and open-drain outputs, respectively. Both are specified to operate over the -40°C to +85°C temperature range and have a high ESD rating of 6kV (Human Body Model).

“These sensors, with their stable BOP/BRP and ultra-low power consumption, provide market-leading performance at the best cost/performance ratio,” said Charles Kuo, worldwide sensor marketing manager for Diodes Incorporated.

Further information is available at www.diodes.com.

Plano, Texas – 9 August, 2018

The AP72200 employs Diodes Incorporated’s proprietary buck/boost current-mode control technology to achieve excellent voltage regulation and a continuous output current of up to 2A. The design allows for seamless transition between buck and boost operation while the wide 2.3V to 5.5V input voltage range provides flexibility of supply and produces between 2.6V to 5.14V output voltage.

The high level of integration, along with low quiescent current and wide input voltage range, make the AP72200 well-suited for a wide range of portable applications including smartphones, tablets, and other battery-operated consumer devices.

Many of the features of the AP72200 are user-configurable through an industry-standard I²C interface, which can operate in a standard mode, fast mode, fast-mode plus, and high-speed mode. This includes programmable-output voltage ramp-up and ramp-down slew-rates, output-active discharge, over-voltage protection threshold, and over-current threshold. The AP72200 can also be configured to operate in PWM or PFM mode, as well as in ultrasonic mode, which reduces the switching frequency to avoid the generation of sub-harmonic frequencies in the region of 20kHz that can cause interference in the audible frequency range. The buck/boost output can also be disabled using the I²C interface, allowing a master device to control the operation of the regulator across a standard I²C bus. The output voltage can be set to between 2.60V and 5.14V in 0.02V increments by programming the device over I²C.

The integrated H-Bridge MOSFETs feature extremely low R_DS(ON) of 25mΩ and a shutdown current of less than 1µA. Quiescent current is as low as 20µA when operating in non-switching mode and a typical of 29µA in PFM mode. The switching frequency in continuous switching mode is typically 2.5MHz, dropping to 27kHz in ultrasonic mode.

The AP72200 is available in a 20-ball WLCSP package measuring 2.125mm x 1.750mm and priced at $0.50 @ 1k volumes.

Further information is available at www.diodes.com

Plano, Texas – 17 July, 2018

Designed to operate in Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM), Discontinuous Conduction Mode (DCM) and Quasi-Resonant mode (QR), the APR346 is used to drive an external MOSFET to deliver the benefits of Synchronous Rectification (SR), which provides significantly higher performance and efficiency than diode-based secondary side rectification. SR is now preferred by power adapter manufacturers and is expected to form the basis of power adapters for notebooks, mobile phones and a range of other portable devices, many of which will be adopting the USB Type-C connector with PD (Power Delivery) capabilities.

The APR346 requires very few additional components and, because it is designed to operate with an external MOSFET, it offers maximum design flexibility. With fast turn-on and turn-off times of 70ns and 100ns (typical) respectively, it achieves high performance through directly sensing the Drain-Source voltage of the external MOSFET and rapidly turning the MOSFET on or off according to demand from the load. A built-in minimum on-time of 1.6μs (typical) effectively blanks out any potential Drain voltage ringing to maintain efficient operation as the load current begins to flow through the channel.

The APR346 is available in the small outline SOT26 package and is priced at $0.40 in 1000 units.

Further information is available at www.diodes.com

Plano, Texas –  12^th July, 2018

The AL17050 has been developed to accept an AC input voltage between 85V_AC and 265V_AC, making it suitable for any region. The internal MOSFET is able to withstand voltages of up to 500V yet is optimized for low-power applications, meaning the device only consumes 100μA of static current. Furthermore, the device automatically adjusts to low loads, so it delivers excellent overall efficiency.

The non-isolated design minimizes the BoM for manufacturers developing applications for the IoT, such as smart appliances, smart sensors, and connected lighting. The AL17050 delivers a constant 3.3V/5V at up to 60mA, making it ideal for devices based on low power microcontrollers (MCUs) that integrated IoT connectivity such as Bluetooth^® LE or Zigbee.

Using the AL17050, manufacturers will be able to develop IoT applications that are powered directly from a high-voltage AC supply yet deliver outstanding power efficiency. With the number of devices in the IoT expected to rise to many billions in the next few years, energy efficiency is now a major design consideration.

Alongside its excellent regulation and high-power efficiency, the AL17050 also integrates protection against over-temperature, over-load, output-short, and open-loop conditions. It is available in the SOT25 package and requires very few additional components in a buck converter configuration, making it suitable for small products where space is often limited.

The AL17050 is priced at $0.125 each in 10K quantities.

Further information is available at www.diodes.com

 Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG.

Zigbee is a trademark of the Zigbee Alliance.

Santa Clara, CA – June 5, 2018 – Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic, analog and mixed-signal semiconductor markets, today announced at the PCI-SIG^® Developers Conference in Santa Clara, a line of signal switches, clock generators and clock buffers for PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) 4.0 technology applications.

Addressing the expanding market for signal routing with different protocols in PCs, servers, embedded applications including artificial intelligence and fast data transfer generally, the PI3DBS16212 and PI3DBS16412 are 1-20Gbps 2-channel and 4-channel 2:1 differential multiplexers/demultiplexers with extremely low loss, reflection, crosstalk and skew. Offering greater flexibility of channels and routing, typical applications include switching high-speed serial signals employing the latest protocols, including: 20Gbps Thunderbolt^TM 3; 16Gbps PCIe 4.0 architecture; 10Gbps USB3.1 Gen2; 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI 3 (SAS3); 8.1Gbps Display Port 4 (DP4); 12Gbps HDMI2.1, and 10Gbps Ethernet standards.

For the emerging PCIe 4.0 applications, PI3DBS16212 and PI3DBS16412 offer excellent signal integrity with an insertion loss of just -1.3dB at 16Gbps. In this application, minimal skew between channels eases the timing budget between nodes, and power dissipation is very low at typically 300µA. The parts are fabricated with silicon on insulator (SOI) technology and have a very small profile package at 2mm x 2mm for the 2:1 multiplexer.

Also driven by the adoption of the new PCIe 4.0 standard, the PI6CG18201, PI6CG18401, PI6CG18801, PI6CG15401 clock generators provide 1.8V 2/4/8 HCSL outputs and 1.5V 4 HCSL outputs, respectively, and use Diodes Incorporated’s proprietary phase-locked loop design to achieve the required tight jitter performance of less than 0.5ps. The parts also provide the reference clock for SERDES chipsets supporting the PCIe 4.0 interface. Each output has its own enable with programmable slew rate and amplitude. On-chip termination resistors are incorporated saving up to 32 external resistors for the 8-channel version for space-constrained applications with the parts consuming approximately 85% less power than traditional PCIe clocks. A spread-spectrum option is also available to reduce EMI in sensitive applications.

PI6CB18200, PI6CB18401, PI6CB18601, and PI6CB18801 are PCIe 4.0 2/4/6/8 HCSL output clock buffers fanned-out from a reference input. Like the clock generators, the slew rate and amplitude of each output is programmable and there are individual output enables for better power management. Additive jitter for the clock buffers is less than 0.05ps.

“As a PCI-SIG member for more than a decade, Diodes Incorporated has been involved in offering semiconductor solutions for the PCI Express market,” said Al Yanes, PCI-SIG President and Chairman. “Its support of the PCIe 4.0 architecture helps expand the PCI Express ecosystem.”  

“Diodes Incorporated is proud to enhance our high speed serial connectivity offerings with our high performance signal muxes, clock generators and clock buffers for PCI Express 4.0 applications at 16Gbps and Thunderbolt 3 applications at 20Gbps,” said Kay Annamalai, Senior Marketing Director, Diodes Incorporated. “The signal muxes offer the lowest insertion loss, low power consumption and small profile package, and our wide selection of PCI Express 4.0 architecture clock generators and clock buffers meet stringent jitter requirements whilst achieving lowest power, BOM cost and board space thus enabling computer, server, storage, networking, automotive and embedded applications.”

Prices for the PI3DBS16212, PI3DBS16412 signal switches range from $0.68 to $1.32 and the PI6CG18201, PI6CG18401, PI6CG18801, PI6CG15401 PCIe 4.0 clock generators and PI6CB18200, PI6CB18401, PI6CB18601, and PI6CB18801 PCIe 4.0 clock buffers range from $1.45 to $2.24 each for 5K volumes.

Visitors to the PCI-SIG Developers Conference can find Diodes on booth 8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, June 5-6, 2018 in Santa Clara, California.

Further information is available at www.diodes.com