GE Energy has licensed the DLynx Digital Point-of-Load (POL) DC power converter product portfolio to Japan-based FDK Corporation.
This technology licensing agreement, according to the parties, will help original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers in Asia optimise energy efficiency, lower cooling requirements, reduce risk and accelerate new product development efforts.
The DLynx portfolio of products utilise digital technology to power silicon devices such as processors and memory devices on circuit boards. They are fully compatible and interoperable with each other, ranging in capacity from 3 Amps to 40 Amps.
The licensing agreement with FDK includes DOSA digital POL standard products. Designed to lower risk and accelerate new product development efforts across multiple OEMs, the standards-based DOSA footprints and analogue/digital compatibility with existing circuit board designs shrinks the size, lowers the cost and improves the performance of DC-DC converter modules.
Digital power provides access to critical load information including current and voltage, enabling the system to monitor the power consumption at the highest possible resolution, either at the processor or other silicon load.
Offering double the density of a discrete power design, DLynx POLs meet IPC-9592 performance and reliability requirements.
The licensing agreement between GE Energy and FDK enables OEM customers to source digital POLs from multiple vendors.
Because of this agreement, OEMs can avoid industry interoperability challenges of multi-vendor differences in control loop dynamics, digital instruction set functionality and performance characteristics.