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Digital Power Solutions

Digital Converters GE’s Critical Power business digitally controlled DC-DC power converters provide power engineers with a broad suite of information and tools to innovate their designs. Digital models offer more flexibility, often require less real estate, and deliver higher performance at an attractive price. The true power of digital communication becomes apparent when measurements and adjustments can be made instantaneously. Digital modules provide the ability to diagnose and refine designs prior to final production, monitor and adjust running product and deliver exceptional thermal de-rating. Digital solutions combine voltage range accuracy while consuming less board space at competitive costs. The non-isolated DLynx* family and the isolated Barracuda* family offer both an industry-standard DOSA footprint to ensure hardware compatibility and a standard PMBus interface to ensure software compatibility to minimize risk for future designs. DLynx* The DLynx* portfolio is available in 3A, 6A, 12A, and 20A digital and analog versions in addition to a 40A module. The DC-DC POL converters efficiently power circuit board electronics such as processors, memory, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other silicon devices. The standards-based DOSA footprints and analog/digital compatibility with existing circuit board designs shrinks the size, lowers the cost and improves the performance of DC-DC converter modules. An industry-standard PMBus interface and space-saving Tunable Loop* technology deliver leading current density. With proven tools to simplify design, DLynx* modules can be implemented with only three external components. Adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) leverages silicon performance to reduce power consumption through tight digital control (±0.4 percent) of the output voltage and a ±1 percent controller set point reference.

Barracuda* The cost-effective, high-efficiency Barracuda* series delivers digital power communication and control in a quarter-brick and eighth-brick DOSA standard footprint. Power design engineers can deploy the new Barracuda* modules in existing power designs as DOSA-compliant, drop-in upgrades for unregulated and semi-regulated bus converters. As part of the Total Efficiency* architecture, the new Barracuda* modules deliver peak efficiency of up to 96 percent. A new digital PMBus interface supports a wide range of commands to both control and monitor the Barracuda* modules with a full range of protections and warnings, digital on/off, trim, margin, power good, rise time adjustment, and input under voltage lockout. SlimLynx* The SlimLynx* 12A is the first offering within a new series of encapsulated, digital and analog, non-isolated, DC-DC converters from GE’s Critical Power business. The ultra-slim 3mmmodule provides industry-leading power density to reduce heat dissipation inside industrial, networking and telecommunication devices, while also delivering exceptionally high energy efficiency, peaking at over 95 percent. See www. slimlynx.com for more information.

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