I interviewed Eric Wong, Vicor’s Vice President of Sales Asia Pacific to find out what was happening in the Chinese Market. There are so many news reports some of which can be misleading or confusing, that I thought it best to go direct to Vicor.
I interviewed Eric Wong, Vicor’s Vice President of Sales Asia Pacific to find out what was happening in the Chinese Market. There are so many news reports some of which can be misleading or confusing, that I thought it best to go direct to Vicor.
Vicor’s new AC Front End Module has an isolated, regulated output of 330 W at 48 Vdc. Its applications are many and varied, including powering rack-mounted equipment in telecommunications or data centres. However designers for such applications sometimes ask why the DC output has been set at 48 V rather than 12 V, or even 5 V?
At Embedded World 2013 Vicor introduced the PI34xx series of Cool-Power ZVS Buck Regulators optimized for 12 V operation (8 V to 18 Vin).
Design trends in the DC-DC converter module market are driving applications in communications (4G & LTE base-stations and fiber infrastructure) as well as the computing and server markets. These are applications that require the engineering community to acquire a deep technical understanding to overcome the many challenges before them.
With telecom and datacenters becoming ever more important to our work and leisure activities, the demand placed upon these applications is increasing dramatically. Every percentage-point increase in efficiency results in significant cash saving for the operator – and hopefully, the customer – in the cost of wasted power.
Within telecommunications and data centres, continuing growth in processing equipment’s power demand is imposing evolutionary change on the power architecture that feeds it.
As rail voltages drop and currents increase, the key to efficient power delivery is use of higher voltages and DC conversion and distribution.
From lossy DC distribution buses in telecom equipments to power hungry datacenter servers and emerging aerospace systems, the quest to further cut power losses and improve the overall efficiency of power solutions in these applications is very high.
Congratulations to the engineers at IBM, who have taken the USA to the top of the Top 500 list of supercomputers around the world.
The top 3 reasons you should visit Vicor at the AUVSI tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada from August 6 through August 9: