A leading global manufacturer of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and management solutions, Power-One (News 
- Alert), Inc. and Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG (ZMDI), an innovative provider of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, have entered into a non-exclusive, worldwide, Field of Use agreement for Digital Power Technology (DPT) patents from Power-One.
In a press release, Steve Hogge, president of power solutions at Power-One, said, “Power-One is pleased to license its Digital Power Technology to ZMDI, an emerging market leader in the power-management IC industry, for incorporation into its products. With the expanding number of leading power supply and semiconductor companies partnering with Power-One, we will continue to expand the market by providing energy-efficient technologies with increased functionality for our customers.”
The Digital Power Technology (DPT) enables telemetry capability, providing access to critical information including current, temperature and voltage and drives increased system efficiency, improved design flexibility, faster time to market, decreased footprint size and lower system costs. The telemetry helps the system to precisely monitor its power consumption and thermal performance, enabling designers to easily engineer key features such as system optimization, fault detection and predictive maintenance features into their end products.
Bernhard Huber, business-line manager for standard components at ZMDI, said, “Leveraging the DPT patents meshes with our goal of delivering energy-efficient solutions for point-of-load applications. We can focus on developing chipsets that address all output loading conditions based on ZMDI's performance goals.”
Power-One was recently in the news when it announced the introduction of its new AURORA ULTRA-1400 central inverter with an output power of up to 1.4M. This liquid-cooled inverter is the largest product in the Power-One RE offering and has been designed for large commercial and utility-grade installations. Industry-leading power conversion efficiencies of up to 98.7 percent, combined with an extra wide input voltage range and multiple MPPT channels, optimize energy harvesting across a wide array of operating conditions.
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