The Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), held February 25 to March 1, 2007 in Anaheim, Calif., saw a number of innovations in the power industry. In the following two videos, Electronic Design Analog/Power Editor Don Tuite talks about two of the most significant trends that were revealed at the conference: the extension of PMBus from, a mere chip-to-chip protocol to something that allows interaction for diagnostics and control between server software and the power supplies that make server blades work, and hardware availability for DrMOS power-regulator modules that will power for all future PCs and laptops with Intel chips.
In this video, Electronic Design Analog/Power Editor Don Tuite talks with Dave Freeman, Texas Instruments engineering manager in system power products, about Release 1.1 of the PMBus Standard, which validates PMBus for communication between systems and power supplies.
In this video, Electronic Design Analog/Power Editor Don Tuite talks with Fairchild Semiconductor’s Mike Speed about DrMOS implementation of Intel’s new packaging standard for voltage regulation of CPU chips. Implementation allows power transistors to be integrated into a very small module along with the power controller, shrinks board space required for chip power, and increases efficiency.
