Artesyn Announces Industry's First PMBus-Compliant Digitally Programmable DC/DC Converter
September 13 2005 - 11:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
Programmable 20 A Converter Uses Open Standard Communications
Protocol BOSTON, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Artesyn
Technologies (NASDAQ:ATSN) today announced its first digital
point-of-load (POL) converter at the Digital Power Forum '05 in
Boston, Massachusetts. The DPL20C is a non- isolated POL converter
in the new family of PMBus-compliant DC/DC converters. Sampling of
the product along with evaluation boards to the first Beta
customers has now begun; general availability and production will
commence upon completion of Beta trials, expected within the next
45 days. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050117/FLMLOGO ) Artesyn CEO
Joseph O'Donnell, and Trey Burns, Vice President of Technology and
DC/DC Product Development, will give a presentation including
Artesyn's perspective on digital power, at noon on September 15,
2005. The presentation will be webcast live at
http://www.artesyn.com/ under Investor Relations and broadcast via
telephone. The dial-in number is 800-633-8634. A replay will be
available on Artesyn's website for 30 days. The PMBus open-standard
digital power management protocol is supported by the special
interest group (SIG) known as the System Management Interface
Forum, Inc., charged with further developing, enabling and
promoting the PMBus(TM) power operating system. Earlier in the year
the PMBus protocol was endorsed by both of the industry's major
power supply alliances, the Point-of- Load Alliance (POLA) and
Distributed-power Open Standards Alliance (DOSA). While the
protocol is in the public domain, there are already more than a
dozen power supply and semiconductor companies that have formally
adopted the protocol and continue to collaborate on further
development and promotion of the specification. The DPL20C is a 20
Amp output converter which features an extensive set of digital
configuration, monitoring and diagnostic facilities accessible via
the PMBus interface. The converter stores all configuration and
set-up data in non-volatile memory, and powers-up with these
pre-programmed default settings, thus eliminating the need for
external power controllers. Intended for computing, storage and
networking applications, the DPL20C is rated for forced air
environments with ambient operating temperatures of 0 degrees
Celsius to +70 degrees Celsius seen in the latest 1U high rack
mounting equipment. Functionality includes the following: *
Wide-input range from 4.5 to 13.8V * Programmable output voltage
from 0.6 to 5.5V * Programmable sequencing, tracking and margining
* Real-time monitoring of voltage, current, and temperature, with
automatic warning of fault conditions * Ability to source/sink 20A
of load current, along with differential remote sensing * Library
of 45 executable PMBus commands * Windows-based GUI supporting a
variety of PC interfaces The DPL20C is the first PMBus-compliant
DC/DC converter to be announced by the industry. According to Todd
Hendrix, VP of Worldwide Marketing & Business Development for
Artesyn Technologies, "Artesyn is a longstanding advocate of open
architecture systems, which help customers reduce time to market
and streamline life-cycle product costs. The PMBus protocol is
quickly becoming the industry standard for digital power
management. The DPL20C, which is currently undergoing evaluation on
a number of customer Beta sites, is the first of many
PMBus-compliant power conversion products that Artesyn will be
introducing. Future products will encompass different current
ratings and mechanical form factors, as well as feature
increasingly higher levels of digital control and integration."
Artesyn's DPL20C PMBus-compliant digitally programmable POL
converters are currently undergoing evaluation with key customers,
and the general market release will be in October. To obtain
further information, please visit:
http://www.artesyn.com/powergroup/new_digitalpol_launch.htm . About
Artesyn Technologies, Inc. Artesyn Technologies, Inc.,
headquartered in Boca Raton, FL., is a world leader in the design,
manufacture and sale of power conversion and embedded board
solutions for infrastructure applications in server and storage,
wireless and telecommunications systems. Our products are used in
middle to high-end servers, data storage devices, routers, hubs,
high-speed modems, RF amplification systems, base station
controllers and transceivers. The company has a global sales reach
with design and manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe and North
America. Artesyn is a public company whose common stock is traded
on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol ATSN. For more
information, please visit the company's web site at
http://www.artesyn.com/ . PMBus is a trademark of the System
Management Interface Forum, Inc. Windows is a trademark of
Microsoft Corporation.
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CONTACT: Pamela Rembaum, Director of Investor Relations,
+1-561-451-1028, or Mike Stefani, Director of Product Marketing,
+1-508-424-2774, both of Artesyn Web site: http://www.artesyn.com/
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