[March 11, 2019] |
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Renesas Electronics Showcases Intelligent Power Solutions at APEC 2019
As markets become more energy conscious and connected within the
Internet of Things (IoT), designing for power becomes more challenging.
Today, Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of
advanced semiconductor solutions, announced it will showcase its growing
portfolio of intelligent, secure, and cloud-connected power solutions in
booth #347 at the Applied
Power Electronics Conference (APEC), in Anaheim, Calif., March
18-20, 2019.
At APEC, Renesas will highlight state-of-the-art solutions and
techniques that address evolving power management, performance, and
time-to-market needs for several industries, including industrial, IoT
cloud infrastructure and endpoint devices, home appliances, and small
satellite mega-constellations.
Solution Demonstrations
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Energy Harvesting with
Silicon-on-Thin-Buried-Oxide (SOTB™) Technology: The SOTB
agriculture soil monitoring proof of concept will demonstrate the use
of Renesas' unique integrated solution to manage harvested energy at
the microcontroller (MCU) level by leveraging ambient energy sources
such as wind, light, vibration and flow. Featuring the ultra-low power
SOTB R7F0E embedded controller and ultra-low IQ DC-DC converter
products, the solution allows energy harvesting technologies to drive
sensor networks in environments that require battery-free sensors or
sensors that function for long periods without battery replacements.
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Advanced Power Management for Industrial,
Server, and Battery-Operated Applications
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Based on state-of-the-art digital control and power management
solutions, including the industry's first true bidirectional
buck-boost controllers, the bidirectional charging demo will
highlight efficient charging and discharging of a supercapacitor
power bank with on-the-fly direction change.
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Renesas will also demonstrate high-density, high-efficiency PMBus
power module solutions for servers, telecom, data communications,
and other space-constrained, battery-operated applications.
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Motor Control for High-Power/Low-Power
Applications
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Home appliance design is shifting from taditional power-hungry AC
motors to power-efficient BLDC motors as battery-powered
appliances continue to cut the cord. The 36V 500W BLDC reference
design used in the vacuum cleaner demo will illustrate how
energy-conscious motor control solutions and high-capacity
batteries can drive high-power home appliances at one-third the
power levels compared to AC motor-based designs (500W vs 1440W).
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Renesas will also demonstrate motor control solutions for robotics
applications that require BLDC motor control up to +/- 600 mA of
rated current with high-efficiency speed and precise monitoring
control similar to a step motor.
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Secure Cloud-Connectivity for Smart Meters
Solution: Across industries, the flexibility to make secure
wireless connections to the cloud becomes increasingly important as
more devices become cloud enabled. Renesas will demonstrate how to
quickly, easily, and securely connect power meters wirelessly to a
cloud service provider of choice with a small form-factor RL78/I1B
MCU-based power meter board connected to the Renesas IoT Sandbox. The
Renesas power metering platform allows for both revenue- and
non-revenue metering applications, including both ANSI and IEC (News - Alert)
revenue-metering form factors, as well as reduced foot-print
non-revenue metering installs for appliances, HVAC, and other
point-of-measurement applications.
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GaN Power Supply for Small Satellite
Mega-Constellations: Renesas will demonstrate its expanding
radiation-hardened (rad-hard) GaN portfolio for the "New Space"
industry. Two power design demos are shown, including a 100V GaN
half-bridge power stage reference design featuring a rad-hard, low
side GaN FET driver, 200V GaN FET and rad-tolerant digital isolators.
A second demo shows a 28V GaN flyback converter reference design
featuring a rad-tolerant PWM controller and low side GaN driver. Both
designs are commonly used in satellite bus power conditioning &
distribution systems, and for intermediate bus voltage regulation and
power distribution systems in satellite payloads.
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Multiphase PMIC Advantage for IoT
Infrastructure, Industrial Control: Renesas will
demonstrate a high performance and high-efficiency multiphase PMIC
powering FPGA supply rails on a small footprint FPGA accelerator
board. Renesas' multiphase PMIC achieves 94-percent peak efficiency in
a 70mm2 solution size with ultra-fast single-cycle load
transient response for a broad range of data center, industrial
control, test equipment, and consumer applications.
For more information about Renesas, follow Renesas Electronics America
at @RenesasAmerica on Twitter (News - Alert) and https://www.facebook.com/RenesasElectronics/.
About Renesas Electronics Corporation
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:
6723) delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete
semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent
devices to enhance the way people work and live. A global
leader in microcontrollers, analog, power, and SoC products, Renesas
provides comprehensive solutions for a broad range of automotive,
industrial, home electronics, office automation, and information
communication technology applications that help shape a limitless
future. Learn more at renesas.com.
(Remarks) SOTB is a trademark of Renesas Electronics Corporation. All
other registered trademarks or trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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