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Product category: DC/DC Convertors
News Release from: Datel (UK) | Subject: LEN series
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 August 2003

High-current POL convertors support IBA

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Nonisolated, point-of-load convertors boast 85-96% efficiencies at competitive prices to help the intermediate bus architecture (IBA) gain respect.

The new intermediate bus architecture (IBA) clearly brings cost savings and performance improvements to multivoltage, high-current, onboard power systems An effective IBA implementation, however, requires using new bus convertors and POLs (point-of-load convertors) that probably have been on the market for less than a year

Many designers are reluctant to do that.

Therefore, the proliferation and widespread acceptance of the IBA have been slowed by the lack of affordable, multisourced, building blocks, and many power supply manufacturers are relu