Product category: DC/DC Convertors
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 June 2003
Trio to collaborate
on point-of-load designs
Artesyn, Astec Power and TI have formed a point of load alliance to offer customers pin-compatible power supply footprints that provide the same functionality and form factors
Artesyn North America and Astec America have both signed second-source licensing agreements with Texas Instruments to standardise leading technology for high performance power convertors, ensuring interoperability and customer design flexibility. These agreements promote pin-compatible, advanced nonisolated, point-of-load plug-in power modules for wireless infrastructure, optical switching, networking, storage and industrial systems that use DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs and microprocessors.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 June 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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With these agreements, Artesyn, Astec Power and TI form a point of load alliance (POLA), which offers customers pin-compatible footprints that provide the same functionality and form factors.
All three companies will manufacture products with the same electrical designs that ensure interoperability and true second sourcing.
The first generation of these products, the PTHxx series with Auto-Track sequencing, was recently introduced by TI.
Artesyn and Astec Power plan to introduce their own versions of this product in the third quarter of 2003.
'As industry demand increases for a standard footprint and multiple sources for advanced point of load power solutions, this agreement with TI gives our customers what they desire', said Todd Hendrix, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Artesyn.
'We are excited about the customer benefits and the potential growth that will occur in the point of load market'.
'By combining our complementary strengths, Astec Power, Artesyn and TI are uniquely positioned to stimulate the rapid growth of this market by offering pin-compatible modules', said Mark Rice, Vice President of Worldwide DC/DC Sales and Marketing for Astec Power.
'This alliance signifies a new commitment among rivals in the power industry to offer flexibility for our customers'.
'Power supply designers want easy to choose, easy to use plug-in power modules, and having a viable second source in place makes the choice even easier', said Steve Anderson, Business Director of TI's Plug-In Power Products Group.
'TI's alliances with Artesyn and Astec Power form a solid foundation toward standardising current and future generations of advanced non-isolated point of load products with greater levels of performance and innovative features'.
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