Ericsson Power Modules has been granted a license on a patent portfolio for DPT (digital power technology) from Power-One. The non-exclusive license agreement provides Ericsson Power Modules with access to Power-One's portfolio of DPT patents for incorporation in Ericsson Power Modules' 3E digitally controlled point-of-load devices.
Digital power management enables OEM's and data centres, including websites, to run more efficiently. The use of digital control technology can reduce cost while increasing performance. Through this collaboration with Power-One, Ericsson Power Modules will secure rapid deployment of 3E, a digital board-mounted technology. 3E, standing for enhanced performance, energy management, and end-user value, offers new opportunities for board-mounted power solutions and savings in the design, production and operation of systems using distributed power architecture dynamically controlled.
By partnering with Ericsson Power Modules, Power-One will expand the use of DPT to board mounted power supplies. These technologies reduce energy consumption and increase the customer's ROI (return on investment).
The internal design of Ericsson Power Modules' 3E POL regulators uses digital power control techniques, and some of the optional user implementations of these products can benefit from system level digital power and energy management approaches. These products can be beneficial for customers to have access, through a PMBus interface, to critical information such as load condition, temperature, voltage and current delivered, and other parameters, making it possible to monitor the distributed energy down to processor level. The addition of Power-One's digital power technology patents to the existing and future products will extend possibilities for customers to a range of operation and to fully program and monitor single, or an array of digitally controlled POL devices with functions such as sequencing, voltage setting and dynamic commands to shift-loads.
