Infineon introduces the industry's first wide voltage range hot-swap controller with a programmable digital SOA control for data centers
November 15, 2022 at 08:16 am EST
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Munich - Continued demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) services in High-Performance Computing (HPC) data centers is driving the market growth in this segment.
Special-purpose AI accelerators facilitate a significant increase in the performance and efficiency of these data centers. Like in many critical infrastructure systems, reliability and high availability are essential and highly challenging. Developers of AI supercomputing platforms can only address these requirements with hot-swap solutions that monitor the power supply and protect the system even when components are hot-swapped.
Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) tackles these challenges by introducing the XDP XDP710 digital controller, the first member of its intelligent hot-swap controller and protection IC family. The hot-swap and system monitoring controller IC has a 5.5 V to 80 V input voltage range with transients up to 100 V for 500 ms. It consists of three functional blocks. The first is the high-precision telemetry and digital safe operating area (SOA) control block, optimized to meet Infineon's power MOSFETs characteristics. The second is the system resources and management block, and the third is the integrated gate driver and charge pump block for n-channel power MOSFETs such as OptiMOS and StrongIRFET families.
'Infineon Technologies' XDP710 Digital hot-swap controller met HGX Platform product requirement well. Like its unique features such as option of external FET selection using resistor strapping and boost mode. It helps that XDP710 come in small package, easy to design in' said Abhijit Datta, Sr. Power Architect and Subject Matter Expert at NVIDIA
'The XDP710 hot-swap controller is a feature-rich device with high-precision analog-front-end along with comprehensive health monitoring, telemetry, programmability, and pre-set MOSFET SOA. It addresses the challenges associated with the current design of pluggable AI server solutions,' said Shahram Mehraban, Vice President Power Management ICs at Infineon's Power & Sensor Systems Division.
The key feature of the XDP710 controller is its advanced closed-loop SOA control and the fully digital operating mode. This leads to a lower bill-of-material (BOM) reducing the number of external components and design time, allowing faster time-to-market. The XDP XDP710 can also operate in Analog-Assisted Digital Mode to support legacy systems.
Availability
The XDP XDP710 digital hot-swap and system monitoring controller IC is in production and available in a 29-lead (6 x 6 mm-2) VQFN package.
Infineon Technologies AG is one of the world's leading manufacturers of semiconductors. The group's products include power semiconductors, sensors, microcontrollers, digital, mixed-signal and analog ICs, discrete semiconductor modules, switches, interface ICs, motor-controlling ICs, RF power transistors, voltage regulators, and electronic safety components. Net sales break down by area of activity as follows:
- automotive (50.5%): semiconductor products used in the automotive industry, and memory products for specific applications for automotive, industrial, information technologies, telecommunications and consumer electronics.
- power & sensor systems (23.3%): semiconductors for energy-efficient power supplies, mobile devices, mobile phone network infrastructures, human-machine interaction as well as applications with special demands on their robustness and reliability.
- industrial power control (13.5%): semiconductor products for the conversion of electrical energy for small, medium and high-power applications, used in the manufacturing, the low-loss transmission, the storage and the efficient use of electrical energy;
- connected secure systems (12.6%): semiconductors for networked devices, card-based applications, and government documents; microcontrollers for industrial, entertainment, and household applications, components for connectivity systems, various customer support systems;
- other (0.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (12.4%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (14.4%), China/Hong Kong/Taiwan (32.3%), Japan (10.5%), Asia/Pacific (15.9%), the United States (12.1%) and Americas (2.4%).