DC/DC controllers for high efficiency computing systems

Powervation has launched series of digital DC/DC controllers. The PV3103, PV3104, and PV3202 devices feature single and dual phase outputs and support PMBus, as well as Intel's VR12.5 Serial VID (SVID) bus.

The programmable digital controllers are said to provide precision regulation and telemetry to support the latest high efficiency computing system designs.

The PV3202 is a VR12.5 dual phase digital controller which provides transient performance and real time adaptive loop compensation.The PV3104, a single phase controller supplied in a 5 x 5mm QFN, is footprint compatible with the PV3202. Completing the family of SVID controllers is the PV3103, a digital synchronous buck controller in a 4 x 4mm QFN and suited to high density or compact designs.

Powervation's Auto-Control adaptive compensation feature is said to deliver faster transient performance and to simplify the design process and time-to-market. Its non volatile memory and RAM architecture allows designers to configure and store regulator parameters.

The controllers are designed to deliver optimised performance and to interface with most MOSFET driver and DrMOS solutions, to power DDR4 memory and other Intel SVID and PMBus loads.