ZMDI and Murata Power Solutions launch true-digital POL solutions.

DRESDEN, GERMANY: ZMDI, a semiconductor company that specializes in enabling energy-efficient solutions, and Murata Power Solutions, the world's leading supplier of board mount power, announced the product release of a true-digital POL solution.

ZMDI's ZSPM1025 single-phase digital PWM controller family ICs for non-isolated DC/DC supplies, combined with Murata Power

Solution's single-phase 25A surface-mount power block, provide a quick route to proven, high-performance smart digital power solutions.

ZMDI's easy-to-use software enables the user to fully customize these solutions for optional digital communications via PMBus, output voltage range and output load. The digital control loop and compensators are preconfigured in the new ZSPM1025 family devices. A downloadable complete construction kit is available, including a graphical user interface, layout guidelines and step-by-step instructions. It is ready to be immediately implemented in the application design.

Three smart digital power solutions with output currents up to 25A are now available. ZMDI plans to extend this family of single-phase, true-digital POL controllers for Murata Power Solution's single-phase surface-mount power blocks with higher output current capabilities later this year and in early 2014.

The ZSPM1025 solutions that are available now and customized for the OKLP-X/25W12-C Murata Power Block include the following:

* ZSPM1025A featuring a PMBus programmable output voltage of 0.35V to 3.6V; four predefined, user-selectable output capacitance ranges; and configurable protection, sequencing and monitoring.

* ZSPM1025C featuring a pin-strap selectable output voltage of 0.6V to 1.2V and four predefined pin-strap selectable output capacitance ranges.

* ZSPM1025D featuring a pin-strap selectable output voltage of 1.2V to 3.4V and four predefined pin-strap selectable output capacitance ranges.