Infineon launches new high-performance FPGA power development platform

Munich, Germany, March 23, 2016 - Infineon Technologies AG (FSE:IFX/OTCQX:IFN-NY) recently released a power supply development board adapted to Kintex® UltraScale™. The development board is equipped with Infineon's fully functional digital point-of-load (PoL) DC-DC regulator IR3806x product with PMBus. A key enabler for the board's design flexibility is the excellent PMBus capabilities of the IR3806x series and the fact that circuit design-related configurations can be stored in the product family's internal memory. In addition, PMBus instructions support real-time control, fault status monitoring and parameter telemetry.

Great flexibility

The on-chip programmable SupIRBuck™ voltage regulator brings great flexibility to FPGA-based designs. Thus, it easily adapts to rapidly changing design requirements. The IR3806x SupIRBuck voltage regulator integrates a PWM controller and MOSFET in a single package. It occupies very little space, and the power efficiency of each channel is higher than 90%, and the peak-to-peak ripple is less than 10mV in the full current range of 3-35 A. The regulator supports a high level of system power management and is extremely rugged.

Despite its compact design, the IR3806 product family is a fully integrated PoL regulator with advanced power management programmability, margining, sequencing and multi-output telemetry via PMBus 1.2. The development board contains all the features to support embedded processing systems. This allows designers to easily design and verify applications.

Xilinx Bit Error Rate Test (BERT) reveals bit errors through rigorous code testing. It uses a series of worst-case bit patterns of a serial transceiver/receiver. The IR3806x series exhibits extremely high power performance: zero error test results show that no jitter noise is introduced in any mode.

About Infineon

Infineon Technologies AG is the world's leading semiconductor technology company. We make people's lives more convenient, safer and environmentally friendly. Infineon's microelectronic products and solutions will lead you to a bright future. In the 2015 fiscal year (ending September 30), the company had sales of 5.8 billion euros and approximately 35,400 employees worldwide. Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (stock code: IFX) and the U.S. over-the-counter market OTCQX International Premier (stock code: IFNNY).

Infineon in China

Infineon Technologies AG officially entered the Chinese market in 1995. Since the establishment of the first company in Wuxi in October 1995, Infineon's business has achieved very rapid growth. It has approximately 2,000 employees in China and has become an important driving force for Infineon's Asia-Pacific and even global business development. Infineon has established a complete industrial chain in China covering R&D, production, sales, marketing, technical support, etc., and has carried out in-depth cooperation with leading domestic enterprises and universities in sales, technology R&D, talent training, etc.