About Vicor Corporation
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Vicor provides power conversion solutions to enhance customers' competitive advantage by offering a broad range of high-efficiency power architectures. The company focuses on addressing challenges such as increasing power demands and system complexity while delivering world-leading power density and efficiency. Their comprehensive and flexible portfolio includes both standard and custom power solutions tailored to various performance-critical applications.
About Vicor Corporation
- 1. About Vicor 1
- 2. Vicor’s Value = Customers’ Competitive Advantage › At Vicor, we enable customers to efficiently convert and manage power from the wall plug to point-of-load. › We master the entire power chain with the most comprehensive portfolio of high efficiency, high-density, power distribution architectures addressing a broad range performance-critical applications. › Vicor’s holistic approach gives power system architects the flexibility to choose from modular, plug-and-play components ranging from bricks to semiconductor- centric solutions. Density › By integrating our world-class manufacturing and applications development, we can quickly customize our power components to meet your Customer unique power system needs. Competitive Advantage Efficiency Flexibility 2
- 3. Focus Performance-Centric Markets / Applications Communication Computing Industrial Automotive Defense Aerospace • › Wireless & Satellite › Enterprise Servers › ATE › Hybrid Vehicles › Aircraft Test Equipment Base Stations › Aftermarket Retrofit › Reconnaissance / Targeting › Optical Switchers › Process Control › Broadcast Equipment Systems › Data Storage Systems › Energy › Power Amplifiers › Radio / Telemetry Systems › Network Servers › Lighting › Microwave › Secure Communications › Super Computers › Transportation / Systems Communication Railroad › Remote Telemetry › Ground Vehicles › Factory Automation Communication 3
- 4. The Challenges Behind Power Demand for Efficiency System Complexity Increasing Power Requirements › Density (physical space & heat › Cooling issues limitations) › Heat limitations › Multiple AC mains WW (120 V / 240 V) › Higher power point of loads (POL) › Multiple DC input voltages › Green objectives › Multiple battery technologies › Energy Star ratings – gold, platinum › EMC / EMI / RFI filtering requirements › Heat limitations (reliability MTBF) Time to Market › Smaller engineering teams › Global competition › Technology evolving changing specifications › Product fragmentation “families” › Comprehensive design tools and real time application support required 4
- 5. Density › World-leading power conversion density – 350 V to 44 V at 1,000 W/in3 – 48 V to 1.2 V at 130 A/in3 › Enabling customer’s competitive advantage – More TeraFLOPS – More Gigabits / s – More ports / rack – More tested devices / hr – Smaller size – Lighter weight 5
- 6. Efficiency › World-leading intermediate bus conversion efficiency – 98.2%, ¼ Brick peak efficiency – 98%, 1/8 Brick peak efficiency › Up to 50% less power dissipation – Savings in power consumption and cooling › Enables high power delivery in challenging thermal environments › Simplifies thermal management 6
- 7. Flexibility › High Performance Power › Standard to Semi-custom › Silicon Power Solutions Solutions Solutions – IC and SiP based products – Factorized power using PRM / – 100,000+ variants – Picor QuietPower® Universal VTM modules – 50 W to over 600 W designs EMI Active Filters – 18 V to 75 V input / – Picor Cool-Power® complete 0.15 V to 55 V isolated DC-DC solutions – 100 W to over 600 W designs – Power Path Management › Picor Cool-Swap® Hot-Swap › Vicor Custom Solutions › Picor Cool-ORing® Active ORing – Full customer configurations › Picor Cool-Switch® Hot-Swap / Load Switch – 1 kW to over 10 kW designs › Picor µRDS(ON)FET® Load Switch 7
- 8. Portfolio Growth Over Time VI Brick IBC Cool- Power 30,000,000 Components Sold Active ORing 30,000 Applications Delivered VI Bricks MIL-COTS VI Chips VI Chips in blue-chip Apps QPI Factorized Hot-Swap Power Architecture (VI Chips) 1/4-brick 150 W Half-brick 300 W Full-brick 600 W First First half-brick full-brick 100 W 8