Products

Powervation’s products include a Digital Signal Processor, a RISC Processor and traditional analog blocks. The dual-core architecture enables a unique voltage regulator for applications that demand high stability and high efficiency. The products can be configured to provide 1- or 2-phase operation, and multiple controllers can be paralleled to provide load sharing.

Quality & Reliability

To ensure superior product and customer satisfaction, Powervation is committed to build world-class quality and reliability and operational excellence.

Quality Assurance Programs (QA / QC)

Powervation is an ISO9001:2008 certified company
Certified by NASI who also are the auditors for Dell and Intel
All Powervation products are RoHS and Green (Sony Green) compliant
In addition our subcontractors are certified to:

• ISO9001
• TS16949
• ISO14001
• OHSAS18001

We maintain strategic partnerships with the world’s largest providers of semiconductor manufacturing services in wafer fabrication, assembly and test.

• Alternate sourcing for key high-volume products without compromising cost effectiveness and quality
• Enables us to offer cost-effective, high-quality products and the flexibility our customers need.  Also allows us to maintain a strategy of continuous improvement
• “Guarantee of Supply” agreement in place with leading semiconductor player

Vendor & supplier Quality Management (VQM)

Supplier Quality Management ensures our products will be manufactured to the highest quality standards. We partner with suppliers to ensure continuous process improvements so that quality is always optimized and customer requirements exceeded.
This is achieved through:

• Ensuring that Powervation quality requirements are clearly communicated to key suppliers
• Monitoring key process/product performance indicators (KPI) for assembly & test to make sure key processes are in control
• Following up on key quality issues to ensure that suppliers provide adequate corrective and preventive actions.
• Managing releases of change notifications (ECN) between Powervation & suppliers, and ensuring implementation of the changes

Customer Quality Management

Customer Quality Management ensures that our products strictly adhere to customers’ unique specifications.
This is achieved through:

• Review and understanding of individual requirements including requirements review and data reporting
• Robust and speedy RMA process, including 24 hour response
• The use of suppliers and a certified independent failure analysis laboratory with years of experience in supporting fabless companies in this area.

Lead (Pb) Free and Green Compliance

Powervation is committed to environment, health and safety excellence.  We aim to meet or exceed our customers and governmental regulatory requirements with respect to the use of hazardous substances by producing products that comply with the following regulations:

• Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
• Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).
• Reach: Registration Evaluation Authorization and restriction – on the use of Chemicals.

Lead (Pb) Free and RoHS Compliance Statement

Powervation's integrated circuit products are lead-free and RoHS compliant, and meet all regulatory thresholds.

Product Qualification Methodology

Every Powervation product is qualified using the following tests at a minimum:

• Pre-condition at MSL-1
• Humidity testing
• Autoclave (ACTV)
• HAST or Temperature Humidity Bias (THB)
• HTOL (High Temperature Operating Life)
• HTSL (High Temperature Storage Life)
• Temperature Cycle (TMCL)
• ESD
• Latch-up

Reliability Tests

• Temp cycle
• HAST
• HTOL/HTSL
• Temp/humidity
• Reflow oven
• Burn-in test
• ESD (HBM, MM, CDM)
• Latch-up

Failure Analysis

• X-section
• T-SCAN , C-SAM
• Low Power/High Power (500x) surface inspection
• Chemical de-capping by jet etcher
• Basic open/short verification by curve tracer
• X-ray internal inspection
• EDX/SEM (electronic microscope)
• FIB
• Delayering (all layers)

Specific Reliability Tests Example on Powervation Products

All products are qualified and tested using recognized industry standards such as JEDEC. Powervation has empowered an external independent F/A Lab to perform Reliability and F/A independently of the supply chain.

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