The Auto-control and Plug-and-Power Advantages

At the heart of Powervation’s technology is Auto-control, an ingenious digital algorithm that enables a DC/DC control circuit to sense circuit conditions such as load, capacitance, inductance, etc., and automatically adapt the power-control function to compensate accurately. This stabilizes voltage conversion and transient response over a wide range of conditions.

Auto-control greatly simplifies what was once the time-consuming “black art” of designing analog compensation loops which were sub-optimal by necessity and designed for worst-case conditions.

The first product utilizing Auto-control is Powervation’s Plug-and-Power controller aimed at power converter solutions in Computing, NetComms, Storage and other applications. The product is an innovative digital signal processing-based power controller which delivers unprecedented flexibility, performance, ease-of-use, and potential energy savings across a broad range of power supply designs. Power management behavior can be configured by a simple resistor programming or via the industry-standard serial interface (SMBus™). Design-in takes minutes instead of days.