Altera demonstrates power and industrial solutions at APEC 2016

San Jose, CA. Altera, now a part of Intel Corp., is demonstrating a portfolio of power and industrial solutions at the Applied Power and Electronics Conference (APEC 2016) being held through March 24 in Long Beach, CA. Altera will demonstrate how its field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and Enpirion power-management solutions enable electronic systems designers to achieve new levels of power performance and efficiency while minimizing design efforts, reducing cost, and lowering risk of delays to design schedules.

Altera is presenting these in-booth demonstrations:

Battery Management System (BMS) for stationary grid-tie storage. In an advancement that targets better battery management in electric power grids, Altera is demonstrating a battery management system (BMS) for grid-tie storage. It uses MAX 10 FPGA-based state of charge (SOC) estimation and a dual-extended Kalman filtering algorithm to achieve a small footprint, low latency, and single-precision floating point.
Streaming video solution with MIPI CSI-2 9, and Passive D-PHY, a specification of the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance. From embedded vision to driver monitoring systems, to human machine interfaces, vendors can achieve streaming video with MIPI CSI-2 and Passive D-PHY in a highly flexible, yet low-power and dense footprint, with the MAX 10 and Enpirion Power Solution.
The EN6362QI 6-A PowerSoC. With its small footprint and efficient performance, the Altera Enpirion EN6362QI PowerSoC offers a power density of 56 W/cm² with a total solution of just 170 mm², which is 45% smaller than other power modules and 75% smaller than most competing discrete (non-integrated) implementations.

In addition, Altera power experts at will be sharing the following research:

“A High Accuracy and High Bandwidth Current Sense Circuit for Digitally Controlled DC-DC Buck Converters,” written by D. Stack (Altera), A. Kelly (Altera), and T. Conway (UL), Thursday March 24, Track 8, 8:30 am-11:20 am.
“Off-Line Identification of Digitally Controlled Power Converters Using Analog Frequency Response Analyzer,” by M. Meola (ZMDI/IDT), A. Kelly (Altera), Thursday March 24, Track 7, 8:30 am-11:20 am.

Altera’s Enpirion® power solutions are efficient power management products featuring small size, leading-edge silicon and magnetics design, advanced packaging, and fully validated designs.