Date: 23/06/2009

TI gets the license for Power-One's digital power technology patents

Texas Instruments has got into an agreement with Power-One to license Power-One's digital power technology patents. TI says this agreement will benefit OEMs that use TI's point-of-load controllers and modules except for manufacturers of merchant power supplies.

This agreement will give the TI's PMBus based products a boost. The open standard digital power communications interface called PMBus standard specification, developed by a consortium of 40 power supply, telecommunications equipment and semiconductor providers, defines a digital communication protocol that enables power converters to be configured, monitored and maintained according to a set of more than 100 commands.

For more details on Power-One visit www.power-one.com
Texas Instruments digital power products website is www.ti.com/digitalpower-pr.