Non-isolated digital point-of-load standard for 60A current range

The 'gigaAMP' standard, introduced to provide a higher current option in a Land-Grid Array (LGA) footprint, builds on the previously released 'picoAMP' standard, published in September 2015, which defined standards released for a lower range of non-isolated platforms ranging from 6 to 18A. The 60A 'gigaAMP' standard defines a compact footprint of 25.1x14.1mm in an LFA format.

The new 'gigaAMP' standard also adds to the previously released 'teraAMP' standard for non-isolated digital Point-Of-Load (POL) DC/DC converters, released in February 2015, and the 'microAMP' and 'megaAMP' standards released during electronica in November 2014. The first products to meet with this new 'gigaAMP' standard will be announced by AMP Group members later in the year.

"The 'gigaAMP' standard is a continuation of the AMP Group's efforts to establish industry standards that cover every aspect of board-level digital power technology," stated Martin Hägerdal, President of Ericsson Power Modules. "And the addition of this new standard at 60A helps to further address the growing demands on performance, complexity and flexibility in intelligent power supply infrastructures," added Steve Pimpis, President & CEO of Murata Power Solutions.

The Architects of Modern Power consortium formed in October 2014 is an alliance between CUI, Ericsson Power Modules and Murata with the objective of providing the most technically advanced, end-to-end solutions with a complete ecosystem of hardware, software and support. Whereas other power supply standards groups are only focused on the mechanical specifications of board mount power supplies, the AMP Group has realised that the standardisation of monitoring, control and communications functions, and the creaiton of common configuration files for plug-and-play interoperability will define the future of intelligent distributed power systems.