Products of the Week: March 25, 2024

March 25, 2024

Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.

The XDP700-002 serves a variety of telecom applications like remote radio head power, base station power distribution, active and passive antenna systems, 5G small cell power, and telecom UPS systems.

Hot-Swap Controller Addresses Telecom Infrastructure Protection

Infineon Technologies expanded its XDP digital power protection controller product series with the XDP700-002 -48-V wide-input-voltage digital hot-swap controller featuring programmable safe operating area (SOA) control for telecom infrastructure. Presented as the first of its type, it provides a current-reporting accuracy under ±0.7%, with boost-mode control technology for safer turn-on of FETs in systems with non-optimal SOA. Addressing a variety of telecom applications, the XDP700-002 uses a three-block architecture combining precision telemetry for monitoring and fault detection, digital SOA control, and integrated gate drivers for N-channel power MOSFETs.

WIth an input from -6.5 to -80 V, the XDP700-002 can handle transients up to -100 V for 500 ms, providing current telemetry at 0.7% accuracy, and voltage at 0.5%. Its PMBus-compliant active monitoring increases system reliability, with a programmable gate shutdown for severe overcurrent within 1 µs.

The XDP700-002 offers flexibility for programming faults and warnings detection along with de-glitch levels for various use models. Features include options for external FET selection and a one-time programmable option, with an analog-assisted digital mode for backward compatibility with legacy controllers.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.