DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 17, 2009--
Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ:DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and
supplier of application specific standard products within the broad
discrete and analog semiconductor markets, today announced an active
OR’ing controller chip, enabling shared power system designers to
replace heat-dissipating blocking diodes with high efficiency MOSFETs.
The ZXGD3102 ensures cool running, low maintenance and high reliability
operation in up-time critical telecom, server and mainframe applications.
The high heat dissipated by Schottky blocking diodes, traditionally used
to protect a load from faulty power supplies, relates directly to the
hefty 0.5V forward voltage drop. Replacing the diodes with low
on-resistance MOSFETs, which have typical forward voltages of under
100mV, means that power dissipation is greatly reduced. The ZXGD3102 is
specifically designed to control MOSFETs in high-reliability N+1
redundant power systems.
Sinking a peak turn-off current of 5A, the controller’s gate drive is
able to achieve a typical MOSFET turn-off time of 160ns, ensuring the
rapid load protection that is needed to avoid any variation in bus
voltage in the event of a power supply failure and hot-swapping. To meet
the fault handling requirements, turn-on time can be adjusted to enable
a smooth handover between supplies. The ZXGD3102’s input voltage
blocking capability is 180V.
The ZXGD3102 is housed in the compact SM8 package and requires a minimal
external component count. The ZXGD3102 uses a 5 to 15V low-current bias
rail, which is easily derived using a miniature zener diode.
About Diodes Incorporated
Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ: DIOD), an S&P SmallCap 600 and Russell 3000
Index company, is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of
high-quality application specific standard products within the broad
discrete and analog semiconductor markets, serving the consumer
electronics, computing, communications, industrial and automotive
markets. Diodes' products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors,
MOSFETs, protection devices, functional specific arrays, amplifiers and
comparators, Hall-effect sensors and temperature sensors, power
management devices including LED drivers, DC-DC switching regulators,
linear voltage regulators and voltage references along with special
function devices including USB power switch, load switch, voltage
supervisor and motor controllers. The Company’s corporate headquarters
are located in Dallas, Texas. A sales, marketing, engineering and
logistics office is located in Westlake Village, California. Design
centers are located in Dallas; San Jose, California; Taipei, Taiwan;
Manchester, England and Neuhaus, Germany. The Company’s wafer
fabrication facilities are located in Kansas City, Missouri and
Manchester; with two manufacturing facilities located in Shanghai,
China, another in Neuhaus, and a joint venture facility located in
Chengdu, China. Additional engineering, sales, warehouse and logistics
offices are located in Taipei; Hong Kong; Manchester and Munich,
Germany, with support offices located throughout the world. For further
information, including SEC filings, visit the Company's website at http://www.diodes.com.
Source: Diodes Incorporated
Diodes Incorporated
Mike Townson, Bipolar Transistor Marketing
Manager
+44 (0) 161 622 4456
Mike_Townson@eu.diodes.com
or
Shelton
Group
Leanne K. Sievers, Investor Relations
949-224-3874
lsievers@sheltongroup.com
