Product category:
Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Fairchild Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 August 2007
Power design centre focuses automotive
expertise
Michigan centre enables Fairchild engineers to work directly with automotive customers to design and optimise the next generation of power management and control solutions.
Fairchild Semiconductor has expanded its Global Power Resource Centre with the addition of a facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan This new centre - near the heart of the North American automotive market - responds to increasing demand for functional power solutions, including multi-die modules, for automotive power applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The centre is staffed by seasoned electrical engineers with extensive design experience and a thorough understanding of the application requirements for today's automotive designs.
The engineering staff has over 60 years of combined automotive product development experience.
"The growth of automotive power electronics and the higher growth rates for body electronics and emerging systems are driving the need for innovative functional power products as well as expertise in system-level understanding to optimise designs", says Paul Leonard, Vice President of Automotive Products.
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"Our new Michigan Global Power Resource Centre provides customers with technical experts who can help them select or develop the right solutions for their designs".
Fairchild's capabilities in advanced process and packaging technologies as well as its ability to integrate power analogue, power discrete and optoelectronic functionality into innovative packaging, enable it to develop energy efficient solutions that continue to provide exceptional value in the automotive electronics market.
Fairchild offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of products, from 1 to more than 1200W, to maximise energy efficiency in today's automotive electronic applications such as power management, body control, motor control, ignition and engine management, and electric and hybrid electric vehicle systems.
The Michigan centre enables Fairchild engineers to work directly with customers to design and optimise the next generation of power management and control solutions.
Fairchild has 12 other Global Power Resource Centres located in Europe, Korea, Taiwan, China and the Americas.
These centres are part of the company's Global Power Resource initiative, offering not only system power design but also online design tools, evaluation boards, tutorials and joint research and development labs.
To enhance and broaden support for its customers, Fairchild has integrated these resources on its website with design, selection and educational tools for customers to access and optimise designs in real time.
The goal of the Global Power Resource is to solve manufacturers' design challenges while helping them speed their product's time to market.
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