Infineon introduces the industry’s first wide voltage range hot-swap controller with a programmable digital SOA control for data centers

Continued demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) services in High-Performance Computing (HPC)data centers is driving the market growth in this segment. Special-purpose AI accelerators facilitate a significant increase in the performance and efficiencyof these data centers. Like in many critical infrastructure systems, reliability and highavailability are essentialand highly challenging. Developers of AI supercomputing platforms can only address these requirements with hot-swap solutions that monitor the power supply and protect the system even when components are hot-swapped. Infineon Technologies AG tackles these challenges by introducing theXDP XDP710 digital controller, the first member of its intelligent hot-swap controller and protection IC family.The hot-swap and system monitoring controller IC has a 5.5Vto80V input voltage range with transients up to 100V for 500 ms. It consists of three functional blocks. The first is the high-precision telemetry and digital safe operating area (SOA)control block, optimized to meet Infineon’s power MOSFETs characteristics. The second is thesystem resources and management block, and the third is theintegrated gate driver and charge pump block for n-channel power MOSFETs such as OptiMOS and StrongIRFET families. “Infineon Technologies’ XDP710 Digital hot-swap controller met HGX Platform product requirement well. Like its unique fe...