Electronic Design's 2021 PowerBest Awards

Jan. 5, 2022

This year's PowerBest selections recognize electronic power products that help engineers create winning designs and celebrate the people who helped make them possible, despite (another) incredibly challenging year.

Lee Goldberg

Related To: Electronic Design

Empower's Integrated Voltage Regulator Achieves Fastest Transient Response

Featured in the April 15, 2021 edition of PowerBites, Empower Semiconductor's integrated voltage regulator (IVR) EP7010 demonstrated the world’s fastest transient response time for its class, moving through a load step of zero to 10 A in 500 ns with <15-mv droop. The EP70xx family displays peak efficiencies of up to 92% with a nearly flat efficiency curve through output currents of up to 10 A. The devices' rapid dynamic voltage scaling enables fast, lossless processor state changes that can save 30% or more of processor power.

Thanks to the EP7010’s tight voltage regulation, designers can lower their application's operating voltage range, thereby enabling an overall power savings of 10% or more, as well as the corresponding reduction in heat dissipation.

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I'd like to offer my heartfelt thanks to all the engineers, technicians, marketeers, and the other members of the global electronics community for making 2021 "a truly powerful year" in the face of so many challenges. Despite the lockdowns, supply-chain nightmares, and disruptions in your own lives, you continued to deliver a steady stream of innovative products and technologies that we'll need to create a bright, prosperous, and sustainable future.

It's been a privilege to chronicle your creations here at PowerBites, but it's been a daunting task to choose a small handful of them for special acknowledgement. It was difficult enough to select these "PowerBest" winners, but it was impossible to rank them in any meaningful way, so the order in which they’re presented is no indicator of relative merit.

With gratitude for all you've done, and best wishes for a better 2022!

Lee Goldberg, Contributing Editor, Electronic Design