Empower’s New Ultra-low 1pH ESL Silicon Capacitor Tightens Voltage Regulation for AI Chips
06 Mayo 2024 - 8:13AM
Empower Semiconductor, the world leader in integrated voltage
regulators (IVRs), today unveiled the largest silicon capacitor in
its ECAP product family for high frequency decoupling. The new
EC1005P is a single 16.6-microfarad (μF) capacitance device
suitable for the most demanding power integrity targets as often
found in high-performance systems-on-chip (SoCs). It features
ultra-low impedance up to 1GHz in a low profile that can be
embedded into the substrate or interposer of any SoC, making it
ideal for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial
intelligence (AI) applications.
“The performance of SoCs and other large computing processors
are constantly increasing,” said Mukund Krishna, senior manager of
product marketing, Empower Semiconductor. “It is becoming
increasingly difficult to reach the level of power integrity and
voltage regulation that these devices require with conventional
MLCCs. The EC1005P features close-to-ideal parasitic parameters,
allowing these SoCs to operate with reduced voltage margining and
ultimately reducing system power.”
The EC1005P ECAP leverages Empower’s high-performance and
high-density silicon capacitor technology to fulfill the ‘last
inch’ decoupling gap from the voltage regulators to the SoC supply
pins. This approach substitutes several discrete components with
much lower performance and larger footprint, with a single
monolithic device that provides optimal electrical performance and
simplifies engineering complexity.
The EC1005P has an ultra-low sub-1-picohenry (pH) equivalent
series inductance (ESL) and sub-3-milliohm (mΩ) equivalent series
resistance (ESR) and is offered in a compact 3.643 x
3.036-millimeter 120-pad chip-scale package (CSP). The device comes
in a standard profile of 784-micron that can be customized for
various height requirements. Empower’s industry-leading silicon
capacitors provide high stability over voltage and temperature and
are not subject to derating or aging like traditional multi-layer
ceramic capacitors (MLCCs).
The EC1005P ECAP is available for sampling now and will be in
volume production in Q4 2024. To learn more about Empower
Semiconductor’s solutions, visit www.empowersemi.com.
About Empower
SemiconductorEmpower Semiconductor was founded with the
mission to “minimize the energy footprint of the digital economy”
by developing novel, fully integrated power management solutions
that increase the performance and reduce the power consumption of
energy-hungry, data-intensive applications.
Traditional power solutions require dozens of
discrete components with big footprints, complex designs and
deliver power inefficiently with poor response times and
inaccuracies. Empower Semiconductor’s patented IVR technology
integrates dozens of components into a single IC, shrinking
footprints by 3x, increasing efficiency and delivering power with
unprecedented simplicity, speed & accuracy. Empower IVR
technology solves the power density challenge to address a wide
range of applications including mobile, wearables, 5G, AI, and data
centers. ECAP revolutionized the capacitor industry as the world’s
smallest, highest performing, and reliable capacitor for wearables,
mobile, and SoC applications. The company is based in Silicon
Valley, CA and is led by a team of highly experienced power experts
and executives.
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