AMP Group announces gigaAMP standard

The ‘gigaAMP’ standard, introduced to provide a higher current option in a land-grid array (LGA) footprint, builds on the previously-released ‘picoAMP’ standard, published in September 2015, which defined standards for a lower range of non-isolated platforms ranging from 6 A to 18 A.

The 60 A ‘gigaAMP’ standard defines a compact footprint of 25.1 x 14.1 mm in an LGA format.

The new ‘gigaAMP’ standard also adds to the previously released ‘teraAMP’ standard for non-isolated digital point-of-load (POL) dc-dc converters, released in February 2015, and the ‘microAMP’ and ‘megaAMP’ standards released during electronica in November 2014.

The first products to meet with the ‘gigaAMP’ standard will be announced by AMP Group members later in the year.

“The ‘gigaAMP’ standard is a continuation of the AMP Group’s efforts to establish industry standards that cover every aspect of board-level digital power technology,” stated Martin Hägerdal, President of Ericsson Power Modules. “And the addition of this new standard at 60 A helps to further address the growing demands on performance, complexity and flexibility in intelligent power supply infrastructures,” added Steve Pimpis, President & CEO of Murata Power Solutions.

The Architects of Modern Power consortium formed in October 2014 is an alliance between CUI, Ericsson Power Modules and Murata with the objective of providing technically advanced, end-to-end solutions with a complete ecosystem of hardware, software and support.

It will be on show at Electronica in Munich in November.