Quickly Validate Power Management ICs (PMICs)

In Power Management IC (PMIC) validation, engineers and managers may face challenges such as keeping up with evolving applications, balancing thorough testing and constraints, coordinating teams, and meeting aggressive time-to-market schedules. Finding a validation platform that meets these challenges is a critical component to PMIC validation success:

Time-to-Market Pressure—PMIC manufacturers face pressure to get their products to market quickly.
Complex Power-Management Requirements—PMICs must meet complex power management requirements, including voltage and current regulation, power sequencing, and thermal management.
Variability in Supply Voltage and Temperature—PMICs must be validated across varying supply voltage and temperature to meet their specs and requirements.
Interaction with Other Components—PMICs must be tested in an actual system to verify correct interaction with other components in the validation lab.
Cost—PMIC validation testing can be expensive, particularly if the test equipment required is specialized and not readily available.

NI’s Power Management IC Validation Solution

Performs power measurements with specialized, high-accuracy instrumentation built on the PXI platform, such as PXI Power Supply and PXI Electronic Load Module
Leverages high-performance instrumentation including PXI Waveform Generators, PXI Source Measure Units (SMUs), PXI Digital Multimeters (DMMs), PXI Digital Instruments, and PXI Oscilloscopes
Enables powerful engineering workflows between interactive tasks (bring up and debug) and automated tasks (automated validation and characterization)
Provides configurable instrument control with an intuitive InstrumentStudio™ software panel with options to export configuration settings for simple automation with TestStand or LabVIEW

Solution Advantages

Faster Time-to-Market—Solution enables quick, effective validation of PMICs that can significantly narrow time-to-market.
Streamlined Validation Workflow—NI provides a fully integrated platform that decreases engineering time spent developing software and integrating disparate hardware platforms.

Seamless Integration—Flexible, user-friendly PMIC validation solution integrates into existing workflows with ease.
Reliable Results—Latest test equipment and software technologies provide reliable PMIC validation results through high-performance instrumentation.

Build Your Solution with the NI Ecosystem

NI offers a variety of solution integration options customized to your application-specific requirements. You can use your own internal integration teams for full system control or leverage the expertise of NI and our worldwide NI Partner Network to obtain a turnkey solution.

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