Wise-integration taps Canada for digital GaN expertise
French intelligent GaN chip designer Wise-integration is opening a Design & Development Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to serve North America.
The centre will be led by Christian Cojocaru and staffed by experts in analog and digital technology design to drive the development of the company’s design portfolio for the next generations of WiseGan
Cojocaru is currently co-founder and director IC Engineering at Solantro Semiconductor in Ottawa which designs and build devices specifically to measure, process and drive complex power architectures from distributed energy resources, including analog and digital power controllers.
WiseGan includes GaN power integrated circuits designed for high-frequency operation in the MHz range, integrating features that streamline implementation with digital control. WiseWare is a 32-bit, MCU-based AC-DC digital controller optimized for GaN-based power-supply architectures. It offers simplified system design, a reduced bill of materials, and improved power density and efficiency.
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Ottawa is also home to power engineers with GaN Systems which was bought by Infineon Technologies last year. Infineon is currently going though a down-sizing of staff.
“The Canadian team will be instrumental in advancing our cutting-edge digital WiseGan series, which is specifically designed to facilitate seamless integration of GaN technology for our customers, and to be fully compatible with and optimized to facilitate MCU control,” said Thierry Bouchet, CEO of Wise-integration which spun out of the CEA_Leti labs in Grenoble.
“I am proud and excited to have a powerhouse team of senior designers developing our next-gen digital WiseGan, leveraging Wise-integration’s deep expertise, at this promising time for GaN devices in North America,” said Bouchet.
“By maximizing the high-frequency capabilities of GaN without added power losses, the next generations of the two product lines will enable significant reductions in system size and cost, while boosting overall conversion efficiency.”
“These innovations will directly address the challenges faced by designers of server power supplies, motor control, and other power-converter systems, who are under increasing pressure to optimize power consumption and energy efficiency,” he said.
“Our next generation-products will be a perfect vehicle to accelerate GaN adoption across power conversion markets in industrial, datacentre, AI, and automotive applications, where digital control is essential for managing complex systems.”
In August the company launched a Chinese subsidiary in Hong Kong which followed a €15 million Series B funding round in February.
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