Smart Power Metering: Dolphin Integration first Silicon IP provider to announce range 1/5,000 with 0.05 % accuracy for a complete solution

Grenoble, France – February 23, 2015 -- Dolphin Integration, leading provider for high-resolution converters, announces silicon-proven Virtual Component of IP targeting the growing market of Smart meters, such as Utility billing meters or Smart plugs.

The state-of-the-art Metro-PM-Jade-mono.05, featuring a complete measurement subsystem for single-phase power metering ICs, is available for Fabless and SoC integrators in technological processes at 180 nm and 130 nm. Users of Metro-PM-Jade-mono.05 benefit from a high-resolution Mixed-signal Front-End (sensAFE-20x32-PM-mono.05-LB) and a dense Power and energy Computation Engine (PCE-PM.01). Furthermore, this product embeds a low-drift voltage reference and a low-noise voltage regulator. Thanks to lower constraints on supply noise, the safest integration process is ensured with the reduction of the Bill of Material (BoM).

Dolphin Integration unveils the measurement report of its end-to-end metering product containing the Analog Front-Ends (Silicon qualifier) and the Computation Engine (on FPGA), and demonstrates its ability to achieve high-class performances for power metering applications.

The product Metro-PM-Jade-mono.05 has been tested either for association with a current transformer sensor or with a shunt resistor. It features outstanding performances enabling to achieve respectively accuracy of 0.05 % / 0.07 % with a range of 5,000 / 3,000. Additionally, the accuracy of the measurements enables to gather new types of advanced data, which can be exploited to supply users with better information and to best serve utilities in the energy production management.

Since 1985, Dolphin Integration has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to develop Right-on-First-Pass Virtual Components thanks to its Virtual Fab Process™ where Silicon Qualifiers serve to validate the equivalence between simulations and measurements.

For further information, feel free to request the Measurement Report or the presentation of the new JadeVisionPro™ prototyping platform by contacting converters@dolphin-ip.com

For more information about Dolphin Integration's product portfolio and measurement ADCs, please visit our catalog.

About Dolphin Integration

Dolphin Integration contributes to "enabling mixed signal Systems-on-Chip" for worldwide customers - up to the major actors of the semiconductor industry - with Silicon IP components best at low-power consumption.

This wide offering is based on innovative libraries of standard cells, register files, memory generators and power regulators. Complete networks for power supply can be flexibly assembled together with their loads: from high-resolution converters for audio and measurement applications to power-optimized micro-controllers of 8 or 16 and 32 bits.

Over 30 years of diverse experiences in the integration of silicon IP components and providing services for ASIC/SoC design and fabrication, with its own EDA solutions solving unaddressed challenges, make Dolphin Integration a genuine one-stop shop covering all customers’ needs for specific requests.

The company striving to incessantly innovate for its customers’ success has led to two strong differentiators:

• state-of-the-art “configured subsystems” for high-performance applications securing the most competitive SoC architectural solutions,
• a team of Central and Field Application Engineers supporting each user’s need for optimal application schematics, demonstrated through EDA solutions enabling early performance assessments

Its social responsibility has been from the start focused on the design of integrated circuits with low-power consumption, placing the company in the best position to now contribute to new applications for general power savings through the emergence of the Internet of Things.