The Cross-Suitable OBC Permits Versatile, Environment friendly, And Clever Energy Programs Throughout A number of Huge-Bandgap Platforms
Sensible-integration, a pioneer in digital management for gallium nitride (GaN) and GaN IC-based energy provides, will break new floor at PCIM Europe 2025, Might 6–8 in Nuremberg. In collaboration with Savoy Worldwide Group, the corporate will debut its digital controller of a silicon carbide (SiC) energy demonstrator mannequin, underscoring its enlargement into complementary wide-bandgap applied sciences and showcasing its WiseWare digital controller’s universality and adaptableness throughout these applied sciences.
This marks a new market entry for Sensible-integration—particularly, concentrating on SiC-based high-voltage functions in automotive and industrial sectors—whereas reinforcing that WiseWare can function a widespread digital intelligence layer whatever the underlying semiconductor materials.
Constructing on Sensible-integration’s Core GaN Experience
The WiseWare 1 OBC SIC 7kW energy demonstrator mannequin builds on the corporate’s core experience in GaN-based programs and digital management ICs, reinforcing its dedication to advancing the total spectrum of energy semiconductor applied sciences. This cross-compatible, digital management answer for each GaN and SiC, allows versatile, environment friendly, and clever energy programs throughout a number of WBG platforms.
“This demonstration of a silicon-carbide onboard charger marks an essential step in Sensible-integration’s journey towards the automotive market,” mentioned CEO Thierry Bouchet. “By displaying that WiseWare can reliably management high-voltage, high-power programs in an EV-relevant utility, we’re validating our digital management platform as a robust candidate for next-generation onboard chargers. It’s a primary step towards demonstrating that our know-how is scalable, adaptable, and aligned with the wants of future EV platforms.”
The demonstrator is a prototype product for the corporate’s accomplice, Savoy Worldwide Group, a Tier 1 automotive provider, whose e-mobility division collaborated with Sensible-integration on a GaN charger embedded in e-bike batteries in 2023.
“This prototype has been developed particularly to assist the electrification of Savoy’s revolutionary, mild electrical automobiles beneath the KILOW model, in addition to their broader ambition to advertise enjoyable, accessible, and sustainable mobility options,” Bouchet defined.
“Our earlier collaboration with Sensible-integration on the embedded GaN charger for our e-bike battery met all of our expectations for efficiency and helps us differentiate KILOW in a crowded area,” mentioned Émile Allamand, CEO of Savoy Group. “The SiC onboard charger will allow us to diversify our EV choices with a mild, four-wheel automobile beneath our KILOW model.”
Main Differentiators of the WiseWare 1 OBC SIC 7kW Demonstrator:
- Expertise-agnostic management:WiseWare works seamlessly with each GaN and SiC, permitting OEMs to maintain management structure fixed, whereas optimizing the ability stage for every use case (price, energy degree, thermal profile, and many others.).
- Digital-first method:In contrast to conventional analog management platforms, Sensible-integration virtualizes management features, enabling simplified designs, sooner iterations, and extra compact programs.
- Open and modular design philosophy:WiseWare is just not tied to a proprietary microcontroller or change model. This flexibility makes it extremely engaging to Tier 1s and system integrators searching for to cut back vendor lock-in.
SiC know-how delivers wonderful thermal efficiency and is very environment friendly beneath heavy hundreds—making it splendid for high-power elements like traction inverters and quick chargers. Its ruggedness and maturity additionally contribute to its reliability within the demanding automotive atmosphere. WiseWare’s SiC demonstration exhibits that the corporate’s digital management platform is technology-agnostic, and may convey the identical efficiency, modularity, and intelligence to SiC programs because it does to GaN programs.
