Power electronics.

Our expertise in power electronics.

As your reliable partner in hardware development, we offer specialised solutions in the field of embedded electronics and power electronics. Our customised development process is based on the individual goals of our customers and takes into account essential factors such as time-to-market, component availability, cost-efficient production and the fulfilment of normative requirements.

Our expertise lies in the fulfilment of high safety requirements in the areas of Functional safety and explosion protection. Together with our experienced EMS partners, we are able to realise prototypes quickly and efficiently.

Thanks to our extensive experience in many projects, we minimise project risks and ensure a smooth development process. We carry out accompanying tests in our laboratories to maximise the chances of successful product certification. These tests also include testing the power electronic assemblies and drive systems in full load operation up to 100kW. Rely on our expertise to realise your projects successfully and future-proof.

We also provide support for qualified troubleshooting in existing products and for product maintenance.

Your advantages with embeX.

  • Relieve your development team of time-consuming routine tasks
  • Support from highly specialised experts
  • Maximum security in two-way contact via multi-encrypted communication and the absence of cloud solutions

Development services for power electronics.

  • Realisation of circuit design, layout, simulation and lifetime analysis
  • Reliable measurement, control and regulation electronics
  • Developments with microcontrollers and FPGAs from all well-known manufacturers
  • Use of the customer's own or embeX component library
  • Control electronics taking embedded security into account
  • Safety hardware
    • Hardware for the areas of functional safety and explosion protection
    • High-availability electronics with multiple redundant circuit parts
    • Component selection with derating and worst case analyses
    • Calculations of reliability indicators and safety parameters
    • Comprehensive self-diagnostics and self-tests
  • Power electronics
    • Power electronic systems up to 500 kW
    • Converters for the control of electric drives and for generation systems, taking into account grid codes up to 1500 V
    • High-power chargers for electromobility
    • Use of innovative power semiconductor technologies such as embedded power MOSFETS, wide-bandgap semiconductors such as SiC or GaN
  • Thermal management
    • Simulation of thermally optimised housings and systems
    • Heat sinks made from extruded and die-cast aluminium profiles, as well as water-cooled in brazing technology or with inserted tubes
  • Production
    Under our careful coordination, our prototypes are manufactured during the development phase by a network of competent EMS partner companies. Even at this early stage, we provide the necessary testing equipment for both prototype and subsequent series production. Once the pilot series has been completed, our respective partner company assumes responsibility for series production so that the customer has a single point of contact for all matters at all times. The EMS service provider is selected in close consultation with our customers.

Developed highly available products.

High-availability systems must function reliably at all times. Our safe power electronics solutions help to minimise failures and maximise availability:

  • Development of decentralised drive solutions
  • Development of components for highly available and robust drive systems
  • Development of control and drive systems in offshore wind turbines
  • Realisation of reliable control systems for drives in poorly available power grids
  • Integration of independent power supplies (UPS) in harsh environments
  • Development of DC bus systems / DC micro grids
  • Solutions for predictive maintenance
  • Creation of digital twins for drive and system optimisation

ePCDP (embeX Power Conversion Development Platform)

embeX is a modular rapid prototyping platform developed in-house for modern converter technologies:

Enables rapid realisation and feasibility tests for innovative converter technologies up to a power class of 20kw. In addition to classic semiconductor modules in IGBT, SiC and GaN technology, buried semiconductors in 1200V SiC and 650V GaN technology can also be tested.

An initial prototype realisation enables the technological verification of an industrial converter with a rated power of 20kw that generates a sinusoidal output current without its own sinusoidal filter at the output.

Board

  • Compatible with ST Nucleo boards

  • Embedded GaN Technology

  • Embedded SIC Technology

  • Power modules

    Possible topologies:
    - B6C with SiC semiconductors
    - 3-Level T-Type NPC with IGBT4 technology
    - 3-Level I-Type NPC with IGBT4 technology

Applicable technologies:

  • Matlab embedded Coder
  • Matlab IEC 61508 development toolchain
  • Buried power semiconductors integrated by embeX:

    • SiG (display a corresponding image when activating with the mouse, SiC)

    • GaN (GaN)

  • Power modules as B6 (B6)
  • Power modules in T-type topology (T-type)
  • Power modules in I-Type topology (I-Type)
  • embeX technology:
    Sinusoidal output voltage
  • Standard industrial solution:
    PWM output voltage (adjust the background to white)

Start your project with embeX.