Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) and C&D Technologies Inc. (Tucson, AZ) announced that an agreement-in-principle has been reached to license Power-One's Z-One™ Digital Intermediate Bus Architecture (IBA) technology. Under the terms of the agreement, C&D Technologies' Power Electronics Division will be authorized to incorporate the "Z" technologies in the designs of its range of power conversion products.
C&D intends to design, manufacture and market Z-One™ Digital IBA Z-One compliant power systems, which include point-of-load converters that are virtually identical to Power-One's Z-Series. This alliance is a major step in accelerating adoption of the Z-One technology. Customers will have an open source of supply, making the Z-One technology available to a broad array of customers in diverse markets.
The maXyz "Z" architecture and power management allows key power-system components of a system to communicate with each other in real-time, enabling monitoring, reporting and providing the capability to make power system changes "on-the-fly." The Z-One Digital IBA technology uses the de-facto standard I2C bus to communicate with the host computer or a Windows™ graphical user interface.
