Posted to News on 24th Feb 2011, 11:45
New 1G Base-T media filters and 10/100 Base-T media filters
Tyco Electronics (TE) is introducing three new embedded magnetic product offerings from its recently acquired PlanarMag product technology - an innovation that fully automates traditional hand-wound coiling processes. This enables economic and manufacturing scalability to provide faster manufacturing cycle times during periods of high demand and allows for consistent product lead time and supply.
Sabi Varma, Director of Magnetics at TE, comments: "Our new technology will significantly speed product time-to-market and increase supply chain capacity while improving the overall reliability and quality of our product. It helps minimise cost impacts, which arise from labour pool instability and increasing labour costs. This technology is truly an innovation for Ethernet products."
The new PlanarMag product technology capitalises on three innovations to improve the design and manufacture of electromagnetic components:
- Use of proprietary material to embed highly sensitive magnetic ferrites into standard PCBs
- Utilisation of a 3D-electromagnetic simulator with unique design techniques to create patented proprietary winding structures
- Standard PCB processes to manufacture boards containing hundreds to thousands of parts at once, with improved performance and consistency, while utilising semiconductor testing methodologies
TE's initial roll out of PlanarMag products includes two new discrete Ethernet components and a 1G Mag45 ICM (part number 1840771-2) with PlanarMag product technology embedded magnetics. The discrete components are 1G Base-T media filters (part number 2048107-1) and 10/100 Base-T media filters (part number 2048108-1). Key product features that are common to the entire product offering include: single-port configuration; and media filter and isolation transformer.
In addition to the cost and supply benefits of automation scalability, the new PlanarMag products reduce or eliminate termination components because of their precision centre tap and transformer symmetry. This consistency and repeatability improves performance and can help facilitate FCC class B compliance. The 10/100/1G Base-T media filters have a 24-pin BGA configuration and the 10/100 Base-T media filters have 12-pin castellation I/Os (an industry standard pin-to-pin design) for customers to easily qualify and ramp production in existing products using gull-wing discrete.
The 1G Mag45 ICM is the first fully integrated connector utilising the PlanarMag embedded magnetic product technology and is a low-profile configuration for applications that require reduced height and small form factor footprint.
All products are RoHS-compliant per JEDEC J-STD, meet the IEEE 802.3 specification and can help facilitate FCC Class B qualifications. Product applications include low-port-density switches and routers, low-profile notebooks/netbooks, desktop computers, IP routers, cable modems, set top boxes, TV/DVR, IP phones, IP cameras, video game consoles and more.
For more information on the new PlanarMag product technology, visit www.te.com/products/planarmag.
