Lucent Technologies Unveils the Onami 5V and 12V Power Modules

Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) has just unveiled the Onami 5V and 12V Power Modules. The new Onami Series of isolated power modules join the original Onami module family that Lucent introduced last fall. Both modules are 125W dc/dc converters meant to be placed in an open-construction SIP connector package.

Onami modules offer telecom-wide input ranges from 36V to 75V with typical efficiencies of 87 percent. The new Onami modules are parallelable and, according to Lucent, offer true current-sharing capability. They are intended to provide customers with future expansion flexibility and are targeted to distributed-power architecture applications such as servers, computers, data networking, wireless base stations, telecom and test equipment.

Bharat Modh, Lucent's technical marketing engineer, claims that because of their small size and vertical plug-in profile, Onami modules are perfect when board space is at a premium and the system requires point-of-load conversion. These qualities, and the modules' SIP packaging, are intended to allow designers to use board space more efficiently and also to improve scalability.

The Onami 5V and Onami 12V will be available in mid November and December, respectively, and are priced at $85.10 per unit in quantities of 1,000.