Akros Silicon

Akros Silicon is a provider of leading edge power management ICs that offer superior efficiency performance and advanced features to facilitate remote and intelligent network-based energy management.Their solutions help manufacturers of electronic equipment create more efficient and advanced products at reduced costs, while enabling end users the ability to reduce energy usage.
Akros’ breakthrough and proprietary GreenEdge(TM) digital isolation technology enables unprecedented integration by eliminating the traditional isolation barrier to create a Power System-on-a-Chip (Power SoC) solution. Each SoC replaces “bag of chips” designs with flexible and efficient platform solutions that shrink the design footprint and lower the bill-of-material costs—all while delivering enhanced end-to-end system capability.
Akros’ solutions are used in a wide-range of equipments that benefit from superior energy efficiency, intelligent power management, network-based energy management and diagnostics, high-voltage/ground loop isolation and EMC protection. These include direct-line or Ethernet-powered (PoE) appliances like VoIP phones, wireless LAN access points, WiMax CPEs, residential gateways, IP and analog surveillance cameras, thin client computers, industrial, automotive and medical equipment.
Akros is committed to advancing the state-of-the-art of digital power and energy management through the creative application of their novel IC architectures and software programmability—addressing their customers’ demand for simpler and cost-effective system designs and faster design cycles.

Akros is committed to advancing the state-of-the-art of digital power and energy management through the creative application of their novel IC architectures and software programmability—addressing their customers’ demand for simpler and cost-effective system designs and faster design cycles.

The Akros team brings together diverse expertise in high-voltage power management, precision analog and high-speed mixed-signal designs, Ethernet and other communication System-on-a-chip (SoC) designs and technologies--with the objective of solving their customers’ problem of developing more power efficient and managed appliances, in a more cost effective manner with short time to market.

To do so,Akros takes a unique system-oriented approach to find crucial barriers and bottlenecks impacting system performance and cost, and addresses those with fundamental innovation at the IC level.

For instance, high efficiency managed power is crucial to next-generation, energy-managed PoE (Power over Ethernet) systems, like the VoIP phones, IP Cameras, wireless LAN access points, etc. Also, cost is a major driver for large-scale deployments. To address these, Akros has developed breakthrough and proprietary GreenEdge? 2kV high-voltage digital isolation technology that enables superior DC-DC efficiency and high-performance energy management across isolated power domains. It provides unparalleled integration at Power System-on-a-Chip (Power SoC) level to address all the customers' Power system design needs and cost concerns in a single device. And it’s developed on mass manufacturing standard CMOS process to benefit from the economies of scale of standard CMOS. Akros’ unique architecture combines the benefits of integration with power system performance enhancements along with EMC compliance management for faster time to market for their customers.