Providing up to 3x faster charging and enhanced flexibility for consumer,commercial, industrial and automotive applications
Leading the way in wirelesscharging technologies, NXP Semiconductor today released the industry’s firstwireless charging solution simultaneously supporting both 15W WPC Qi and 5W PMAstandards, further extending its wireless charging portfolio. The solutionoffers more flexibility and usability for users and paves the way for fasterand more convenient wireless charging for a variety of mobile devices such asmobile phones, tablets, wearables, medical devices, power tools and point ofsales equipment.
“Wirelesscharging is now pervading the mobile devices market and is expanding wellbeyond traditional consumer charging mats to include in-vehicle charging andindustrial applications” said Denis Cabrol, director of global marketing forNXP’s Microcontroller business line. “The NXP solution offers a versatileplatform for designers to bring to market creative solutions offering fasterrecharge speeds, while enabling cross standard mobile device charging.”
Delivering6x more power than standard USB connections and 3x the power of today’swireless charging methods, NXP’s 15W wireless offering is being implementedtoday and provides efficient charging of larger form factor devices as well asfaster charging on smaller ones.
Flexibility enables deployment in multipleapplication segments
NXP’s 15W portfolio includescomplete, pre-certified transmit and receive solutions that can be readilydeployed into consumer devices. In addition, a modular firmware and advancedAPI make it possible to easily add extra features for more complex use cases.For instance, a solution for the automotive transmitter market, including NFCand CAN communication, extended temperature range and guaranteed supplylongevity, is already available and being implemented by several key auto Tier1 manufacturers.
Industrial,healthcare and commercial applications vary widely in terms of charging needsand may benefit from non-standard charging methods. The NXP solution enablesdesigners to develop their own specific protocols, as well as makes it easy toadd functionalities such as user interfaces and connectivity, making it themost versatile wireless charging platform in the industry.
“We reallysee in-vehicle wireless charging as a natural place for broad adoption. Themulti-standard solution offered by NXP’s MWCT1x1x enables rapid adoption ofwireless charging and uniquely eliminates the uncertainty of designing aroundindustry standards,” said Jeongyko Seo, research fellow at LG advanced R&D.
Extensive Development Support
NXP’s wireless charging solutionsinclude production-ready reference designs and evaluation boards for optimizedperformance and fast time to market. The WCT-15W1COILTX transmitter referencedesign is based on the MWCT1012 transmit controller IC. To support the WPR1516receiver IC, NXP provides two evaluation board options for different outputpower topologies, WPR1500-LDO and WPR1500-BUCK.
Availability
NXP’s new 15W wireless chargingsolution is available now. Contact your local NXP sales representative for moreinformation or visit http://www.nxp.com/products/power-management/wireless-charging-ics