Vicor to announce modular power conversion solutions for 48V Zonal Architectures at WCX 2024

With the automotive industry shifting towards 48V zonal architectures, power system design engineers are seeking advanced high voltage power conversion systems that offer superior power density, weight, and scalability characteristics.

Vicor Corporation is scheduled to deliver five presentations at the World Congress Experience 2024 (WCX™) in Detroit from April 16 to 18. These presentations will focus on Vicor’s pioneering method of power conversion, namely in the areas of 800V and 48V, utilizing advanced power modules that are both high-density and scalable. These modules use unique topologies and creative packaging techniques developed by Vicor.

The WCX™ World Congress Experience is a gathering of the engineering community to discuss and address the major challenges in the field of mobility. These challenges include the widespread adoption of electric vehicles, the timetables for the development of autonomous vehicles, and the understanding of global supply chain limitations that affect the automotive sector. The World Congress Experience is a conference organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

The Vicor papers are the following:

03.26.2024

03.21.2024

03.18.2024

• Achieving EM conducted emission compliance for high-voltage conversion with switching frequency above 1.3MHz
  Presented by: Nicola Rosano, Sr. Strategic System Engineer, EMEA
• Designing 48V zonal architecture that keeps the high voltage inside the BEV battery pack 
  Presented by: YK Choi, Sr. Field Application Engineer, Vicor, APAC and Kang YoungJae, Chief Engineer, INFAC
• Eliminating the high-voltage precharge with existing hardware in BEV
  Presented by: Patrick Kowalyk Automotive, Principal Field Application Engineer, North America
• Migrating to 48V with high efficiency, power density and efficient system cost
  Presented by: Patrick Wadden, Global VP, Automotive Business Unit
• The uncertain future of aftermarket loads in a 48V world 
  Presented by: David McChesney, Strategic Account Manager, North America

Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio holds a Ph. D. in Physics and is a Telecommunications Engineer. He has worked on various international projects in the field of gravitational waves research, designing a thermal compensation system (TCS) and data acquisition and control systems, and on others about x-ray microbeams in collaboration with Columbia University, high voltage systems and space technologies for communications and motor control with ESA/INFN. TCS has been applied to the Virgo and LIGO experiments, which detected gravitational waves for the first time and earned the Nobel Prize in 2017. Since 2007, he has been a reviewer for scientific publications for academics such as Microelectronics Journal and IEEE journals. Moreover, he has collaborated with different electronic industry companies and several Italian and English blogs and magazines, such as Electronics World, Elektor, Mouser, Automazione Industriale, Electronic Design, All About Circuits, Fare Elettronica, Elettronica Oggi, and PCB Magazine, as a technical writer/editor, specializing in several topics of electronics and technology. From 2015 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Firmware and Elettronica Open Source, which are technical blogs and magazines for the electronics industry. He participated in many conferences as a speaker of keynotes for different topics such as x-ray, space technologies, and power supplies. Maurizio enjoys writing and telling stories about Power Electronics, Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Automotive, IoT, Embedded, Energy, and Quantum Computing. Maurizio has been an AspenCore content editor since 2019. He is currently editor-in-chief of Power Electronics News and EEWeb and a correspondent for EE Times. He is the host of PowerUP, a podcast about power electronics, and the promoter and organizer of the PowerUP Virtual Conference, a summit where each year great speakers talk about the power electronics design trends. Moreover, he has contributed to a number of technical and scientific articles as well as a couple of Springer books on energy harvesting and data acquisition and control systems.