High-efficiency, low-profile planar transformers and inductors
Champs Technologies is committed to providing high-quality and engineering-focused innovations. Their products are quality assured by their up-to-date certifications such as ISO9001-2015, UL File #251699, and Conflict Minerals Compliant.
They work in partnership with market-leading semiconductor manufacturers such as Linear Technology (today Analog Device), Texas instruments, and On-semi to develop products fitting into their reference designs to help support customer projects.
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Planar technology
What do we mean by the term "planar technology"? A planar transformer or inductor are low-profile magnetic components that sit at the same level as the “motherboard” PCB. Planar cores reduce the space requirements, increase the power density and the overall performance. Its design and use are possible due to tooled ferrite core shapes that are available. Champs Technologies provides a range of components based on ferrites ER, EE, PQ, and others available, whose input voltage range is from few volts up to 400.
The benefits of planar technology include low profile height, low leakage inductance, repeatable leakage inductance and capacitance, volumetric efficiency (small size), low turns count that improves Cu loss, optimised core cross-section lowers core loss, large core surface promotes heat transfer, PCB construction yields the lowest Cu loss, AC resistance and proximity Cu loss minimised, and the opportunity to embed planar into PCB modules.
Low profile transformers and inductors
Champs Technologies' standard components are ideal for designers who need high efficiency, low profile planar transformers and inductors, which are ideal for high-frequency applications with restrictive space requirements. Their standard planar cores enable customers to adjust the leg length and window height without new tooling. The final core specification can be tailored to exactly accommodate the planar conductor stack height, with no wasted space.
Reference designs
Reference designs help you to speed up your time to market. Champs Technologies have created a range of reference designs for when dimensions are restricted and customers' performance specifications have to be exactly met. These blueprints are ready to be added to your device design or enhanced and modified to make adding a planar transformer or inductor as quick and easy as possible to speed up your product delivery.
Custom / embedded solutions
If you don’t know which magnetic component you need for your design, then Acal BFi and Champs will work together with you to create a tailored, unique solution. We can create a custom discrete component that meets your application's exact specifications.
Reduce costs and time to market with our embedded solutions. Champs Technologies has the capabilities and experience to create PCB designs, embedding efficient and high-quality planar components, and creating a design that includes all your power components.
- Design and manufacture planar transformers and Inductors, conventional wound magnetics, inductors: Flat Wire and Helix
- Automobile grade multi-layer PCB 2 - 30 layers up to 5oz Copper for planar transformer assembly
- Embedded planar - integrated directly into PCB
- Volume: typical 1K-100K per month requirement, custom devices small production runs handled
- Power design: DC/DC converter, AC-DC power supply, and battery chargers
- SMT PCB component assembly including planar components
Within the Magnetics Products Technology Centre, we offer an array of services to help create customised solutions.
With the largest team of technical support specialists in Europe, we are at the forefront of a design led approach to delivering challenging and custom solutions for magnetic cores or components for production.
Whether your need is simple or complex, we can develop a solution to achieve your goals. With in- house experts we can design, develop and test prototypes that meet performance and environmental requirements of your application.
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Our engineers will skilfully guide you through each stage of your project, working with you to understand and identify a solution that meets your technical and commercial needs before designing and integrating your solution.