Microsemi Announces Commending Power-Over-HDBaseT (POH) Standard Ratification

Microsemi (News - Alert) Corporation has announced that the company has commended the ratification of Power Over HDBaseT (POH) as part of HDBaseT specification.

Broadening the applications for core PoE technology, Microsemi heads the HDBaseT Alliance sub-committee developing HDBaseT power specifications. To manage overall power consumption and efficiency, HDBaseT's power-delivery technology provides the foundation for new opportunities.

These capabilities are enabled by the underlying PoE technology that has become a critical element of the latest POH specification, the company stated in a press release.

“The ratification of POH further validates HDBaseT as an emerging industry standard, and Microsemi is fully committed to the development of new Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) midspans and IC's supporting this new POH technology,” said Paul Pickle, senior vice president of Microsemi's Integrated Circuit Group. “Microsemi already has our PD69108 IC in full production. This IC product is compliant with Power Over HDBaseT 1.0, which allows switch and AV receiver makers to develop PSE's that can be extremely energy-efficient”

Microsemi's PoE product portfolio also includes the PD95xx midspan family, which behaves as a Type 2 twin PSE supporting POH and with IEEE802.3at-2009, delivering up to 60W per port, in addition to the PD69108, which can be used to implement Type 3 twin PSE's that deliver up to 95 W per port.

Microsemi actively supports HDBaseT as means to distribute video over CAT5 cable, as one of the first companies to demonstrate how to leverage PoE-based technology to power various electronic devices throughout the home.

Recently, the company announced that it will be pairing with Ariane Controls, a powerline communications developer, to provide FPGA technology for a premier development platform capable of supporting emerging electric-vehicle charging and related Smart Grid standards.

Ariane Control’s AC-CPM1 AutoGrade J2931 utilizes the flexibility and functioning capability of Microsemi's ProASIC3 flash FPGAs to speed design cycles for systems which employ automotive standard J2931 for communication between Electric Vehicles (EV) and Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE).