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www.epc-co.com 1 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Alex Lidow, CEO Efficient Power Conversion Corporation October 2012 The eGaN ® FET Journey Continues PSMA Power Technology Roadmap
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www.epc-co.com 2 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 2 GaN Business Overview What Impacts the Adoption Rate Making GaN Easy to Use Now and In the Future New Applications for GaN Cost Roadmaps and Comparisons Reliability Summary Agenda
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www.epc-co.com 3 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Business Overview
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www.epc-co.com 4 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Served Available Market (SAM) Total = $12B in 2015 Source: IC Insights Power FET (up to 200V) $4.6B IGBT modules $2.3B IGBTs $878M Power FET (over 200V) $1.7B RF/Microwave $1.3B Bipolar $970M Bipolar Modules $49M FET Modules $232M EPC’s initial product Mostly 600 V
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www.epc-co.com 5 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Power ICs Add to the SAM Total = $18B in 2015 Source: Yole Development
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www.epc-co.com 6 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 GaN Market Projection EPC believes these projections are too optimistic and that 2015 GaN revenues will be less than $100M including RF Source: Yole Development
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www.epc-co.com 7 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Adoption
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www.epc-co.com 8 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 1.Make GaN Devices Easy to Use 2.Develop Applications beyond Silicon’s Capabilities 3.Make GaN Cost Effective 4.Establish GaN’s Reliability What Controls Adoption?
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www.epc-co.com 9 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Making GaN Easy to Use
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www.epc-co.com 10 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 It’s just like a MOSFET Is an eGaN ® FET easy to use? except The high frequency capability makes circuits using eGaN FETs sensitive to layout The lower V G(MAX) of 6 V makes it advisable to have V GS regulation in your gate drive circuitry
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www.epc-co.com 11 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Ecosystem Development Texas Instruments –Driver ICs and multi-chip modules Microsemi –Hi Rel and Radiation Hard Transistors
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www.epc-co.com 12 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Universities With GaN Programs University of California at Santa Barbara Virginia Polytechnic University Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Cornell University Katholieke Universiteit Leuven University of Bristol University of Glasgow University of Sheffield University of Warsaw University of Sydney Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge University National Central University of Taiwan Universities all over the world are graduating well-trained engineers experienced in the use of eGaN FETs.
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www.epc-co.com 13 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Driver On Board Beyond Discrete Devices Full-Bridge with Driver and Level Shift Discrete FET with Driver
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www.epc-co.com 14 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 What Other Advances are Needed? High speed digital controller ICs and integrated controller/driver ICs. –Application specific controllers to reduce time-to-market –Dynamic deadtime control with ~1ns resolution –Synchronous PFCs –Envelope Tracking Controllers Note: Improvements in magnetics would be helpful…
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www.epc-co.com 15 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Enhancement Mode eGaN FETs are just like MOSFETs Developing an ecosystem of strategic partners and compatible products Supporting University Research PhD –Level Applications Engineering Training Engineers through Applications and Seminars The first GaN Transistor Textbook Demonstration Boards and Development Kits Highly Experienced Field Applications Engineering for customer training Monolithic GaN ICs Making eGaN ® FETs Easy to Use
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www.epc-co.com 16 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Developing New Applications
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www.epc-co.com 17 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 New Applications Enabled by eGaN® FETs Wireless Power Transmission RF DC-DC “Envelope Tracking” High Energy Pulsed Lasers RadHard
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www.epc-co.com 18 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Wireless Power $15.1 B Market by 2020* eGaN FETs enable higher efficiency and operation at safer frequencies
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www.epc-co.com 19 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Envelope Tracking LTE Infrastructure forecasted to grow to $24B in 2013* Envelope Tracking can double base station efficiency
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www.epc-co.com 20 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 LiDAR - Pulsed Laser $330M market estimate for 2011* eGaN FETs enable faster and larger laser pulses 800 A
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www.epc-co.com 21 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Rad Hard $100M Market for Rad Hard MOSFETs eGaN FETs withstand more than 10x radiation and enable higher system efficiency
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www.epc-co.com 22 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Other Key Applications Power Over Ethernet RF Transmission Network and Server Power Supplies Power Factor Correction Point of Load Modules Solar Microinverters Energy Efficient Lighting Class D Audio
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www.epc-co.com 23 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Making GaN Cost Effective
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www.epc-co.com 24 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Silicon vs eGaN® FET Costs Starting Material Epi Growth Wafer Fab Test Assembly OVERALL 20122015 same higher same lower same lower ~same higher
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www.epc-co.com 25 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Cascode vs Enhancement Mode Gate Source Drain Cascode devices combine a depletion mode GaN transistor with a low voltage enhancement mode MOSFET
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www.epc-co.com 26 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Establishing GaN’s Reliability
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www.epc-co.com 27 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 eGaN® FETs are Reliable 27
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www.epc-co.com 28 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 Summary eGaN ® technology is disruptive EPC has been in production for 3 years GaN-enabled applications have surfaced GaN infrastructure is developing eGaN FET costs are coming down rapidly eGaN FETs are reliable GaN adoption rate is accelerating
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www.epc-co.com 29 EPC - The Leader in eGaN® FETs October 2012 The end of the road for silicon….. is the beginning of the eGaN FET journey!
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