Nexperia invests in sustainable alternatives to batteries

Nexperia announced a broadening to its portfolio of power management products to include energy harvesting solutions. Energy can be harvested from light, vibrations, radio waves or temperature gradients and can therefore be used to replace batteries in low-power applications like smart wearables and autonomous wireless sensor nodes.

The expansion of Nexperia’s expertise comes through the acquisition of Netherlands-based Nowi, founded in 2016. Nowi’s PMICs combine the smallest PCB footprint with the lowest BOM cost and the best average harvesting performance. The manufacturing capacity and capability of Nexperia as well as its global infrastructure will ensure that together, Nowi will be able to speed the production of these solutions enabling higher volume production and shipping.

Diatom (NH16D3045) is a high-performance energy harvesting solution for low-power applications. Diatom is designed to work efficiently in the range of microwatts to milliwatts of power, which is suitable for different connected devices. A regular set of power management features have been added to the chip, allowing it function as a complete solution for all power management needs in an energy harvesting device (more info).