Skyworks Solutions, Inc. showcased its latest power and gate driver technologies at PCIM Europe 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany, focusing on enabling next-generation AI data centers, electric vehicle (EV) platforms, and industrial high-power applications. The company highlighted its software-defined power portfolio, emphasizing the role of isolation, sensing, and gate driver technologies in supporting the safe and efficient transfer of power from grid to rack. The demonstrations centered on two high-growth power domains: AI data center infrastructure and intelligent mobility.

AI Data Center and Server Power

Skyworks addressed the re-architecting of data center power delivery driven by AI, which is creating new requirements for efficiency, functional safety, observability, and real-time control. The company featured an end-to-end view of energy conversion from the AC front end to the server rack, demonstrating how its isolation and gate driver technologies support efficiency, timing accuracy, noise immunity, and reliability in AI data center power architectures. Additionally, Skyworks presented its SelVCD technology, which enables current-driven switching control without added digital complexity to help customers reduce EMI, improve efficiency, and accelerate design cycles.

Intelligent Mobility and EV Solutions

In the mobility sector, Skyworks showcased its Si829x isolated safety gate driver platform, designed to improve inverter efficiency and reduce system costs for EVs. The platform targets EV traction inverters, eTrucking, industrial motor drives, and emerging mobility platforms like robotaxis and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. A traction inverter dynamometer demonstration simulated the company's software-configurable gate driver technology for SiC and IGBT power devices, connecting device-level switching behavior to vehicle-level energy flow.

Technology and Performance

The Si829x platform employs ProVCD, Skyworks' second-generation variable current drive technology. This digitally tunable gate-drive technology improves efficiency and reduces design complexity, with Si829x integration delivering double-digit reductions in board space, BOM, and cost. Key performance benefits include reduced switching losses up to 44% compared with voltage mode, improved thermal efficiency, mitigated electromagnetic interference (EMI), and precise 15 Amp 3-phase turn-on and turn-off current waveform control. The platform is developed according to ISO 26262 functional safety standards and is suitable for systems rated up to ASIL D.

Platform Scalability and Availability

The Si829x is designed as a configurable platform, allowing engineers to adjust gate drive parameters through software rather than fixed hardware components. This supports design reuse across multiple vehicle platforms, faster development cycles, and vendor-agnostic compatibility across power semiconductor technologies. The solution supports both SiC FETs and IGBTs within a single platform and integrates a VPOS regulator to provide bipolar gate drive voltages. Skyworks exhibited the platform at PCIM Expo 2026 Hall 4A, Stand 328, with production planned for end July 2026.