Advanced Automotive Power Solutions
01 Jul 2025 - 02 Jul 2025
online
Smart Switching · Onboard Charging · BMS · SiC/GaN · DC-DC Conversion · Zonal & Traction Architectures
Join Avnet Silica and our key technology partners for a two-day digital experience dedicated to the future of electrified mobility. As the automotive industry accelerates toward smarter, safer, and more sustainable electric vehicles, the demands on power electronics, system efficiency, and design innovation have never been higher.
This event brings together top experts from NXP, Renesas, Microchip, Diodes, STMicroelectronics, onsemi, Nexperia, and ROHM to explore the latest breakthroughs in power management, semiconductors, and system design. Through eight focused technical sessions, you’ll gain insights into cutting-edge solutions for:
- Battery management and traction inverter safety
- High-performance onboard chargers and DC-DC conversion
- Smart zonal architecture with intelligent switching
- GaN and SiC technologies for compact, efficient designs
- Automotive system integration, monitoring, and diagnostics
Whether you’re an automotive systems engineer, power electronics designer, or innovation lead, this event is your opportunity to connect with leading minds and technologies shaping the EV landscape.
Don’t miss out—discover how to power the shift, from watts to wisdom.
Agenda
Day 1: July 1st, 2025
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CEST — Avnet Silica presents "Powering the Shift" + Intro (Avnet Silica)
- 10:35 AM - 11:25 AM CEST — Accelerating Electrification: Safety, Security & Time-to-Market Solutions for the EV Future (NXP)
- 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM CEST — Next-Gen Power: Latest Power MOSFETs and GaN Portfolio from Renesas (Renesas)
- 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CEST — Charging Ahead: dsPIC33 Solutions for On-Board EV Chargers (Microchip)
- 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CEST — Smart Power: Latest DC-DC Converters and LED Driver Innovations (Diodes Inc.)
Day 2: July 2nd, 2025
- 10:30 AM - 10:35 AM CEST — Welcome & Intro (Avnet Silica)
- 10:35 AM - 11:25 AM CEST — High-Performance Power Semiconductors for Next-Gen Automotive Systems (STMicroelectronics)
- 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM CEST — Smart Switching and Zonal Control: Enabling Reliable EV Architectures (onsemi)
- 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CEST — Powering Efficiency: Solving EV Design Challenges with Nexperia (Nexperia)
- 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CEST — Intelligent Power Devices for Evolving Automotive Architectures (ROHM)
Partners
Topics
Day 1 – July 1st, 2025
Avnet Silica presents "Powering the Shift" (Avnet Silica)
10:00 AM CEST
Presenter: Thomas Hauer, Michael Pochmann and Stefan Zwick
In this webinar session, Avnet Silica presents "Powering the Shift", an initiative designed to guide engineers, innovators, and decision-makers through the rapid transformation of power systems across industries. Discover how we support the transition to smarter, more efficient energy solutions with advanced semiconductor technologies, expert design support, and a strong partner ecosystem.
The session will also highlight key trends and market developments in automotive power applications, including electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, and evolving powertrain technologies.
Accelerating Electrification: Safety, Security & Time-to-Market Solutions for the EV Future (NXP)
10:35 AM CEST
Presenter: Emmanuel Carcenac
This session explores how NXP enables faster time-to-market in key EV applications such as Battery Management Systems and Traction Inverters while ensuring ASIL D safety compliance. It also highlights how NXP supports evolving cybersecurity standards through Battery Passport regulations, helping customers address future-proof electrification challenges.
Next-Gen Power: Latest Power MOSFETs and GaN Portfolio from Renesas (Renesas)
11:30 AM CEST
Presenter: Jörg Weeger
Renesas presents its latest advancements in Power MOSFET and GaN technologies, designed to meet the demands of battery-powered systems and 48V boardnet applications. The session showcases how these products support a broad range of power needs—from tens of watts to kilowatts—covering everything from compact converters to motor drivers.
Charging Ahead: dsPIC33 Solutions for On-Board EV Chargers (Microchip)
02:00 PM CEST
Presenters: Cormac Harrington, Franz Thalheimer
Focused on Microchip’s dsPIC33 digital signal controllers, this session highlights their use in building efficient EV on-board chargers. Attendees will gain insights into core topologies such as three-phase PFC and DC-DC Dual Active Bridge, along with practical demonstrations that emphasize performance, control, and flexibility in real-world designs.
Smart Power: Latest DC-DC Converters and LED Driver Innovations (Diodes Inc.)
03:00 PM CEST
Presenter: Simon Ramsdale
This session highlights Diodes Incorporated’s power tree solutions, featuring the latest advancements in Buck Converters, LDOs, Ideal Diode Controllers, and LED drivers. These innovations offer compact, efficient approaches to automotive power management, enabling designers to create robust systems across various electric platforms.
Day 2 – July 2nd, 2025
High-Performance Power Semiconductors for Next-Gen Automotive Systems (STMicroelectronics)
10:35 AM CEST
Presenter: Michael Luett
ST offers a comprehensive portfolio of power semiconductors including SiC, IGBT, SJ MOSFETs, and GaN. This session outlines how these technologies are applied in demanding automotive use cases such as traction inverters, onboard chargers, DC-DC converters, and e-compressors, with emphasis on switching performance and system-level optimization.
Smart Switching and Zonal Control: Enabling Reliable EV Architectures (onsemi)
11:30 CEST
Presenters: Jon Harper
Onsemi introduces Smart Switches designed for modern zonal controllers that replace traditional fuse-based architectures. The session explains how these devices enhance safety through current monitoring and predictive diagnostics, while supporting centralized vehicle control using the 10BASE-T1S Remote Control Protocol and optimized low-power operation.
Powering Efficiency: Solving EV Design Challenges with Nexperia (Nexperia)
02:00 PM CEST
Presenter: Mark Rhene
Nexperia presents its broad portfolio of power semiconductors designed to address space, efficiency, and reliability challenges in EV systems. Solutions span onboard chargers, battery management systems, and DC-DC converters, supported by power discretes, MOSFETs, IGBTs, wide bandgap devices, and analog control technologies.
Intelligent Power Devices for Evolving Automotive Architectures (ROHM)
03:00 PM CEST
Presenter: Shimpei Satomi, Arnold Degamo
This session focuses on ROHM’s Intelligent Power Device (IPD) lineup tailored to evolving EV architectures. These devices support high- and low-side switching across multiple applications, offering built-in diagnostic and protection features that enable safe, flexible, and efficient automotive power designs.
Speakers
Automotive Electrification Solutions Marketing Manager for BL AAES
NXP
More than 20 years experience through the industry – Holding Electronics engineering degree (1999) as well as Toulouse Business school master’s degree (2010)
Marketing
Renesas
After different roles in development and application support in the last 20 years – most of the time in Power – He is now in a marketing position representing our Power Portfolio.
Principal Engineer-Application
Microchip
Cormac Harrington has over 20 years’ experience in the Semiconductor industry, and has worked with Microchip for the last 5 years. His main area of expertise is real-time control for digital power applications.
Senior Technical Staff Engineer-Applications
Microchip
Franz Thalheimer has over 25 years experience in the Semiconductor industry. Before Franz worked 10 years in industry in product development.
With Microchip has worked since 20 years as Field Apps supporting customer mainly on motorcontrol and digital power and as Apps engineer working on reference/demo designs for digital power.
Automotive Marketing Manager
STMicroelectronics
An expert in automotive Smart Power products based on ST's proprietary VIPower™ and BCD technologies, Michael LUETT has extensive experience working with engineers and helping them find the best solutions for their designs.
Member of Technical Staff in the Analog and Mixed-Signal Group
onsemi
Jon Harper is Member of Technical Staff at onsemi in the Analog and Mixed-Signal Group. He has over thirty years of experience working on the market development and definition of automotive and industrial power and mixed-signal products in marketing and applications roles at onsemi, Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor. He has BSc/MEng degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Bath and an MBA from the University of Warwick. He is based in Munich.
Field Application Engineer
Nexperia
Mark Rhene is Nexperia's Field Application Engineer for OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in South East Germany. Mark holds an engineering degree with specialty in Micro- and Nanoelectronics from RWTH Aachen University.
Automotive Intelligent Power Devices
ROHM
In 2015, joined ROHM HQ in Japan and worked on LSI design for logic and analog circuit.
Since 2023, serving as a Product Marketing Engineer at ROHM semiconductor GmbH, supporting the European region.
Automotive DC-DC-Converter ICs
ROHM
My name is Arnold Degamo, Field Application Engineer at Rohm Semiconductor GmbH, responsible for DCDC converters and LDO's.
Following my studies in Electronics Engineering, I worked in Automotive Tier 1 supplier for more than 12 years as Hardware Development Engineer with focus on Body Control Modules, Lighting, Infotainment and Displays.
Worldwide Automotive and European Analog Marketing Manager
Diodes Incorporated
Simon Ramsdale has 38 years of experience in the semiconductor industry working in applications, product marketing, product definition of Analog signal chain and power management products.
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