LiCORE provides comprehensive support throughout the entire power electronic product life cycle, including consulting, early research and conceptualization, design, prototyping, development, validation, manufacturing, testing, integration, verification, precertification, and maintenance.

Services of LiCORE

Research

• Conducting thorough investigations into existing and innovative converter designs and control methods to identify optimal solutions.
• Deliverables: State-of-the-art report about topologies and control strategies.

Conceptualization of converter development

• Developing initial concepts and frameworks for new converter projects, ensuring feasibility and alignment with client requirements.
• Deliverable: route map document.

Design

• Detailed planning and design of each phase of the converter project, from initial sketches to detailed schematics.
• CAD: MATLAB®, PSIM, LTSpice, Mathcad, Altium designer, KiCAD, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, national Instruments.
• Deliverables: Schematics, standard C code scripts, simulation files, and design reports.

Development

• Building and refining converters within Model-in-the-loop (MIL), Software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and power-in-the-loop (PIL) ecosystems to ensure they meet design specifications and performance criteria.
• CAD: Typhoon HIL.
• Deliverables: Digital twins, system architecture design, system design, and firmware design files.

Prototyping

• Creating and testing prototypes using advanced simulation and real-time testing environments to ensure functionality and performance, such as SIL, HIL, and PIL.
• PCB assembling
• Deliverables: PCB manufacturing files, and assembled prototypes.

Testing & Validation

• Conducting comprehensive testing in a laboratory setting to verify the final product's performance under various conditions.
• Deliverables: Functional diagnostics and thermal reports.

Pre-certification

• Preparing the converter for formal certification by conducting pre-certification tests and assessments to ensure compliance with relevant standards on certified laboratories.
• Deliverables: Electrical Safety, EMI and EMC testing report.

Electronic Manufacturing

• Overseeing the production process to ensure that converters are manufactured to the highest quality standards.
• Deliverables: List of providers, supply chain, and manufacturing files.

Product integration

• Ensuring seamless integration of the converter into the client's existing systems or applications.
• Deliverables: End customer product prototype.

Product maintenance

• Providing ongoing support and maintenance services to ensure the converter operates reliably throughout its lifecycle.

LiCORE in STMicroelectronics ecosystem

LiCORE is a strategic ally to ST on fast-prototyping power switches (IGBT, SiC, GaN) and complementary products, such as microcontrollers, ADC, OPAMs, sensors, etc.