Texas Instruments announced an agreement with Power-One, which expands the market for TI's analog and digital power management products that support the PMBus protocol. The non-exclusive Field of Use license agreement for Power-One's digital power technology patents will benefit original equipment manufacturers who use TI's point-of-load controllers. The license also extends to TI power modules, but not to other merchant power supplies using TI controllers.

TI offers several power management controllers that support PMBus, an open standard digital power communications interface that allows the configuring, control and monitoring of power systems. For example, the four-output, multi-phase UCD9240 and dual-output UCD9220 power system controllers are fully configurable via an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) for monitoring, control and management for DC/DC point-of-load power conversion.