Efficiency Updates
Green transistors promise greener pastures for IC power consumption
Integrated circuits (ICs) consume significant amounts of power, so much so that the overall power that ICs account for has become an international problem....
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Call for papers: Energy harvesting system developer’s event
Darnell’s fourth-annual nanoPower Forum (nPF ’10), to be hosted in Santa Ana, Calif., May 17 to 19, has evolved and expanded to become one of the industry’s leading energy harvesting system developer’s events....
Find green jobs on a green-job map
Clean-tech job seekers can search an online map for current openings at clean-tech companies. ...
Product Briefs
LED flash driver improves picture quality in mobile phones
The AS3645 LED flash driver from austriamicrosystems is an inductive, ultra small, high-efficiency single/dual LED flash driver that offers 25% higher output current than existing equivalents. ...
Brushed dc motor reference design adds capabilities
A new Brushed DC Motor Control with CAN Reference Design Kit (RDK-BDC24) and a module (MDL-BDC24) are immediately available from Texas Instruments Inc., and improve on previous brushed dc motor designs by providing additional variable speed control capabilities....
Software helps designers choose power supply capacitors
AVX Corp., a manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has enhanced its free SpiCalci Software that guides designers to select the proper switch mode power supply (SMPS) capacitor to match application requirements....
LED power supplies feature dimming control
To support the increasing industrial, commercial, and residential applications for LED lighting, Power Partners Inc. introduces the PIL40U-C Series of LED power supplies, which provide 40 W in a compact, IP66 waterproof case....
Basics of Energy Efficiency
The Switch to Switched Reluctance
A quest for energy efficiency has fostered development of switched reluctance motors that are inherently simple and can supply variable speeds....
Green Technology: How to power an energy-efficient light
New lamps are more efficient, but what about the electronics? Designers need to learn a few new tricks about driving LEDs and CFLs....
