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
Tiny, efficient converters support portable electronics
Texas Instruments Inc. introduces two highly efficient 2-A step-down dc/dc converters for portable electronics applications....
DC/DC converters deliver high-efficiency power
The BEI15 series of isolated, wide input bipolar dc/dc converters from Murata Power Solutions Inc. offers a small footprint solution for high-current applications in mobile and battery-powered products, test equipment, and telecoms and wireless designs....
Ac-dc power supply offers efficient no-load power consumption
CUI Inc’s power line, V-Infinity, announces the release of the VOF-80, a low cost, open frame ac-dc power supply....
Switch-on-a-chip ICs offer power savings and tiny footprint
Micrel Inc. announces the KSZ8873/KSZ8863 series of highly integrated 3-port switch-on-a-chip ICs offering a very small footprint....
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....
