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Energy Conservation and Sustainable Design
One of the most interesting trends in the electronics industry today is the movement towards designing products in an environmentally friendly way.
Buzzwords such as Carbon Neutral, Sustainable Design and Eco-design have recently entered the vocabulary of designers and in the near future, these concepts may become as important as performance and cost are now. This article provides a general overview into energy conservation in the electronic design environment and provides insight into ways it is affecting new technology.
Reaping the Rewards of Energy Harvesting with ALD
Energy harvesting (EH) is the process of capturing and accumulating energy from an energy source as energy from it becomes available; storing that energy for a period of time, and conditioning it into a form that can be used later, for instance to operate a microprocessor within its operating limits.
This article looks at a new range of EH modules from Advanced Linear Devices designed to provide a complete EH solution for those designing systems with remote sensors.
Making the Circuit Protection Connection
Because of their complex microelectronics, flat-screen TVs are extremely sensitive to transient over voltages such as ESD.
ESD pulses can travel from the terminal via the data and voltage-supply leads to the circuit board, potentially destroying the board or the components on it. This article introduces a 0402 series Ceradiode designed to combat ESD surges in flat screen equipment.
Driving Performance through Energy Efficiency with Freescale
Electronics products manufacturers say that achieving raw performance is no longer their number one issue – it’s now “performance within an energy budget”.
As semiconductor content increases with each new generation of applications, the semiconductor manufacturer’s contribution to application energy consumption tends to increase accordingly. Freescale has several initiatives designed to minimize static and dynamic power in the company’s microcontrollers and this article takes a look at some of these solutions.
Efficient Power to Peak Performance from National
In modern electronic design, power is a commodity that is finite.
Additionally, much of the power that runs electronics ends up as waste heat which provides no useful work. This article looks at National Semiconductors PowerWise technology, designed to save power consumption, both in single ICs and also when those ICs work together to give a complete power management solution.
Efficient Use of Electricity in the Home from Power Integrations
Consumer electronic products continue to burn many watts while they lie idle in standby mode.
However, regulatory agencies around the world are putting increasingly strict energy efficiency guidelines and regulations into place and these bodies are shifting from asking for voluntary compliance to imposing mandatory implementation of the standards. This article looks at how Power Integrations’ EcoSmart technology enables a SMPS design to operate with much higher efficiency when in standby and no-load conditions.
Reduce System Power Consumption with Charge Pumps with TI
For many portable-power applications, the power consumed during shutdown mode is more critical than power consumed while active.
In some applications, measurements are made, calculations are performed, and the result is displayed on a LCD or stored in memory for future retrieval. This article shows how Texas Instruments’ (TI) TPS3619 allows the battery to supply power directly to a microprocessor when the power supply is disabled, saving system power consumption in low-power mode.
From AC to IC: New Demands on Power Supply Designs from Murata PS
IC manufacturers are developing smaller and faster devices that require extremely low voltages and high currents.
These advances place new demands on the designers of power supplies – demands that are ever more technically challenging and necessitate different solutions to those that have been delivered in the past. As a result, it is more important than ever to carefully consider every element of the equipment power architecture – from the AC to IC. This article investigates the latest trends, technologies and expectations for power supplies.
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