Technology
Computer & Storage Innovations - Battery-free, FPGA-based RAID cache solution
Increased processing and storage demands are challenging the ways of maintaining data integrity in data centers and now designers have to look for more cost-effective, alternative approaches to battery-backed data recovery systems. Enter the RAID adapter.
Smart drivers reduce energy use and PCB clutter in portable electronic systems
Small portable electronic systems such as mobile telephones, personal media players (PMPs), digital still cameras (DSCs), digital video cameras (DVCs), portable medical equipment (PME), and global-positioning systems (GPS) continue to evolve and add features with each generation. As they do, their peripheral-circuit requirements have become more similar in part because their power sources, ports, and MMIs (man-machine interfaces) draw on similar technologies.
Advanced integration PFC/PWM combo solution for high efficiency PC power
This article from Fairchild will explore a semiconductor solution for power supplies that consists of boost PFC and dual-forward PWM with very few external components to achieve versatile protections /compensation.
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Design-for-the-Environment
Designing intelligent smart grid systems that promote energy efficiency
Low-power analog, mixed-signal, and RF building blocks are needed to transform the power-grid plans into reality
New power semiconductors cut data center energy
With the massive toll on energy use that data centers are showing today, the need to find solutions to manage this energy use is essential. Find out one solution using power semiconductors.
Of Windmills and Recording Studios
Windmills are cost more than a $1 million often requiring maintenance to go with their size and volatile nature. This article describes machine monitoring systems in wind turbines, how the requirements for a music studio network are similar to a turbine's monitoring system and how Firewire can been used to create a maintenance system for turbines.
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Investment and Business
Cisco debuts power management initiative
Cisco Systems will debut a broad energy management initiative leveraging its prowess in Ethernet switching, aiming to extend its EnergyWise software to cover everything from Internet Protocol phones and Wi-Fi access points to PCs and building controls.
Fuel vaporization could boost gas mileage, cut emissions
Piggyback electronics and an add-on "vapor chamber" could be used to increase the mileage of existing automobile and truck engines by almost one-third while lowering emissions.
Calculating the Carbon Return on Investment
Many companies are skeptical of carbon offsets, and for good reason. But high-quality carbon offsets based on "additionality" provide value for companies who are striving for carbon neutrality.
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Operations and Compliance
Carbon footprint labeling: Are you ready for it?
Pending regulations in Europe for a carbon footprint label on every product means that it's not enough to inform consumers your electronics product's power consumption level. You need to tell them the quantity (in grams) of carbon-dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing, transporting and recycling of your product.
Seven hard lessons on writing a grant proposal
What I learned in my ten-day marathon applying for an economic stimulus grant for smart grid training.
Enable greener data centers with SFP+ Direct Attach Copper
Given a move towards energy efficient data centers and higher bandwidth applications, small form factor, low power, low latency and low cost interconnects are more critical. Here's a case for SFP+ Direct Attach as an optimal solution for short reach 10 G interconnects.
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Supply Base
PV Forecast: Rising demand, lower costs enable higher margins
After a highly cyclical 2009, most segments of the solar industry are looking at a bright 1H 2010 with profit margins heading towards 20 per cent. After that, incentive policies will determine the timing of the PV next cycle.
Wirelessly Monitoring Temperature in Multiple Rooms for an Energy Efficient Home
Energy efficiency is a hot topic in today's energy crisis discussion. With recent technology advancements in energy efficient technologies, new ultra-low power microcontrollers (MCUs) are helping to reduce overall energy consumption while also creating a cost effective solution for wireless applications.
Managing the Achilles Tendon of Environmental Compliance — Supplier Management
Balu Sharma, from SupplierSoft, provides a how-to on integrating environmental compliance into your supply chain process, and, in particular, how to manage your suppliers to ensure that your manufacturing facility becomes, and stays, "green".
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Green SupplyLine's Green Electronics section covers the technology and business of the broadly defined clean-tech sector. This includes reporting on the latest technology breakthroughs in renewable energy, design-for-the-environment issues, investment, market research, and business developments, plus supply chain, products, and much more.
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