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.
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.
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.
Intelligent Interleaving: improving energy efficiency in AC-DC power supplies
From Fairchild Semiconductor, a how-to on improving energy efficiency in your power supply design using the FAN9612 Interleaved Dual Boundary Conduction Mode PFC controller.
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.
Solar sector presents new EMS opportunities
Arthur Tan, president and CEO of Philippines-based Integrated Microelectronics Inc., provides his perspective on the opportunity provided by the solar industry to EMS companies across the world.
Achieving high efficiency with power switches
This how-to describes the general features of the asymmetric PWM half-bridge converters with current doubler and synchronous rectifier. In addition, one example with some experimental results, is shown using FSFA-series, Fairchild's Green Power Switches for asymmetric-controlled topologies.
PRODUCT HOW-TO: Optimize power consumption with efficient single cell battery voltage conversion
Using the ATtiny3U MCU to build a smart battery management subsystem to achieve efficient sing-cell voltage conversion using multiple current modes.
Data centers headed for greener pastures
The semiconductor landscape is being transformed by a rapidly increasing focus on energy-efficiency for the data center environment. Today's action words for data center efficiency are 'power savings' and this article will explain why the future makes memory's contribution that much more important.
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