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Reducing energy cost of intra-chip communications

Saving size, weight in avionics, military or space power distribution systems

Energy harvesting – Design archive

Understanding low outgassing adhesives

New generation RISC processing power - Green technology engenders new business opportunities

Researchers claim low-cost solar cells based on abundant metals

Power device consideration for optimized design of LED power supply

Micropelt raises funds to expand energy harvest work

Case Study: Determining root cause of damaging high-voltage transients

Power supply solutions for flat-screen TVs

Simplified luminaire design with LED modules

LED Focus

Flicker and dimming challenge LED lamp design

Vibration energy harvesting for wireless sensor networks: Assessments and perspectives

Product How-To: Taking control of requirements specification for smart energy embedded systems

LED drivers for automotive applications

Bridging energy harvesting wireless sensor networks to TCP/IP

Case study: Designed for space

Product How-To: LED arrays are establishing themselves

OneLED - Waterproof LEDs advance design of outdoor displays

Precise control and regulation of LED colors for lighting design

Latest radiation hardened power management products solve new design challenges

World on cusp of EV tipping point, says Tesla CTO

Energy harvesting & battery pack protection from shunt charger IC systems

Multi-cores tackle human interface

Liquid cooled LED arrays as bright as 30 headlights

U.S. levies low tariffs on China solar panels

Protecting PoE systems from lightning surges and other electrical hazards

Global solar PV market up 40% in 2011

Intelligent lighting controller measures ambient light and tracks time

SmartEnergy Design Features

Reducing energy cost of intra-chip communications

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Saving size, weight in avionics, military or space power distribution systems

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Energy harvesting – Design archive

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EMC Basics #15: Use gaskets to seal and solve leaky RF seam problems

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Teardown Report: Chevy Volt's electronic secrets

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Understanding low outgassing adhesives

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New generation RISC processing power - Green technology engenders new business opportunities

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Project e-smart, Pt. 2: Vehicle controls, modeling, and simulations

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Project e-smart, Pt. 1: Students convert Smart car into an EV

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Power device consideration for optimized design of LED power supply

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Technical Papers

Driving innovation in energy efficiency and low power

Radiation Hardened CMOS Technologies using Buried Power Grids

Current Sense Amplifier Performance Comparison: Touchstone TS1100 vs. Maxim MAX9634

Calculate the LED Lifetime Performance in Optocouplers to Predict Reliability

Integrate Protection with Isolation in Home Renewable Energy Systems

Courses and Webinars

Power Architecture® Solutions for Smart Energy market

Harness your Power with Microsemi Photovoltaic Solutions

Latest Battery Technology for Portable Devices

Connectivity & Control for Industrial or Renewable Energy Applications

Fundamentals of Energy Harvesting

Teardowns

Good vibrations for energy harvesting

CFL and LED lamps: White light in a 'green' world

Bluetooth headset turns to SUN and goes green

Shedding light on solar cell technology

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Reference Designs

Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Products

MIPS introduces new Aptiv generation of processor cores

Second gen EV/hybrid charging connector released

TDK rolls out extended life capacitor series

C&K launches IP67-sealed tactile switch for smart metering

Voltage references combine ultra-low noise, high accuracy

CS Series LED linear luminaire cuts energy consumption 40-50%

ST’s SPIRIT1 wireless transceiver cuts power budget 50% in smart meter apps

MOSFETs feature high-voltage stripe technology

Innovative IC can't trap lightning, but can let you know it's coming

eASIC's chips provide 3X efficiency increase for supercomputer

SiC JFET delivers high speed switching in micro inverters

VIA Labs VL812 USB 3.0 Hub Controller features low power, low cost

Holt’s HI-4850 transceiver complies with RTCA/DO-160G

Energy-measurement AFE integrates two 24-bit ADCs

Xilinx unveils Vivado Design Suite for the next decade of ‘All-Programmable’ devices

CEL modules claim best-in-class ZigBee performance

austriamicrosystems launches ambient light sensor line

Single-channel, low-side gate drivers replace discretes

Digital power controller targets high efficiency, isolated power supplies

Low-voltage motor drivers target battery-powered applications

Commentary

"Hi, I’m your data; can you hear me now?"

Bill Schweber

Extracting insight from mounds of data may benefit from using old techniques

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Something smells

Carolyn Mathas

Is this cool, or what? As you know, sensors are increasingly taking over our five senses in an ever-growing number of applications.

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Industrial control systems—Thwarting attacks

Carolyn Mathas

The Department of Homeland Security put feelers out to other governments in the hope of bolstering the safety of industrial control systems (ICS) and created a venue to brainstorm solutions.

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Autonomous cars: Sooner than we think?

Rick DeMeis

In the short term, vehicles will be able to take over many driving functions—but full autonomy may be farther down the road.

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The Prague Astronomical Clock – A testimony to timeless quality

Carolyn Mathas

Last Sunday at noon I had the good fortune of being in Prague at the Old Town Hall, site of the Prague Astronomical Clock.

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Debugging the case of the self-powered LED

Bill Schweber

We've all had this happen: the problem is not actually a problem

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" I've always felt that system-level debugging is among the most difficult of all engineering ...

Recent Comments

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What were they thinking: copyrighting APIs
IIRC the reasoning behind Sun copyrighting the API was an attempt to prevent the Java platform ...
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Circuit board layout guidelines for Class-D amplifiers
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Chevy Volt flap: What's the big deal?

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Travel Nightmares: A bad day for an interview

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Thunder in the valley

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News, Analysis, and Opinion

Applied to cut jobs, move solar manufacturing to Asia

Infineon, Fuji agree on HybridPACK 2 automotive power module specs

Toshiba backs LED firm Bridgelux

Nvidia upgrades Tesla, eyes cloud gaming

AT&T, Q’comm start next battle of home nets

Too soon to count U.S. out of solar market

Researchers claim low-cost solar cells based on abundant metals

Micropelt raises funds to expand energy harvest work

Heliatek pushes organic solar cell efficiency higher

Neul launches 'white-space' smart metering in Cambridge

LDK Solar has cut more than 5,000 jobs this year

Standards effort seeks to put a charge in EV deployment

ISO/IEC wireless standard optimised for ultra-low power consumption and energy harvesting

Pilot project to focus on bi-directional data link between electric vehicles and the power grid

SunPower to take charge of more than $50M for plant closure

NXP today: 'Practically a Chinese company'

Emcore wins $6M contract to design solar panels for spacecraft

First Solar to slash 2,000 jobs

Flicker and dimming challenge LED lamp design

Science & Engineering Festival coming April 28, 29

 

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The SmartEnergy DesignLine is edited by Anne-Françoise Pelé who also edits the EE Times Military & Aerospace DesignLine.

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