125nA Supervisory Circuits Extend Battery Life in Portable Electronics Nov 12, 2009
The MAX16056-MAX16059, therefore, have a negligible impact on the application's power budget, effectively reducing system shutdown current to zero. Altogether, these supervisors can increase battery life by several months in low-power applications. (Primezone Releases)
ARM CTO: power surge could create 'dark silicon' Oct 23, 2009
But those devices will only use a third as much energy as today's parts, leaving engineers with a power budget so pinched they may be able to activate only nine percent of those transistors, Muller said. Researchers are working on a variety of techniques so power limits do not strangle future designs, Muller said. (EETimes)
SiGe experts push CMOS envelope for Light Peak transceivers Oct 9, 2009
"But to get to the $10 price point you need for consumer devices, we had to go with standard CMOS, then work hard to meet the specifications for a 1012 bit error rate and a 135-milliwatt-per-channel power budget.". Intel is working with industrial partners like Ensphere for the various components of its optical interconnection technology. (EETimes)
Projecting DSC futures Aug 6, 2009
I ran into analyst Tim Bajarin, principal of consulting firm at CES. He said the modules he has seen to date are too dim and called for devices that can generate more than 10 lumens and still fit into the power budget for a cellphone component, which typically is limited to a couple hundred milliwatts. So is the projector camera a flash-in-the-pan that will come and go like bell bottom pants or the next big thing that will be in all DSCs someday. (EETimes)
Soldiers Turn A March Into A Charge Jul 28, 2009
Another key part of the project will be adapting radio equipment to run on a reduced power budget. The new style low power radios will run on standby , only boosting up to full power when an important message is received or a transmission is required. (Science Daily)
Budgeting for Hard Power: Defense and Security Spending Under Barack Obama Jul 3, 2009
Text hiding to spacing. WASHINGTON, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Even as the global economic crisis consumes President Obama's attention -- and the nation's resources -- he still must focus on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the situation in Pakistan. (PR Newswire)
FPGA startup crunch: SiliconBlue looks to break new ground May 5, 2009
Low-end FPGAs have traditionally been unable to hit the cost and power budget requirements to play in the market for handheld consumer products. But SiliconBlue claims among other things to offer the first single-chip SRAM FPGA, the world's lowest-power FPGAs, small form factors and a product that costs $1 per part in high volumes. (EETimes)
How to make your storage greener Apr 1, 2009
Since storage accounts for 26% of the overall power budget, it's important that storage administrators approach going green with straightforward cost-benefit analysis. According to the EPA, data centers in 2006 accounted for 1. (Search Storage)
