Category: Power, Energy, Lighting

Power, Energy, Lighting

  • Meet You in Brussels?

    Imec, the Belgian research centre for nanoelectronics has an annual programme of Technology Forums. (Fora?) The European Flagship Forum is scheduled for the end of…

  • Detailed RTL Power Analysis

    If you want to minimize the power consumption of your system, you can’t wait until you have your design reduced to gates. Yeah, you can…

  • Benchmarks for IoT Edge Nodes

    If you’ve been in the market for microprocessor benchmarks, then you’re probably familiar with EEMBC. Their most recent benchmark suite, ULPbench, was designed to compare…

  • Sensor Hub Power Drops Again

    QuickLogic is back, pushing power numbers down again. They’re now touting what they say is the lowest-power sensor hub, at 75 µW, with their ArcticLink…

  • Wireless Phone Charging Without the Extra Antennas

    About a year ago, when we were in the wake of numerous wireless power announcements, we discussed a technology called “Cota” from a company called…

  • Switching Power Supplies Revamped

    A big change is coming to a power supply near you. At least, that’s what Semitrex is promising with their new TRONIUM family of power…

  • Rezence Wireless Charging Takes Steps

    There have been a couple of developments in the wireless power world over the last couple months, both involving the new Rezence standard. You may…

  • More than Memory

    I don’t know about you, but when I hear “Spansion,” I hear memory. But there’s more going on there these days than FLASH. I talked…

  • Towards Smaller Solar Inverters

    Inverters are getting smaller. We’re talking here about the inverters used in solar cells to convert the DC that they generate into AC for the…

  • Calxeda Isn’t Dead Yet

    Remember Calxeda? The chipmaker that was going to do super power-efficient server chips based on ARM? Well, that company went under a year ago, but…