In last month’s blog, we discussed and compared various power techniques. A quick recap of these power techniques is shown in figure 1. Selecting between them is often quite challenging. These ...

Engineers are accustomed to making tradeoffs when designing products — faster and more power-hungry, or slower and lower-power; expensive and durable, or cheap and disposable; and so on. The ongoing ...

Low-power IC design techniques have been around for quite a while. They weren’t always required, though they were nice to have. The rapid growth of the consumer market for battery-powered devices has ...

Airloom is pitching low-profile wind turbines as a way to ease the growing energy strain caused by AI-driven data centers.

With this year’s Applied Power Electronics Conference now in full gear, those visiting the show, taking place at the Georgia World Congress Exhibition Hall in Atlanta, can avail themselves of dozens ...

Optimization of power consumption is one of the biggest challenges IC designers face today. Although power optimization has always been critical for battery-operated designs, the continued growth of ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Praesidian Capital, a leading provider of senior and subordinated capital for small and mid-sized businesses, announced today that it agented a $22.4 million senior debt ...

In the last blog, Low-power Hydra, I discussed how power has become a challenge to many designers, even at advanced process nodes. I also recommended that designers should start looking at the design ...