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In addition to a world-class program offering over 500 high-quality technical papers APEC will offer a slate of 18 Professional Education Seminars on Sunday and Monday. In addition there will be a series of 15 Industry Sessions where important and timely current industry developments will be presented. The Micro-Mouse Contest will be held Monday evening and the very popular and interactive RAP Sessions will be held after the exhibition area closes on Tuesday. The Wednesday evening Gala will provide an informal environment for food and entertainment.
In summary APEC 2016 will provide:
March may seem a long way off, but it’s not too early to start planning to attend APEC 2016. Be sure to put the dates on your calendar and in next year’s budget. Call for Industry Sessions Now Open So make your plans now and come to Long Beach and be a part of this exceptional event – truly The Premier Event in Applied Power.
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The Board of Directors relies on the inputs generated at the Annual Planning Meetings to identify, consider and select programs for the following year that will bring benefits to the PSMA membership. For example, initiatives generated at previous Planning Meetings have resulted in the Power Technology Roadmap Reports, the Power Supply in Package and Power Supply on Chip project and workshops, the Energy Efficiency Database project and the 3D Power Packaging project. This year’s meeting will begin with a brief review of the year to date accomplishments and a summary of ongoing activities by Ernie Parker, Chairman of the PSMA. This will be followed by an update of the six-quarter financial forecast and brief status reports from the active PSMA committees. Most of the meeting will feature an open forum to introduce and discuss possible special projects, initiatives, and priorities for the coming months. All PSMA members are encouraged to provide inputs, even if they cannot attend the meeting. Please email your suggestions to power@psma.com and they will be considered and included in the discussions. In the coming months, the PSMA Marketing Committee will summarize the results of the meeting and prioritize the proposals in order to determine which projects and initiatives should be included in the focus for the next year. All members and guests attending are invited to remain after the Planning Meeting to participate in the September meeting of the Board of Directors, which will take place immediately following. After the Board Meeting, interested individuals are invited to tour the exhibit area space in the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center and the meeting room facilities planned for APEC 2016. If you do plan to attend these meetings, please e-mail the Association Office at power@psma.com. The APEC 2016 Technical Program Committee will meet the following day, Sunday September 27, to select the technical papers and to organize the technical sessions, professional education seminars, rap sessions, and industry presentations for APEC 2016 in March. PSMA is a co-sponsor of APEC and all members are invited to participate in this important activity. To make your room reservations at the Hyatt call (888) 421-1442. Please reference the IEEE APEC Planning Meeting to receive the group rate of $129.00 USD plus taxes. You may also book online: https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=14048511. Room block reservations are available until September 4th. We look forward to seeing many of you at these important meetings.
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 ob White, founder and Chief Engineer of Embedded Power Labs, is well known in the power supply industry. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and contributor to technical working groups. We recently spoke with Bob about Embedded Power Labs.
Q: Tell us how Embedded Power Labs got started. A: In 2009 I was working for a startup developing a new lighting technology. It was very interesting work but in September 2009 they ran low on funding. They closed up operations in the United States and moved the work to the Czech Republic. I was tired of getting laid off and watching my job go overseas so I decided to go to work for myself. Q: How has Embedded Power Labs been able to help its customer succeed? A: Right out of college I worked designing power supplies at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). At DEC I was not just given a specification; I had to work with the system designers, from the CPU and memory engineers to the storage system engineers to the mechanical and thermal engineers, to develop a specification and design that met the needs of the entire system. This really taught me how to look at the whole system and find the best solution for that system. Q: You are a one person operation. What kind of tools and resources do you have to solve your customer’s problems? A: One of the key advantages I have over other consultants is a well-equipped laboratory. Quite simply, eBay has been very good to me. I have GHz bandwidth oscilloscopes, mixed signal oscilloscopes for doing embedded systems work, all the various probes needed for power electronics work, programmable ac power sources, ac power analyzers, Agilent digital multimeters, electronic loads, milliohmeters, impedance analyzers, and more. There is a fairly complete listing of my lab equipment on the Embedded Power Labs website. I also have the software tools needed for power electronics and digital design work. For power electronic simulation my first choice is SIMPLIS although I also use SPICE based simulators. For control design I have MATLAB, Simulink, and toolboxes like Control Design and Fixed Point Design. I also use Mathcad extensively for engineering calculations. For automating testing on bigger projects, I use Labview. For embedded designs I can work with most types of microcontrollers although I have the most experience with Microchip Technology’s PIC and dsPIC devices. Here is the Denver area, I have several other consultants whom I can call upon if needed. One is another power electronics consultant with extensive experience in aerospace. I also work with a mechanical engineer who is expert in thermal design. For PCB designs, I often subcontract with a local designer who has an Altium license. I also have a great relationship with a power supply company in northern Colorado that specializes in low volume, high mix manufacturing of industrial and military power supplies. If a client has a specialized power converter design that can’t be met off the shelf, we can work together to get that converter designed and manufactured. Q: What can you tell us about recent projects you have worked on? A: Almost every project I do is under a confidentiality agreement that prevents me from naming the client or discussing the project in any detail. Without breaking those agreements, some of my recent work has been:
Other work has been designing the power electronics for an inductive charger for electric vehicles, advising a startup with an advanced digital control technology, consulting with wide bad gap power semiconductor startups, architecting a digital control IC for an analog IC company that was considering entering the digital control arena, creating SIMPLIS models of digital control ICs, writing application notes for digital power applications, and doing stress analysis for a NASA project. Q: You mentioned expert witness work. Tell us what you can about that. A: My first involvement with expert witness work was when I worked for DEC. I ended up testifying in the Court of International Trade in New York City as a witness for DEC in a lawsuit involving the customs classification of imported power supplies. DEC won that case against the US Customs Service and saved millions of dollars in duties. Later, when I worked for Artesyn/Emerson, I was very involved in the Power One-Artesyn lawsuit over the PMBus. I found that so interesting that I applied to, and was accepted, law school. Eventually I decided that while I would be a good patent lawyer, I loved being an engineer too much to give that up for law school. Expert witness work really does require a different kind of thinking. There are big differences between an engineer’s view and the law’s view. Learning how to view patents from the legal point of view was a challenge but I have worked with excellent attorneys who taught me well. Even with the need to put on the legal thinking hat, I enjoy expert witness work and look forward to doing more of it in the future. Q: Are all of your clients in the Unites States? A: No. I have clients from Europe to China. Q: Are there any projects that do not interest you? A: I get requests from time to time to design ac-dc power supplies. I am able to do this but when the potential client sees the estimated cost for my time and prototypes, they generally choke. And that does not even include the cost for product safety and EMI compliance testing. I try to help these clients understand that unless the production is for tens of thousands of units or the requirements are really unique, it does not make sense to design a custom ac-dc power supply. There are so many off-the-shelf and configurable power supplies available in the market that most every need can be met. The unit price might be a bit higher than they initially budgeted but there is much less engineering cost, less development time, and much lower risk. Some of these inquiries become opportunities to use my system and applications engineering experience to help the client specify, procure, and qualify an off-the-shelf solution that gets their end product to market on time. Q: Tell us about your involvement with the PSMA and other professional organizations. A: Throughout my career I have found volunteering with the PMSA, IEEE, and other organizations is hugely rewarding. For the PSMA my main contributions have been many years of involvement in the Power Technology Roadmap committee including writing portions of report, editing the report, and co-chairing the committee. I have been involved in the IEEE for many years. I have twice served as General Chair of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC). Most recently I have been writing a column for the IEEE Power Electronics Society Magazine. I really treasure the professional friends and colleagues I have developed through these volunteer activities. Q: You seem to have done well as a consultant. Would you ever consider working as regular company employee again? A: I never say never and am always willing to have a conversation. If the right opportunity with the right company presented itself, yes, I would give up the business and got to work for someone else. There is a lot to be said for a steady paycheck, but so far no one has put a good enough offer on the table. Q: What would you like to say in conclusion? A: Thank you for this opportunity to introduce Embedded Power Labs to the readers of the PSMA Update. I think my broad range of experience as well as resources such as my laboratory and software tools have enabled me to help my clients succeed. I invite anyone who thinks that Embedded Power Labs can help them to check the company’s website, www.embeddedpowerlabs.com, for more information and how to contact us. Provided by Robert V. White, President and Chief Engineer, Embedded Power Labs
NetPower’s global operations take place in three locations: the Richardson, Texas operations primarily focusing on product marketing, sales and application support, and quick-turn assembly; the R&D center in Shanghai consisting of top-notch veteran designers who are taking the lead in technology and product development; and the full function team in Zhenjiang, China, being the base for cost-effective expansion assuring NetPower’s lasting competitiveness. NetPower’s merits stem from its products and service. NetPower products are highly reliable due to the superior thermal performance. CTO Dr. Huai Wei explains: “While the best achievable efficiency is largely determined by the available power semiconductors, the thermal performance is not exactly the same thing. Proper distribution of the heat sources and effective paths for heat removal are advance considerations in both electrical and mechanical designs, and are essential to market leading products.” As for its service, NetPower’s merits come from its strong technical presence and highly flexible in-house production capability in both US and China.
NetPower is among the few leading vendors supporting the IBA architecture widely adopted in the telecom and networking systems. NetPower’s 40-60V narrow input range quarter brick QBE series offers up to 800W power at 97% efficiency, and its narrow input range eighth brick EBE series offers up to 500W power at 96% efficiency. As the company expands its scale of operation, its products now cover a broad range of input voltages and power levels. In addition to the telecom 2:1 input range products, NetPower now has 4:1 and 8:1 input range converters in encapsulated packages suitable for industrial, automobile, and other high reliability applications. NetPower’s non-isolated POL offerings focus on high power density and high current, ranging from its tiny 12A NKS to its 100A NHT converters. Beside standard products, the company has also been expanding its business in custom solutions. Its mature design platforms enable fast development cycles of highly reliable custom products.
As a long time PSMA member, we are very grateful for all the valuable information such as the technology roadmaps that PSMA has produced. Unlike alliances formed to create market barriers for others, which is bad for the power industry and ultimately self-destructive, organizations such as PSMA and CPES are non-profit in nature and their work benefits the industry’s well-being. We take this opportunity to call for PSMA members’ attention that, while we may be competitors, we should do whatever possible to promote our unique and irreplaceable value for our own business health. Provided by Flora Wu, Director of Marketing, NetPower
 ower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM) and its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary Jazz Semiconductor, Inc. operate under the brand name TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader. TowerJazz is a pure play foundry and manufactures integrated circuits for more than 220 customers worldwide in growing markets such as consumer, automotive, medical, industrial, and aerospace & defense, among others.
TowerJazz offers a broad range of customizable process technologies: integrated power management including BCD and 700V, and its patented Y-Flash, the leading solution for non-volatile memory (NVM), SiGe (RF and High Performance Analog) CMOS image sensor, CMOS, Mixed-Signal CMOS and MEMS capabilities. For global capacity assurance, TowerJazz currently operates six manufacturing facilities on three continents: Fab 1 and Fab 2 (150mm and 200mm) located in Migdal Haemek, Israel, Fab 3 (200mm) located in Newport Beach, California and three additional fabs (two 200mm and one 300mm) through TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Company, Ltd. (TPSCo) located in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
Power technologies available at TowerJazz serve a wide range of markets from mobile, computer and other consumer markets to automotive, industrial and power restricted wearables. TowerJazz offers solutions that enable high integration of the most sophisticated power controls and best in class efficiency for end products to achieve the always needed higher power ratings. TowerJazz’s industry leading Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process is used in complex power management chips, including driver ICs, battery and portable power management, power control for PCs, Class-D audio amplifiers, and other consumer, communications, computing, automotive and industrial applications. TowerJazz power platforms are designed for maximum flexibility, enabling customers to create cost-effective products at any desired level of integration and achieve first-pass success for fast time-to-market. The technologies cover 1.8V to 700V voltage range from low power to high power applications. The integration of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) and digital libraries provides significant differentiation and cost effectiveness for enhanced power management solutions.
The need for smarter usage of available power in all electronic devices drives innovative technologies for use in power management ICs (PMICs). PMICs are functionality rich analog/power circuits with an ability to perform in high power environments while sustaining the high performance necessary in the application. In all aspects of our lives, power is needed and thus there exists the requirement for more efficient processing and delivery of the same. From portable applications like mobile handsets to high power motor drivers, all necessitate intelligent power management techniques and technologies to achieve high efficiencies, ruggedness and the desired footprint. Many of these applications need to utilize different technologies and different flavors of the technologies that are precisely tweaked to the specific application. TowerJazz is dedicated to enabling achievement of the high standards required in power management through its investment in the customized technologies that serve this highly demanding market. TowerJazz, with its breadth of power platforms, is serving various markets from low voltage (up to 60V) to high voltage (up to 700V) and continues to develop more flavors and deliver higher performance technologies. To some degree, there is a standardization of the platforms. Yet, serving various applications requires the flexibility to deliver a variety of flavors of the platforms: positive and negative biasing on the same silicon, various isolation techniques for various application needs, and NVM (Y-Flash) flavors (programming voltages, number or programming cycles), etc. TowerJazz has developed a customer base on all continents with a range of requirements including automotive. Multiple manufacturing sites in Israel, the US and Japan allow for the flexibility of operational management for the highly demanding power management market. Power Management Know How TowerJazz offers comprehensive knowledge of the platform design coupled with application expertise important especially in the space of high currents-high power. Device construction is tilted, tested and qualified for many applications like highly integrated PMICs, AMOLED drivers, high power switching regulators, high voltage motor drivers, LED drivers and alike. Modular technology allows flexibility in the design with respect to the footprint and number of layers used: 5V CMOS, 1.8V CMOS, Y-Flash, high voltage module, thick Al or Cu top metals, and a variety of isolation schemes. Modularity exists in all low voltage (up to 60V) and very high voltage platforms (up to 700V).
What’s next?
TowerJazz is continuously looking to expand its coverage in serving power management customers, and in that effort, it is developing a new SOI platform well-suited for applications requiring high isolation, high integration and robustness ideal for industrial, medical and automotive applications. Integration of extensive digital circuitry, precise analog, and high power output devices will be even more possible through this new technology. For more information on TowerJazz’s current and upcoming power management activities, please contact Marijana Vukicevic, Marketing Director at marijana.vukicevic@towerjazz.com.
Editors Note: We would like to feature your company in a future issue of the Update. Please contact the Association Office for information about how to submit an article for consideration. |
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Up to $40,000 offered to graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in power electronics programs
The recipients will be chosen by the APEC 2016 Award and Grants Committee. Application forms are available at APEC Attendance Travel Award Application. The criteria for this Travel Support reimbursement are:
As part of the application process, students must provide information about their educational institution, degree program, the name of their faculty advisor and a brief description of their career interest and reasons for planning to attend APEC. The application also requires the title and ID number of the accepted paper, as well as the name(s) of co-author(s). |
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A Tool for Current Benchmarking and
The Technology Roadmap is an extensive report that not only projects forecasts of various power supply-related parameters, but also provides essays and presentations on various power supply-related technology topics. It is a multidimensional document that covers a wide spectrum of power supply related subjects in both a quantitative and qualitative manner. It is an anthology of power supply related technologies. At the heart of the Roadmap report are the quantitative trends of important technical parameters such as efficiency, power density, control topologies and many other in four different power supplies. For the 2015 Roadmap Edition, these power supplies are: AC-DC front end, AC-DC external power supplies, isolated DC-DC converters and non-isolated, point of load converters (POLs). These four types of power supplies are selected because they currently represent the majority of product spectrum. They are offered by many power supply companies and widely used in many applications. The parametric trends are time-based and projected out to 2019. This is very useful for learning the trajectory of the power supply technologies for various aspects of product development. Though these are mostly technology related parameters, they are also useful in the marketing of power supplies. From that perspective, the Roadmap provides inputs for future product development and successful business practice. The data and trends included in the Roadmap report are not easily available in the power supply industry, as it mainly consists of many small private companies. The information is generally not publicly or widely available and that can lead to wrong forecasts and computations. For example, not too long ago, during a Server Consortium meeting, some participants were using the baseline efficiency of a front-end power supply at 77 percent, and showed that an efficiency gain of 92 percent would result in "significant saving" in electricity use and resulting carbon emission. It was unknown to many of the participants that the front end power supply efficiency had already reached 88 percent at that time and the gain in efficiency would be of 4 percent instead of 15 percent, as initially forecasted. So the savings in electricity use and carbon emission would be less than predicted. A document like the PSMA Power Technology Roadmap would have come handy in their assumption, methodology and computation. Most participants in this meeting were server manufacturers, university professors and government agency representatives and their assumptions about existing power supply efficiency were arbitrary and not up to date. The PSMA Power Technology Roadmap provides the time relevant objective market information, because the organizers and contributing participants are part of the power supply/electronics industry; the market data is from a wide number of sources directly involved in the respective industries. Interestingly, the 2015 Roadmap also provides some retrospective analysis. An analysis was made of the projected data from previous roadmaps and checked against the current data to see if the projections were on track. For example, they looked at the efficiency projections forecasted in 2010 versus actual efficiency achieved in 2015. It was projected that for a 48 VDC front end power supply, the efficiency in 2015 would be 93 percent, while the actual efficiency in 2015 turned out to be 96 percent. So the projections were pessimistic in this case. Depending on the parameters, some projections were pessimistic and while others were optimistic. But the retrospective analysis provides a deeper understanding of various trends that should be helpful in future forecasting. In that respect, the PSMA 2015 Roadmap is an important report that can provide companies with technology data for benchmarking their current products, and technology trends for strategic planning. In addition to the trend analyses, the PSMA 2015 Roadmap also contains essays and presentations on a wide variety of technology topics including: 3D packaging, power SoCs, additive manufacturing, high frequency magnetics, wireless charging, smart grid, energy storage and smart buildings. The scope of this report is very extensive and can be viewed in the table of contents at: www.psma.com/sites/default/files/uploads/psmaptr2015toc.pdf Producing the biennial Power Technology Roadmap is one of the crowning achievements for PSMA. It is no easy task to organize and energize many participants to volunteer their time and efforts to produce a document that is as complex and comprehensive in a wide variety of power supply related technologies. Participating in this project in a true volunteer spirit as well as a great learning experience for the participants and the industry and is invaluable in understanding the technical evolution and applications of power supplies.
The views expressed in this article are solely of Mohan Mankikar. They do not represent the views of PSMA. Mohan Mankikar has been a part of the power supply industry for over thirty years. An active member of the PSMA since its founding, he had been a board member of the PSMA and currently serves on the Advisory Council. He can be reached at: Micro-Tech Consultants (707) 575-4820 MicroMohan@AOL.com |
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So what has changed? What is the future outlook? And why now? Wireless charging is not a new technology or a new concept – it’s been charging electric toothbrushes for decades, and it has been available in accessory form in the consumer electronics industry for well over five years. However early issues with alignment sensitivity, differences in approach among technologies and alliances (namely the Wireless Power Consortium, the Power Matters Alliance and the Alliance for Wireless Power) and a lack of clarity on the long-term future have so far made device manufacturers reluctant to take the risk. Manufacturers and infrastructure providers need to guarantee the customer will have a positive interaction the first time they use wireless charging in a new product – the worst case scenario is not that the customer has never heard of the technology, but that the first and only time they used it, they had a negative experience. A standoff between infrastructure installations and device implementations also exists. After all, why would a device manufacturer design something that has no real-world purpose? And why would an infrastructure provider pay to build a charge point that no device in the world can use? After years of low-volume shipments, incremental improvements in performance and endless work to raise the profile, the wireless charging market reached critical mass earlier this year with two important product announcements. Flagship product adoption signals the first shift Samsung, the number one selling smart phone manufacturer, integrated dual-mode Qi- and PMA-standard charging into the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge flagship products. Marketing efforts have even highlighted the wireless charging element, helping to drive awareness and demand for the technology. The result is 120 million wireless charging receivers forecast to be shipped to the mobile phone market this year, with Samsung shipments leading the way. Away from the receivers, announcements earlier this year that Starbucks and McDonald’s plan to roll out wireless charging stations in their stores has focused attention on wireless charging in the transmitter market for the hospitality sector. Meanwhile, IKEA’s integration of Qi charging into a range of tables and lamps has again driven up overall awareness of the technology. The long-term effects in consumer behaviour All these announcements will help the market for wireless charging triple in size in 2015 – but it’s the impact on consumer awareness that has a greater long-term impact. This year’s survey was targeted at just over 1,000 consumers across the United Kingdom, United States and China – including the question “have you heard of wireless charging technology?” When IHS asked consumers in 2014 if they had heard of wireless charging technology, only 34 percent of consumers were aware of it; however, in 2015 this number doubled to 76 percent. This increase in awareness will help drive acceptance of the use case for wireless charging, only then turning into demand for the technology. A further positive finding of the survey is that nine out of 10 consumers who have used wireless charging said they were at least “satisfied” with it, suggesting that the wireless charging products available today are already matching consumer needs and expectations. Ninety-percent is effectively the customer retention rate for wireless charging – and any company in the world would be happy with that customer retention rate for any product. Momentum for the future – but with caution The market potential for wireless charging technology right now has never been bigger. Consumers are aware of it, and they are starting to demand the technology. They can now find wireless charging in some of the most popular brands, and customer feedback is overwhelmingly positive. So what could possibly go wrong for wireless charging in the future? Consumers have already identified that they want to see faster charging speeds – and this pressure will only increase, as the wired market moves towards fast-charging solutions. The biggest threat to wireless charging, however, remains constant: the confusion created by all the competing alliances and technologies. Interoperability helps ensure a customer has a positive interaction with the technology, and the move toward dual-mode (Qi and PMA) compliant solutions has helped keep customers happy so far. Dual mode solutions work right now, and IHS expects that by 2019 30 percent of the market will use multi-mode receivers capable of complying with all three standards.
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Power Magnetics @ High Frequency- Solving the Black Magic!
The purpose and focus of the workshop will be to identify the latest improvements in areas of magnetic materials, coil (winding) design, construction and fabrication, evaluation and characterization techniques and modelling and simulation tools so as to target the advancements that are deemed necessary by the participants for power magnetics to meet the technical expectations and requirements of higher application frequencies and emerging topologies that are being driven by continuous advances in circuits topologies, semi-conductor devices driven by new market applications. The target audience for the workshop will be the designers of power magnetic components for use in electronic power converters who find it necessary to implement the most technologically advanced power magnetic components to achieve higher power densities, specific physical aspect ratios such as low profile, higher power efficiencies, improved thermal performance etc., as well as the supply chain for the power magnetics industry ranging from manufacturers of magnetic materials and magnetic structures, fabricators of magnetic components, providers of modelling and simulation software as well as manufacturers of test and characterization equipment. The agenda of the workshop is designed so that there will be keynote presentations by invited speakers followed by question and answer forum addressing the latest trends in:
The keynote presentations will be followed by an interactive session of round robin sequencing of table top displays each addressing specific technical disciplines and capabilities consistent with the workshop agenda. The table top displays will be a combination of e-poster type displays, modelling and simulation demonstrations and measurements of actual magnetic components. Interaction between the attendees and the presenters is highly recommended during this portion of agenda as a segue from the opening keynote presentation and the following structured problem solving session. If anyone would like to participate as a presenter during the round robin display of technical capabilities please contact Matt Wilkowski at mwilkows@altera.com with a description of your proposed technical capabilities topic. The technical disciplines expected to be displayed during the round robin technical capabilities session are as follows:
The third session of the workshop will be a structured problem solving sessions. Three (3) different structured problems of general interest encompassing three (3) different power ranges with each range having it own set of electrical, physical and thermal design requirements specific to a typical application, The facilitator for each structure problem would provide a typical traditional design solution and then interact with the attendees to identify alternative approaches based on leading edge technologies and materials to improve some aspect of the original design requirements whether it be efficiency, physical size, thermal performance, etc., If anyone has an idea for a structured problem that should be addressed during the workshop please contact Matt Wilkowski at the following e-mail address: mwilkows@altera.com . The fourth and final session would be a combination wrap-up session and networking social. The first portion of the session would be identification of items to be addressed by a roadmap for the magnetics industry covering de-facto industry practices and standards and emerging trends as well as both short term goals covering incremental improvements and longer term evolutions that are on the horizon. A white board will be made available during the social networking session to allow participants to record ideas that come about during their informal discussions with their colleagues. The expected registration fee for the workshop is $200 per participant reducing to $150 for PSMA members. More details regarding the agenda for the workshop as well as registration for the workshop will become available on the PSMA website at http://www.psma.com/technical-forums/magnetics/workshop over the next few months. Organizing Committee Provided by Matt Wilkowski, Altera
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WiPDA will cover a broad range of WBG devices related research, from device design and manufacture, to power module packaging, and device applications. Its main topics include:
Tutorials: Four tutorials on state-of-the-art device technology and applications will be offered in the afternoon of November 2nd, the presenters include Professor Johan Kolar, from ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Professor Mark Johnson from the University of Nottingham, U.K., Professor Patrick McCluskey from the University of Maryland, MD, and Zan Huang from Transphorm. Keynote Presentations: Eight keynote presentations, four each on November 3rd and 4th, will constitute the plenary sessions to be held at WiPDA. These talks will be given by prestigious experts from U.S. Federal Agencies, leading companies in the WBG semiconductor industry, and predominant members of academia. The speakers include: Joseph Weimer (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory), Lynn Petersen (Office of Naval Research), Anant Agarwal (U.S. Department of Energy), Ranbir Singh (GeneSiC Semiconductor), Leo Lorenz (European Center for Power Electronics), Hiromichi Ohashi (University of Tokyo), Subhashish Bhattacharya (North Carolina. State University), Isik Kizilyalli (Avogy Inc.), John Shen (Illinois Institute of Technology), and Dr. Ljubisa Stevanovic from GE Global Research, NY. Panel Discussion: A panel discussion will be held in the late morning of Nov 4th, with invited panelists from U.S. Federal Agencies, industry and academia that will share their opinions on the most popular topics related to wide-bandgap devices. NEW Expanded Technical Exhibit: Thanks to a new partnership between the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) an expanded technical exhibit will be part of the WIPDA program in 2015 on November 2nd and 3rd. A limited number of booths will be available, please contact the organizing committee, listed below, for further details. Registration: Advanced registration is encouraged with discounted rate.
Please contact the committee for further details:
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CPSSC’ 2015 will be held in Shenzhen, China on Nov. 6-9, 2015. This year the conference includes 412 papers and will attract over 800 attendees. CPSSC’ 2015 will feature a comprehensive technical program including 8 plenary sessions, 7 tutorials, 40 technical sessions, 4 industry sessions, 10 poster sessions and 40 exhibitors. We warmly welcome you all to CPSSC’ 2015; PSMA members can enjoy special rates on the registration fee. Content Keynote Speakers: Tutorials Exhibition of Power Supply Products CPSSC 2015 would like to thank our Sponsors for their full support: The first Sponsor: |
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tarted in 2000, NetPower has grown into a mid-size power supply company with a global presence in engineering, manufacturing, and support. As a leading high-performance and highly-reliable DC-DC converter manufacturer, NetPower has been serving the telecom and networking as well as other industries since its beginning. “Despite major shake-ups in the telecom power supply sector in the past decade, NetPower has remained reliable, healthy, and business-focused, never letting our customers down,” said CEO Dr. Yimin Jiang.
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