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April 8, 2009  |   A Penton Media Publication  |   Volume 7 Number 7  
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Gemini Solar Selected for 30MW PV Project
Wireless Power Supplies and Contactless Energy Transfer
2009 a Bigger Drain on the Power IC Market than Expected
Engineer's Career Guide - FREE from Electronic Design
Exciting New Directions In Power Brighten Economic Gloom
75V Boost DC/DC Converter with Fixed Voltage Drop APD Current Monitor
Lighting Power Controllers
FAN4800A/C, FAN4801/1S/2/2L PFC/PWM Controller Combination
Signal-and Power-Isolated Surface-Mount RS-485/422 Transceivers
Ultra-High-Precision Bulk Metal Z-Foil Wraparound Surface-Mount Resistor
Handheld Instruments for Electronics, Process-Control Applications
Wide 4:1 Input DC/DC Converters Deliver 30W from 1 in. x 2 in. Package
Converter Supplies 12 W in a Compact 24-pin DIP Package
Events
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Top Story

Gemini Solar Selected for 30MW PV Project
Gemini Solar Development Co. LLC has been selected to build a 30 megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant for Austin Energy, a municipal electric utility in Austin, Texas; the solar plant will provide enough electricity to power 5,000 homes.


Industry News

Wireless Power Supplies and Contactless Energy Transfer
A report from Frost & Sullivan, entitled "Wireless Power Supplies and Contact Energy Transfer" deals with the transmission of power from a source to a receiver or load without wires and through an air gap if the transfer is contactless.

2009 a Bigger Drain on the Power IC Market than Expected
IMS Research's latest forecast for the world power management & driver IC market predicts a year-on-year fall of revenues of close to 15% in 2009.

Engineer's Career Guide - FREE from Electronic Design
Current Salary Stats, Top 10 Skills in Demand PLUS the latest Digital Technology Update
Electronic Design is offering the Engineer’s Career Guide, a compendium of career guidance articles for electronic design engineers, as a bonus to newly qualified subscribers. Electronic Design magazine delivers, hands-on how-to articles to help you get your products to market quickly while keeping costs down – it’s continuing education – without continuing tuition costs! Offer valid in US only. Register for your free subscription today.

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WATCH ELECTRONIC DESIGN’S EDUCAST ON UNDERSTANDING POWER-OVER-ETHERNET
The long-awaited version 4.0 of the IEEE 802.3at standard for PoE+ (Power-over-Ethernet Plus) should be approved in the second half of 2009. It will dramatically change the way products that use power delivered over Ethernet cables are designed. In this brief presentation, Akros Silicon’s Amit Gattani sums up the features of the new standard and their implications for designers. Sponsored by Maxim. Watch now!


Power Features from Electronic Design

Exciting New Directions In Power Brighten Economic Gloom
It never ceases to amaze how much mindbogglingly fascinating technology is associated with the supposedly staid discipline of power technology...


New Products and Services

75V Boost DC/DC Converter with Fixed Voltage Drop APD Current Monitor
Linear Technology's LT3571 is a fixed-frequency, current mode step-up DC/DC converter with an integrated high-side avalanche photodiode (APD) current monitor.

Lighting Power Controllers
Texas Instruments' UCC28810 and UCC28811 are general lighting power controllers for low- to medium-power lumens applications requiring power factor correction and EMC compliance.

FAN4800A/C, FAN4801/1S/2/2L PFC/PWM Controller Combination
Fairchild Semiconductor's FAN4800A/C and FAN4801/1S/2/2L power supply ICs consist of a boost PFC and PWM and require few external components to achieve versatile protections/compensation.

Signal-and Power-Isolated Surface-Mount RS-485/422 Transceivers
Analog Devices expanded its interface product family with two integrated, galvanically isolated RS-485/422 transceivers, each featuring an integrated isolated power converter.

Ultra-High-Precision Bulk Metal Z-Foil Wraparound Surface-Mount Resistor
Vishay Intertechnology's improved VSMP0603 ultra-high-precision Bulk Metal Z-Foil (BMZF) wraparound surface-mount resistor has an extended power rating of 0.1 W and resistance values up to 5 kOhm.

Handheld Instruments for Electronics, Process-Control Applications
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced four handheld instruments: Three are capacitance and LCR (inductance, capacitance, resistance) meters.

Wide 4:1 Input DC/DC Converters Deliver 30W from 1 in. x 2 in. Package
Available in an open frame version or plastic package, the UEI30 series of isolated wide-range DC-DC converters from Murata Power Solutions deliver a full 30W output power from a board area of just 1.8 square inches.

Converter Supplies 12 W in a Compact 24-pin DIP Package
V-Infinity introduced a line of dc-dc converters that provide 12 W output power in a compact 24-pin DIP package; these isolated board mount converters feature a wide 4:1 input range and efficiencies of up to 88%.


Upcoming Events

Events
April 14, 2009 - April 17, 2009
2009 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronix (ICM)
 Hotel Silken Puerta de Malaga
Malaga, Spain
www.icm2009.net/

April 15, 2009 - April 17, 2009
2009 12th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS)
 Centrum Babylon
Liberec, Czech Republic
ddecs2009.ful.cz/index.php

April 16, 2009 - April 17, 2009
IEEE Green Technology Conference
Holiday Inn Hotel Towers
Lubbock, TX
www.ieeegreentech.org/

April 20, 2009 - April 22, 2009
IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS 2009)
Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel
Baltimore, MD
ewh.ieee.org/conf/ests09/

April 26, 2009 - April 29, 2009
2009 IEEE Rural Electric Power Conference (REPC)
 Hotel Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO
www.ieeerepc.org/

April 27, 2009 - April 28, 2009
2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID (IEEE RFID 2009)
 Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin
Orlando, FL
www.ieee-rfid.org/2009/

April 28, 2009 - April 29, 2009
2009 IEEE Circuits and System International Conference on Testing and Diagnosis (ICTD)
School or Automation Engineering, University of Electronics
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
ictd08.uestc.edu.cn

April 22, 2009 - April 23, 2009
2009 Industrial Automation Safety and Security Symposium (International Society of Automation)
Marriott Houston Hobby Airport
Houston, TX
www.isa.org/safetysymposium

May 03, 2009 - May 07, 2009
2009 IEEE/IAS Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference
Hyatt Regency Calgary
Calgary, AB Canada
www.ieee.org/icps2009

May 03, 2009 - May 06, 2009
2009 IEEE International Electric Machines & Drives - IEMDC
Hilton Hotel Miami
Miami, FL
www.iemdc2009.org

May 03, 2009 - May 06, 2009
2009 IEEE 22nd Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE
Delta St. John's and Convention Centre
St. John's NL, Canada
www.ccece09.org

May 04, 2009 - May 08, 2009
Intermag 2009
 Sheraton Grand Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
www.intermagconference/intermag2009

May 05, 2009 - May 07, 2009
2009 IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC
 Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Center
Singapore, Singapore
imtc.ieee-ims.org

May 11, 2009 - May 12, 2009
2009 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security
Westin Hotel 70 Third Avenue
Waltham, MA
www.ieeehomelandsecurityconference.org

May 12, 2009 - May 17, 2009
2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
 Kobe International Conference
Kobe, Japan
www.icra2009.org

May 14, 2009 - May 15, 2009
2009 International Meeting for Future of Electron Devices, Kansai
Kansai University Centenary Memorial Hall
Takatsuki, Japan
www.imfedk.org

June 01, 2009 - June 05, 2009
2009 IEEE 36th International Conference on Ploasma Sciences
The Omni Hotel
San Diego, CA
cer.ucsd.edu/icopsofe09

June 01, 2009 - June 05, 2009
2009 IEEE 23rd Symposium on Fusion Engineering - SOFE
Omni San Diego Hotel
San Diego, CA
cer.ucsd.edu/icopssofe09

June 01, 2009 - June 02, 2009
2009 2nd International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology
Indian Institute of Technology
Mumbai, India
www.ee.iitb.ac.in/irdst

June 01, 2009 - June 03, 2009
2009 7th Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo 3009)
 Czerniejewo, Poland
romoco.put.poznan.pl

June 02, 2009 - June 05, 2009
2009 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)
 Grand Traverse Resort and Spa
Traverse City, MI
www.egr.msu.edu.nmdc2009

June 03, 2009 - June 05, 2009
2009 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
XI'an International Conference Center
Xi'an, Chinar
www.ieeeiv.net/

June 07, 2009 - June 12, 2009
2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Philadelphia, PA
www.pvsc34.org

June 09, 2009 - June 11, 2009
2009 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP)
 Palazzo del Congressi-Capri
Capri, Italy
www.iccep.net



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