Thermal Management Tools Face Cooling Issues

ICs and the Packages that house them continue to shrink. In the meantime, they are operating at higher frequencies and offering higher-performance levels while generating more power — much of it in the form of heat.

What’s The Difference Between Voltage-Feedback And Current-Feedback Op Amps?

Operational amplifiers (op amps) are analog circuits that amplify voltage. They may be constructed so their output voltage is based on the voltage difference across their differential inputs (voltage-feedback amplifiers, or VFAs) or on the current flowing between those inputs (current-feedback amplifiers, or CFAs). There are advantages and disadvantages to both types of op amps.

What’s The Difference Between Watts And Volt-Amperes?

Both watts (W) and volt-amperes (VA) are units of measurement for electrical power. Watts refer to “real power,” while volt-amperes refer to “apparent power.” Usually, electronic products show one or both of these values to provide information about how much energy they will consume or how much current they will draw. Each of these values can be used for various purposes.

Digilent and Analog Devices Unveil Portable Analog Design Kits For Engineering Students

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) and Digilent Inc. unveiled two all-in-one analog design kits that enhance engineering students' educational experience by allowing students to experiment quickly and easily with advanced technologies and build and test real-world, functional analog design circuits anytime - anywhere - right on their PCs.

Value-Added Services Deliver Custom Electromechanical Assemblies

C&K Components provides value-added assembly services to deliver complete electromechanical solutions that meet customer requirements at the lowest overall cost.

Power Module Offers 90-Degree Mounting

Vincotech offers a wide range of power modules, one line of which is a suitable match for book-sized inverters and 19-inch rack-mounted power supplies with a 90-degree angle between the heat-sink and PCB.

Patch Panel Enables Monitoring, Interconnectivity, or Testing Circuits

Electro Standards Laboratories' Model 9510 32-Port RJ45/SCSI-5 Patch Panel System is a 32-port patch panel with 32 RJ45 ports wired to four 68-pin SCSI-5 connectors kitted with four SCSI-5 cables, a strain relief bar, and fastener hardware.

Energy-Saving Voltage Comparators

STMicroelectronics introduced a general-purpose voltage comparator that consumes one third the current for the same response time, compared with currently available devices such as the LMV331.

Extreme High-Temperature Accelerometers

Meggitt Sensing Systems has introduced the Endevco model 6240M10, a hermetically sealed high-temperature piezoelectric charge output accelerometer with continuous operation to +649°C (+1200°F), and intermittent operation to +760°C (+1400°F).

Low Profile LED Power Supplies

Excelsys Technologies announces its new LDB75 constant current LED power supply series which delivers up to 75W output power with the lowest profile in the market of only 1.10"/28mm.

May 24, 2012 - May 26, 2012
2012 13th International Conference on Optimizatio n of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (OPTIM)
Cheile Gradistei Holiday Complex
Brasov, Romania
www.info-optim.ro

May 24, 2012 - May 26, 2012
2012 MIXDES - 19th International Conference "Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems
Sheraton Warsaw Hotel, 2 Prusa str.,00493
Warsaw, Poland
www.mixdes-2012.pl

May 28, 2012 - May 31, 2012
2012 IEEE 21st International Conference on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Tianyuan Tower Hotel
Hangzhou, China
www.ISIE2012.com

May 29, 2012 - June 01, 2012
2012 IEEE 62nd Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC)
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
San Diego, CA USA
www.ectc.net

May 30, 2012 - June 01, 2012
2012 13th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm)
Sheraton
San Diego, CA USA
www.thermoconference.org

June 02, 2012 - June 05, 2012
2012 International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC 2012)
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China
www.ipemc2012.org

June 03, 2012 - June 08, 2012
2012 49th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
San Francisco Mosconi Center
San Francisco, CA USA
www.dac.com

June 03, 2012 - June 07, 2012
2012 IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC)
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
San Diego, CA USA
www.nessengr.com/ipmhvc2012/index.html

June 03, 2012 - June 08, 2012
2012 IEEE 38th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
Austin Convention Center
Austin, TX USA
www.ieee-pvsc.org

June 03, 2012 - June 07, 2012
2012 24th International Symposium on Power Siconductor Devices & ICs (ISPSD)
Old Sint Jan Conference Center
Bruges, Belgium
www.ispsd2012.com

June 04, 2012 - June 06, 2012
2012 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2012)
Hiltin Harrisburg - One North
Harrisburg, PA USA
ckobert@ieee.org

June 10, 2012 - June 13, 2012 2012 IEEE 13th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL)
Dochisha University
Kyoto, Japan
tkato@mail.dishisha.ac.jp

June 18, 2012 - June 20, 2012 2012 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo
Hyatt Regency Dearborn
Dearborn, MI USA
www.itec-conf.com/

June 24, 2012 - June 28, 2012
2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robots and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012)
TBD
Rome, Italy
www.biorob2012.org

June 25, 2012 - June 28, 2012
2012 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG)
Aalborg Congress and Culture Centre
Aalborg, Denmark
www.ghson.net/FOLDERS_INDEX/ieee/index.htm

June 26, 2012 - June 29, 2012
2012 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS)
Jeju Ramada Hotel
Jeju Island, Korea (South)
www.ias-12.org

July 08, 2012 - July 13, 2012
2012 IEEE 39th International Conference on Plasma Sciences (ICOPS)
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Edinburgh, UK
m.g.kong@lboro.ac.uk

July 11 - July 13, 2012 27th Power System Japan
Tokyo Big Site Convention Center
Tokyo, Japan
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August 05, 2012 - August 08, 2012
2012 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)
Chengdu International & Convention Center (CIECC)
Chengdu, China
guo@eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp

August 06, 2012 - August 10, 2012
2012 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC2012
Pittsburgh David L. Laurence Convention Center
Pittsburgh, PA USA
emi@majr.com

August 20, 2012 - August 23, 2012
2012 IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO)
International Convention Centre
Birmingham, UK
q.guo@bham.ac.uk

August 20, 2012 - August 24, 2012
2012 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2012)
Grand Hyatt Seoul Hotel
Seoul, Korea (South)
hyungpil@me.skku.ac.kr

August 27, 2012 - August 29, 2012
2012 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Engineering (SGE)
UOIT
Oshawa, ON, Canada
hossam.gabbar@uoit.ca

2012 24th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
San Diego, CA USA
d.bernstein@ieee.org

September 15, 2012 - September 20, 2012
2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
TBD
Raleigh, NC USA
www.ecce2012.org

September 17, 2012 - September 21, 2012
2012 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC Europe
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Italy
www.emceurope2012.it

September 18, 2012 - September 20, 2012
2012 Power Engineering and Automation Conference (PEAM) TBD
Wuhan, Hubei, China
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September 24, 2012 - September 28, 2012
2012 13th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS)
TBD
Biarritz, France
schwank@radecs.net

September 24, 2012 - September 27, 2012 2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)
Soltee Hotel
Kathmandu, Nepal
chii@nus.edu.sg

October 07, 2012 - October 11, 2012
2012 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting
The Flamingo Hotel
Las Vegas, NV USA
l.m.bernstein@ ieee.org

October 14, 2012 - October 17, 2012 2012 3rd IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT Europe)
TU Berlin
Berlin, Germany
kai.strunz@tu-berlin.de

October 15, 2012 - October 19, 2012
OCEANS 2012
Virginia Beach Convention Center
Hampton Roads, VA USA
raymond.f.toll.jr@saic.com

October 23, 2012 - October 26, 2012
2012 IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON 2012)
TBD
Auckland, New Zealand
neville.watson@canterbury.ac.nz

October 23, 2012 - October 25, 2012
2012 Advanced Energy Solutions (AES2012)
San Diego Hilton
San Diego, CA USA

October 28, 2012 - October 31, 2012
2012 IEEE Sensors
Taipei International Convention Center
Taipei, Taiwan
www.ieee-sensors2012.org

November 06, 2012 - November 09, 2012
2012 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Environmental Electromagnetics (CEEM 2012)
Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center
Shanghai, China
shidan.ml@gmail.com

November 16, 2012 - November 18, 2012
2012 International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip
Palace Hotel
San Francisco, CA USA
gabe@eecs.berkeley.edu

November 29, 2012 - December 01, 2012
2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2012)
Umeda Sky Building
Osaka, Japan
zhidao@ieee.org

December 01, 2012 - December 07, 2012
2012 IEEE Micro- and Nano-engineering in Medicine Conference (MNMC)
TBD
Hawaii USA
d.bernstein@ieee.org

December 05, 2012 - December 07, 2012
2012 12th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARV 2012)
TBD
Guangzhou, China
secretariat@icarv.org

December 14, 2012 - December 15, 2012
2012 IEEE Smart Grid World Forum 3 (SGWF3)
TBD
Beijing, China
h.tepper@ieee.org

December 17, 2012 - December 18, 2012
2012 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES 2012)
TBD
Langkawi, Malaysia
sanom@eng.upm.edu.my