Category Archives: Power management

How Green Is Your MCU?

With energy efficient, ‘green’ designs devices being all the rage, embedded developers need to be asking semiconductor vendors, “How green is your MCU?” (OK, so it’s black. Work with me here.) Ever since Intel hit the Power Wall in 2004—when … Continue reading

Posted in Clean energy, Microcontrollers, Power management, trade shows | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Power Management in USB 3.0

USB has become the most successful PC peripheral interconnect ever defined, with over 10 billion USB 2.0 products installed today. Still, despite its convenience, USB has never been either the fastest or the lowest-power interconnect protocol out there. USB 3.0 … Continue reading

Posted in Energy Efficiency, Power management | Tagged | Leave a comment

Ultra Low Power Electronics in the Next Decade

As a TI Fellow and director of TI’s Kilby Research Labs, Ajith Amerasekera’s job is to predict the future and plot a roadmap to it. His keynote at day two of the low-power electronics show (ISLPED) in Austin—“Ultra Low Power … Continue reading

Posted in Batteries, Clean energy, Energy Efficiency, Power management, semiconductors | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment