Design articles, news and advice for engineers creating clean/green devices and systems
AUSTIN, Texas, July 1, 2009 — Off-Chip Communications LLC has launched the online engineering magazine, blog and forum http://www.low-powerdesign.com, a portal catering to the needs of engineers designing green/low-power devices and systems.
“In his keynote address to the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in 2007, Al Gore told design engineers that they’re the key to a green future,” said John Donovan, Editor-in-Chief of Low-Power Design. “Smart embedded devices, he challenged them, could have an enormous impact on overall energy consumption – and it was up to them to design them. This site is designed to help engineers do exactly that.”
“While a green future will depend on emerging technologies, in the short term it depends on energy-efficient, low-power design,” continued Donovan. “The U.S. electronics industry needs to make a coordinated attack on power consumption, starting with the design of ultra low-power systems and chips.”
Take a simple example: According to the U.S. Department of Energy, chargers for portable electronics devices (“wall warts”) eat up about 4% of the electricity used by the average U.S. home. Extrapolating to a national scale, that amounts to about 52 billion kilowatt hours, or the energy produced by 26 average-size power plants. Increasing the energy efficiency of wall warts by 50% would have a huge impact on energy consumption and greenhouse gas reduction. And it’s not rocket science, either.
About Low-Power Design
Low-Power Design aims to be “the engineer’s portal for green/low-power design.” Low-Power Design carries in-depth design articles, industry news, product reviews and views from a wide range of electronics industry veterans. News is both staff-written and aggregated from a variety of sources worldwide. Design articles are contributed and are written by engineers for engineers. Everyone is invited to share their views in the Forum.
Low-Power Design was started by John Donovan, assisted by Brian Fuller and Steve Leibson, the ex-Editors-in-Chief of Portable Design, EE Times and EDN, respectively. Between them they have over 75 years experience in the electronics industry in general and the semiconductor industry in particular.
Press Contact:
John Donovan
Email:
Phone: (512) 535-3481
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