Managing Power Electronics: VLSI and DSP-Driven Computer Systems

Index

Numerics

1-Watt Initiative 204

2.5G mobile phone 127

2.5G technology 125–126

2G handheld computer 129

2G technology 125–126

3G technology 125–126

A

AC adapters 119–124

active operation 121

case temperature 120–121

no-load operation 121

power dissipation 119–120

solutions 121–122

wireless telephones 138–139

AC open loop gain 39–41

acceptor materials 11

ACE1502 microcontrollers 146–148

active clamps 87–96

active components 359

active cooling 206–211

efficiency of 207–209

implementation of 209–211

Peltier arrays 209–210

Stirling refrigerators 210

See also passive cooling

active droop 164

adaptive charging 98–99

adaptive computing machines (ACMs) 133

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) 166–168, 201

Advanced Graphics Port (AGP) voltage regulator 159

air gap 65, 359

amplification 12

analog circuits 26

buck converters 49–64

elementary circuits 32–35

linear vs. switching 48–49

operational amplifiers 35–41

switching regulators 49

transistors 26–31

voltage references 41–45

voltage regulators 46–48

See also digital circuits

analog modulators 56–57

ANSYS thermal simulator 120

anti-bouncing flip-flop 68–69

antimony 11

arsenic 11

Asynchronous Computer Peripheral Interface (ACPI) 159

audio amplifiers 129

B

backlight 135–136, 148–150

ball grid array (BGA) 23

band-gap voltage reference 44

base collector junction 12

base current 27

battery charging 97–99

controllers 97

data conversion 98

discrete DMOS transistors 98

efficiency 97–98

fast chargers 98–99

smart battery system