ViewPoint
Green Shoots for Green Power? By Cliff Keys, Editor-in-Chief, PSDE                                           

Industry News

• Fairchild Wins 2009 PSDE GreenPower Leadership Award
• National’s SolarMagic™ Receives Worldwide Compliance Certifications
• Digi-Key Stocks Tyco Fully Shrouded Post Headers
• Maxwell Land Hybrid Bus Ultracapacitor Orders Worth €9.8 Million
• EPCOS Honored for Top Logistics Performance
• ABB Wins Frame Order for 2,100 Robots
• Luminus Devices and EBV Announce LED Distribution
• Intepro Systems Move to New European HQ
• OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Signs Distribution Agreement with Mouser
• Murata Power Solutions Appointments
• Foot-Hold in Europe for Nextreme with Nucletron Technologies
• UR Group Israel Receives Best Distributor Award

PowerLine
Excelsys Waterproof LED Power Supplies

PowerPlayer
De-Mystifying Power Supply Design with Digital Power Technology, By Peter Oaklander, Intersil Corporation

MarketWatch
Solar Power- Spanish Sunshine Clouds the Market in 2009, Reported by Ash Sharma, IMS Research
                                                
Design Tips
Frequency Response of Switching Power Supplies - Part 5, By Dr. Ray Ridley, Ridley Engineering

On The Road
Dialog Semiconductor & Microchip, Reported by Cliff Keys, Editor-in-Chief, PSDE

TechTalk

• ABB Powers the New Grid, Reported by Cliff Keys, Editor-in-Chief, PSDE
• austriamicrosystems Launches Active Noise Cancellation High Quality, Low Power Audio, Reported by Cliff Keys, Editor-in-Chief, PSDE

 

Magnetics
Step-Up Converters, By Nicolas Guilbourg, Texas Instruments

Cover Story
The Challenges of PoE+, By Alison Steer, Linear Technology

Special Report - 2009 GreenPower Leadership Awards

• 2009 GreenPower Leadership Awards Announced at PCIM Europe
• CEO Opinions- Intersil Corporation
• CEO Opinions- Linear Technology
• The Mantle of Energy Efficiency, By Alfred Hesener, Fairchild Semiconductor

Special Report - Green Power

• Green Power Goal for Set-Top Boxes, By Mike Voong, John Lee and Cam Jackson, Micrel
• High Efficiency ‘Green’ Planar Transformers, By Danny Ireland, Himag Solutions Ltd.
• Power Management, By Patrick Le Fèvre, Ericsson Power Modules
• Cool Power, By Michael Bean, Molex, Inc.
• Green Inductive Components, By Lars Kvarnsjö, Vacuumschmelze
• Green Power Semiconductor Technologies, By Sungmo Young, Fairchild Semiconductor  
• Green Power Protocols, By Richard F. Zarr, National Semiconductor

New Products
                                
GreenPage
Solar and Wind Power Advances, Reported by Cliff Keys, Editor-in-Chief, PSDE                

Dilbert

PCIM Europe 2009 Roundup