May 14, 2009

For Immediate Release - Nuremberg, Germany

At an awards presentation held at the PCIM Europe Exhibition & Conference and hosted by Power Systems Design Europe magazine, the winners of the 2nd annual, prestigious "GreenPower Leadership Awards" competition were announced.

The awards competition is structured to recognize editorial contribution from the engineering community that promotes energy efficiency in electronic content of product design.

Finalist and the winner were selected by subscriber readership of articles included in PSDE's digital edition.

No committees, no politics were involved in the judging process. Simply click counting as subscribers selected articles of interest to read.

An educational donation of $3.000 sponsored by Intersil Corporation, Linear Technology and Power Systems Design is being given to the European electronic university of choice by the winning author

The winners are:

Overall Winner:

Article:"Solar Power Shines"
Author: Alfred Hesener
Company: Fairchild Semiconductor

Finalist (In alphabetical order, by company name)

Article: "Designing for Efficiency at the Component Level"
Author :Len Crane
Company: Coilcraft

Article: "Solving Current Source Design Challenges"
Author: Robert Dobkin
Company: Linear Technology

Article: "SiC Impacts 'Greening' of Power"
Authors: Philip C. Zuk & Bruce Odekirk
Company: Microsemi

Atricle: "Avoiding Current Spikes with LEDs"
Author: Pat Goodman
Company: Philips Lumileds

Power Systems Design congratulations everyone recognized above, as they are all winners, dedicated to the leadership and pursuit of "GreenPower" and power efficiency in their future designs.


Editorial Contact: Cliff Keys This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it