Powering Communications

November 2010

Source: Ericsson

By Patrick Le Fï½vre, Marketing & Communication Director, Ericsson Power Modules

Since the origin of mobile communication, various techniques based on software and hardware have been implemented to optimize energy efficiency. In every telecommunication system there are DC/DC

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Date:

11/23/2010

Figure 1: Talk time analysis of a 3G PA with and without FAN5902 under WCDMA signal modulation and 1000mAh Li-Ion battery. The power distribution function is DG09 and can be found in GSMA's white paper "Battery Life Measurement Technique, v4.7".

Communications Power Solutions

By Wayne Seto, Technical Marketing Manager, Mobile Power Solutions, Fairchild Semiconductor

What is more annoying? Running out of battery or constantly needing to recharge it? With the proliferation of cellular mobile handsets, especially smartphones in the world today where people are

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Date:

11/22/2010

Figure 1: Traditional approach

Comms Continuity

By Shyam Chandra, Product Marketing Manager, Lattice Semiconductor

The explosion in data traffic and the introduction of "Smart Phones" such as the Apple iPhone are fuelling the need for the rapid expansion of communications networks, not only at the Edge but

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Date:

11/21/2010

Figure1: Block schematic of the IBA

Designing For Telecoms

By Pietro Scalia, EMEA Power Marketing Manager for Telecom and Matthias Ulmann, EMEA Design Services Engineer, Texas Instruments, Germany

To reduce significant distribution losses due to high currents circulating on the Intermediate Bus in the Telecom/ Datacom distributed architecture, the value of this voltage (IBV) has been recently

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Date:

11/20/2010

Figure 1: Test data shows the capacitance effects of various overvoltage protection configurations

Telecommunications Safety

By Matthew Williams, Global Applications Engineering Manager, Tyco Electronics, Circuit Protection Business Unit

Telecommunications equipment must be able to survive surges and power faults as defined in the relevant standards. Survivability can be achieved by providing protection either remotely or at the

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Date:

11/20/2010

Figure 1: End-to-end efficiency in the traditional, 480V AC power distribution system

Hidden Costs of Power Distribution

By Ed Spears, Product Marketing Manager, Eaton Critical Power Solutions Division, Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Data center energy costs as a percent of total revenue are at an all-time high - emerging as the second largest operating cost in the IT organization, behind labor. The five-year cost for

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Date:

11/20/2010

Figure 1: PI3101 complete power system

Compact Isolated DC-DC Converter

By Christopher R. Swartz, Principal Applications Engineer, Picor Corporation

System designers have struggled to determine the type of distributed power system to best meet the needs of the system while still retaining high efficiency, reliability, low cost and most of all,

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Date:

11/17/2010