PowerSystems World 2006 Comes Ashore to Long Beach
Members of the power electronics industry will be gathering Oct. 24-26, 2006, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Southern California, the site of this year's PowerSystems World Conference. Along with the major shift in location from last year's Baltimore show, several new technical sessions at this year's event will cover emerging topics in power electronics. The West Coast boasts a critical mass of major manufacturing and technology companies, making it an excellent location for you to network with colleagues, meet with manufacturers and suppliers, and learn from leading industry authorities.
If you would benefit by seeing, trying and pricing the latest power electronics components and equipment, learning from leading authorities, and networking with peers and real leaders in the field, then you won't want to miss the Power Electronics Technology Exhibition & Conference.
General Session and Keynote Speakers
On Tuesday, Oct. 24 from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., Christopher Calwell, vice president and director of Policy and Research for Ecos Consulting, will present the General Session on “Global Efforts to Improve the Energy Efficiency of Electronic Products.” Calwell will begin this session with a brief overview of the efforts to limit worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases. He will then go on to explore research projects, utility-funded incentive programs, government labeling programs and mandatory efficiency standards that are underway to accelerate the development and sale of energy-efficient electronics. The presentation will have important implications for designers and manufacturers of electronic components. These devices are essential to improving power-conversion efficiencies and enabling smarter control of the billions of electronic products now sold each year worldwide.
On Wednesday, Oct. 25 from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., Dr. Arthur H. Rosenfeld, commissioner of the California Energy Commission (CEC), will present his keynote address, “Efficient Use of Electricity in California — Standby Losses, Appliance Standards, Incentives and Demand Response.” California has had a proactive and effective energy policy for the last 30 years that has held electricity use per person in the state constant since 1975, while the United States as a whole has grown at almost 2% per year. In his address, Rosenfeld will discuss the CEC's key initiatives that have saved the state billions of dollars annually. In addition to the efficiency of electronic products, another important initiative of the CEC is the installation of real-time meters and controls to facilitate demand response in buildings. The growing web of devices for home entertainment devices also needs to be engineered for efficiency and power control.
Innovative Education Sessions
This year's conference program will offer in-depth Technical Sessions focused on leading-edge applications; Professional Advancement Courses providing detailed information; and Special Interest Seminars covering digital power and emerging applications.
Power Electronics Technology (PET) Editorial Director Ashok Bindra and Editor David Morrison directed the content for this year's conference, so you can be sure it will be timely, leading edge and highly informative. See page 58 for the schedule of presentations.
In keeping with the launch of PET's digital power microsite (http://powerelectronics.com/digital_power/), PET01 is a new session devoted exclusively to topics relating to digital power control. Despite its potential for improved performance and flexibility, digital control has yet to penetrate the industry. This may be partly due to the complexity and cost, and partly due to the radical difference between digital and analog control solutions.
In addition to newly available controller architectures and techniques, PET01 will cover hardware issues with a presentation on difficulties with high-speed isolation barriers. Together, these presentations will shed some insight into the challenges, as well as the controversy, that surrounds the widespread adaptation of digital power control.
Also new on the block is PET03, which will address the issues of powering modern CPUs that require more power and current at lower voltages than previous generations. Complementing these capabilities, high-voltage power supplies present their own challenges, which will be discussed in the PET10 session. The latter will include presentations ranging from specialized components to entire power systems for data centers.
In session PET13, power electronics for applications outside these mainstream categories will be discussed. This includes the driver for the tubes of microwave ovens, dc-dc converters for fuel cells, controller ICs for LED light strings, and a unique wireless data system based on photovoltaic (PV) and RFID technology, as well as an interesting technique for transmitting data through the modulation of indoor lighting.
On Thursday, PET14 will discuss military and aerospace applications. These systems must not only be portable and robust, but also cost-effective. Reliability analysis and portable power sources are among the topics presented. The session also will explore the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) parts.
While many topics featured at PowerSystems World last year are also covered this year, some are now covered in their own exclusive sessions. For example, the topics of lighting and power factor correction (PFC) were combined in a single session last year. This year, PFC will be covered in PET15 featuring techniques and devices. PET17, the lighting session, will cover fluorescent lighting and the growing field of LED lighting, including an application driven by PV technology, for which the high efficiency of LEDs is well suited.
Exhibit Hall
Walk the Power Electronics Technology Exhibit Hall and meet with suppliers who have come to answer your power electronics questions and offer solutions to your challenges. There's no better way to make a product or supplier recommendation than meeting with vendors and inspecting, testing and pricing their products.
Products on display in the exhibit hall include: analog, mixed-signal and digital ICs; batteries and battery products; high-voltage products; magnetics products; passive components; power component and power-supply manufacturing equipment; power systems for RF/microwave equipment; sensors and transducers; test instruments and measurement systems; thermal management products; design software; and hardware/interconnects.
Attendees also won't want to miss the opening cocktail reception that will take place on the show floor Tuesday, Oct. 24 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
As in the past, the show floor will also be home to dynamic paper presentations. Authors will present their papers as Poster Sessions in the exhibit hall on Wednesday, Oct. 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
As a bonus this year, the show committee has put together two new education features in the Exhibit Hall. Visit the “Ask the Experts Roundtables” for free guidance and instruction on such topics as digital power, power management and portable power. Or, stop by the “Product Solution Theater” to catch supplier presentions in a theater environment where you can learn more about practical applications for products and services on display.
For complete conference information on PowerSystems World, visit www.powersystems.com.
PAC02 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
PAC03 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
PAC04 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
PAC05 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
PAC06 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
PAC07 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Motor Control Basics
Design Approaches to SMPS Control
IGBT Module Selection for Design
Integrated & Planar Power Magnetics Design Basics
Designing Electronic Control Circuits for Fluorescent Lighting Applications
Understanding Digital Power Control
Dr. Aengus Murray, International Rectifier
Bruce Carsten, Bruce Carsten Associates Inc.
John F. Donlon, Powerex Inc.
Gordon “Ed” Bloom, e/j Bloom Associates Inc.
Thomas Ribarich, International Rectifier
David Caldwell, Fextek Electronics
PAC09 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
PAC10 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
PAC11 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
PAC12 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
PAC13 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
PAC14 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Control Design of PWM Converters: The User-Friendly Approach
Switchmode Design & Layout Techniques for Low EMI
Electronic Ballast Design
Expert Transformer Design Using Normalized Methods
Fundamentals of State-Plane Analysis of Converters
Power Conversion Reliability
Dr. Shumel Ben-Yaakov, Ben-Gurion University
Bruce Carsten, Bruce Carsten Associates Inc.
Grigoriy Trestman, Osram Sylvania
Victor Quinn, Tabtronics Inc.
Prabjit Singh, IBM Corp.
Don Gerstle, C&D Technologies Inc.
PES02 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
PES03 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
PES04 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
PES05 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
11 a.m.
PET01 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PET02 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PET03 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PET04 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PET05 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Emulated Current Mode Control for Buck Regulators Using Sample & Hold Technique Small Signal Linear Analysis
Power Measurements and Analysis: Challenges and Solutions
Power Design & Management
Adding Intelligence to Lighting Applications
Free General Session: “Global Efforts to Improve the Efficiency of Electronic Products
Exhibit Hall Opens
Digital Power Conversion
Power Electronic Components
Powering CPUs
Power Design & Management
Novel Power System Architectures
Reception on Show Floor
Robert Sheehan, National Semiconductor Corp.
Selu Gupta, Tektronix Inc.
Chair: Paul Greenland, Enpirion
Steve Bowling, Microchip Technology Inc.
Christopher Calwell, Ecos Consulting
Chair: Ashok Bindra, Power Electronics Technology
Chair: Richard Baugh, ABS Inc.
Chair: Carl Blake, International Rectifier
Chair: Paul Greenland, Enpirion
Chair: David Morrison, Power Electronics Technology
PES07 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
PES08 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
PES09 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
11 a.m.
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
PET06 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PET07 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PET08 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PET09 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PET10 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Power Inductors: Component Selection, Efficiency & EMI
Post Regulation
What MOSFET Driver Can Do to Boost the Performance of VRM Design
Free Keynote Address: “Efficient Use of Electricity in California”
Exhibit Hall Opens
Poster Papers on Show Floor
Market Trends
Thermal Management & Packaging
Innovative New Products
Circuit Protection Technologies & EMI/EMC
High Voltage Power Supplies
Alexander Gerfer, Wurth Elektronik eiSos
Martin Moss, National Semiconductor Corp.
Rais Miftakhutdinov, Texas Instruments Inc.
Dr. Arthur H. Rosenfeld, California Energy Commission
Chair: Arnold Alderman, Anagenesis Inc.
Chair: Christopher A. Soule, Thermshield, LLC
Chair: Lou Pechi, Power-One Inc.
Chair: Bruce Carsten, Bruce Carsten Associates Inc.
PET12 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
PET13 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
PET14 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
PET15 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
9 a.m.
PET16 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
PET17 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
PET18 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
PET19 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
PET20 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Power Modules
Emerging Applications
Military/Aerospace Power Supplies
PFC
Exhibit Hall Opens
Magnetics — Materials & Design
Lighting
Portable Power Management
Motor Drives
Automotive Applications
Chair: Alan Elbanhawy, Fairchild Semiconductor
Chair: Mark Valentine, Power Electronics Technology
Chair: Thomas Hopkins, STMicroelectronics
Chair: Ronald Lenk, Integration Associates Inc.
Chair: Gordon “Ed” Bloom, e/j Bloom Associates Inc.
Chair: Thomas Ribarch, International Rectifier
Chair: Jeff VanZwol, Micro Power Electronics
Chair: Howard Abramowitz, AirCare Automation Inc.
Chair: Joseph Notaro, STMicroelectronics