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ENERGY STAR Nears Completion of Small Network Spec

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published the third draft of its ENERGY STAR® Small Networking Equipment spec (v1). The program covers non-rack-mounted versions of broadband access devices (modems, integrated access devices (IADs), and optical network termination devices) and local network equipment (access points, routers, and switches). I wrote about draft 2 of the [...]

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Department of Energy Report Takes the Pulse of LED Savings

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just released a report that details the savings gained from switching over to energy efficient LED lighting by the U.S. market. The report, entitled Adoption of Light-Emitting Diodes in Common Lighting Applications, breaks down the 2012 cost savings of the following categories of lighting. Indoor lamps (residential) Indoor luminaires [...]

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Intel talks about new Atom CPU

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

by Jim Harrison Intel has announced the Silvermont micro-architecture for Atom CPUs with a 22 nm Tri-Gate SoC manufacturing process targeting low-power requirements in markets from smartphones to the data center. Silvermont is said to enable, on a variety of standard metrics, ~3x peak performance or the same performance at ~5x lower power over the [...]

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CEC Sets Workshops to Discuss Appliance Efficiency Request for Information Responses

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Last month, I wrote about the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) invitation to participate in the 2012-2013 Appliance Efficiency Rulemaking Request for Information (RFI) by submitting data on products that the state is considering for efficiency standards (click here to read the blog). The information submittal deadline is May 9th. The commission isn’t wasting any time [...]

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U.S. EPA Shines Light on Latest Lamp Specification Draft

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) distributed the latest draft of their ENERGY STAR® Lamps Version 1 program specifications. The new specification, in development since mid- 2011, is intended to replace the existing CFL and LED ENERGY STAR program specifications. Draft 4 includes a number of changes from the previous draft: Updated definitions [...]

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NXP acquires Code Red Technologies

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

by Jim Harrison NXP Semiconductors has acquired Code Red Technologies. Code Red is the maker of Red Suite 5, a full featured software development environment for ARM based microcontrollers. The Red Suite IDE is based on the Eclipse platform and includes the industry standard GNU tools. The tools Version 5, released last fall, includes new [...]

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Free conference Tuesday by Analog Devices – Xilinx – MathWorks

Monday, April 29, 2013

by Jim Harrison The conference is in Santa Clara: Tuesday April 30, 2013 9am to 4:30pm Santa Clara Marriott Santa Clara, CA Analog Devices and event partners, Xilinx and MathWorks, invite you to a one-day conference featuring leading industry experts presenting complete signal processing solutions for a number of application areas chain, and system-ready solutions [...]

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