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Power Management

10/10/2003 4:25 PM EDT

Power Management


Management by sharing
Power management involves more than heroic efforts to squeeze more battery life out of a feature-laden cell phone. Telecommunications switching centers, high-reliability servers and mainframe computers rely on some very sophisticated forms of voltage regulation and power management.


  • Backplane health rests on fault finding
  • Varied power supplies needed
  • Convergence happens at the point of load


  • Multi-voltage systems need tough supervisors
  • Loop speed clues in hot-swap component choices
  • Redundant power supplies the key to hot swap
  • Hot swap controller maximizes system up-time
  • Programmable logic devices support hot-socketing





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