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Power Management
10/10/2003 4:25 PM EDT
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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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.
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