0201 and 01005 Parts: It's a Small World After All!

Introduced over 10 years ago, very small chip components (0201 and 01005) have proliferated throughout the industry. Or have they? In this ground-breaking industry wide survey, DfR demonstrates that implementation of very small passives has been limited and provides insight on how the majority of OEMs are cautious on this potentially unproven technology (especially for capacitors). For more information on the risks, rewards and how to successfully implement 0201, contact Cheryl Tulkoff.

DfR's Petri Savolainen presents at CORPE Workshop in Aalborg, Denmark on August 21

Petri Savolainen will be giving a presentation at the Center of Reliable Power Products (CORPE) Workshop on the successful reliability modeling and simulation of power supply electronics. For more information, please contact Petri Savolainen.

DfR's Greg Kittlesen is in the Bay Area August 14-17

Gregg Kittlesen will be visiting customers and clients in the Bay Area and is available to have technical discussions on optoelectronics, component qualification, foundry qualification, and the use of Sherlock to accelerate time to market. If you would like Dr. Kittlesen to visit your facility, please contact June Caswell.

DfR at University of Arkansas EpsCor Meeting in Fayetteville, AR: Aug 12-15

Greg Caswell is on the Advisory Board for the (Generating Renewable Energy with Efficient Nanoplasmonic Solar Cells, GREEN); and smart energy grid research (Vertically Integrated Center for Transformative Energy Research, VICTER) projects. If you would like to meet with Greg while he is in your area please contact June Caswell.

IEEE Austin COMSOC/SP Chapter Meeting at AT&T, Arboretum

Event Date:   Thu, Aug 16 2012 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Location:

IEEE Austin COMSOC/SP Chapter Meeting
August 16, 2012
AT&T Labs
9505 Arboretum, Rm #220
Austin

Topic: "Fan Control and Temperature Sensing with AMD's SB900-Series Southbridge"

Presenter: Dr. Ali Akbar Merrikh, AMD

Abstract:

Present work is an advisory to platform and system design engineers for implementing fan control and temperature sensing using AMD SB900 Integrated Micro-Controller (IMC). The temperature and fan-control features of the AMD SB900 are comparable to the existing discrete remote-temperature sensors (RTS) and fan controllers. In addition to analog (remote diode) support, the IMC fan control directly supports AMD's digital temperature sensor, the Sideband Temperature Sensor Interface (SB-TSI), as well as other SMBus-based remote temperature sensors. Our goal is to demonstrate the capability of the mentioned device in today's computers including low-power, mobile, and desktops.

***** FREE F&B *****

Please reserve your seat at:  http://comsoc081612.eventbrite.com

IEEE Central Texas Consultants Network Meeting on Wed Aug 22nd

Topic/Title	Smart Solar Power System Controller
Abstract	This talk will be about the commercial and utility-scale PV installations market and the latest technology in energy management and monitoring tools that includes artificial intelligence for decision-making and risk management.
Speakers	John Merritt     John has over 30 years of technical marketing, technology commercialization, and product launch experience.  Prior to joining Solar Power Technologies as VP of Field Operations, John spent several years as a business development consultant to Clean Tech companies.  He co-founded Traq-Wireless and NetSolve, and also worked at Dallas Semiconductor, and Motorola.  Mr. Merritt has a BS in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas.
Date/Time	Wednesday,  August 22, 2012 Networking at 6:00 pm; Business and Program from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Cost	$5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant.  Supper is at optional extra cost.
Reservations	Not required.  All interested parties are invited to attend.  For more information, go to:  http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/cn/index.htm
Location	PoK-e-Jo's Restaurant 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin TX 78727

Do a friend a favor.  Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.

Please help iNEMI identify critical components for medical devices!

Click here to access survey.

We invite you to participate in the iNEMI survey, Identification of Critical Components for Medical Devices.

Background

This survey was developed by the iNEMI Component Specifications for Medical Devices Project team. Today, there are no standard medical industry specifications for the qualification of components or their suppliers. Every component that is purchased for high-reliability medical products must be individually qualified. This situation increases costs for component manufacturers since every medical device OEM can have different requirements. This high cost of business can make the component manufacturers unresponsive to the medical device market. The lack of standard specifications adds time and cost to the introduction of new components, new technologies and, ultimately, new products. This iNEMI project will address these issues by identifying and defining a set of component-level reliability qualification methods for electronic components used in implantable and wearable medical devices. The goal is to develop specifications that can be accepted by device OEMs as well as supported by component suppliers.

Focus of Survey

This iNEMI survey - Identification of Critical Components for Medical Devices - will be used to determine the selection of the most relevant components to be considered by the project team. We appreciate you taking 10 minutes to complete and submit the survey.

We plan to close the survey on October 1st, so please give us your input as soon as possible. Feel free to pass information about this survey!

For further information about the survey or to join the project, contact

Grace O'Malley.