Akros GreenEdge AS1854 Named “2009 Product of the Year” by Electronic Products Magazine

Product of the Year by Electronic Products MagazineThe AS1854 Garners Award for Innovative Advancement as the first Power System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Featuring Integrated 2kV Digital Isolation

Sunnyvale, Calif. – Jan. 14, 2010 – Akros Silicon, a leader in intelligent energy management semiconductor devices, today announced it was recognized with an Electronic Products’ Product of the Year award for its AS1854 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Powered-Device System-on-a-Chip (PD SoC) product.

The editors of Electronic Products—a leading trade publication for electronic design engineers—evaluated thousands of products launched in 2009. The winning products are selected on the basis of innovative design, significant advancement in technology or application and substantial achievement in price and performance. The AS1854 broke new ground with an innovative SoC solution that includes GreenEdge™ high-voltage digital isolation technology, smart power management features and quad DC-DC power outputs; enabling intelligent, highly efficient, cost-effective solutions for PoE PD platforms. (see full press release)

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To learn more about the AS1854 product family, please visit the product page or contact your local sales representative, or sales@akrossilicon.com.

The Need for Energy Conservation

February 24, 2010

Today a significant amount of energy is wasted in power conversions. Conversion of power from one voltage to another, while a necessity in power distribution and usage, has inherent conversion losses resulting in wasted energy. Higher conversion efficiency results in lower amount of wasted power, and this affect is multiplied if several conversions are used to create a required voltage. Significant energy savings can be achieved by not only having high efficiencies at full loads, but also by maintaining high efficiencies at light loads, low standby power and adaptive power controls via remote networked managed systems

The list of electrical appliances we use in our everyday life continues to grow: IP Phones, IP Cameras, Settop/DSL modems, HVAC heating and cooling systems, TVs, Washers & Dryers, Lighting etc. A lot of these appliances operate for a significant amount of time at light load power, between 20-50% of full load. With Digital Power Control techniques, it is now possible to adapt switching nature of power converters to optimize light load efficiency. This can be done locally by monitoring loading conditions or by remote network commands based on network policies.

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