EBV Elektronik is to begin highlighting products in its portfolio which come out tops in energy efficiency. The project is part of EBV's ECOmise It campaign which it started in April this year.
The products will be awarded what the company calls it BAT (Best Accessible Technology) certificate.
“With the ‘Best Accessible Technology’ certification, EBV provides its customers with a tool that gives clear guidance with regard to energy efficiency”, explains Rudy Van Parijs, Vice President Technical Development. “Our approach is to ensure that products promoted by EBV comply not only with the customer’s technical requirements but also, where possible, to the most advanced level of development for energy efficiency”, continued Van Parijs.
Products and their certification are selected on the basis of individual and critical assessment by the product specialists in technical marketing at EBV and are subject to strict criteria. For example, every product must display fixed characteristics to be certified by EBV as a ‘Best Accessible Technology’ product with regard to energy efficiency.
The criteria are:
• New process technology to improve leakage current performance and better performance per watt, e.g. microprocessors and programmable logic in 90, 60 or 45 nm process technology
• New process technology for lower supply voltage, e.g. supply voltage below 2 V
• Improved low power modes for microcontrollers, e.g. operating from a single battery cell
• Quiescent current for analogue products: ~ below 500 μA
• Newest package technology
• Switching efficiency in DC-DC converters:
• Efficiency of switching regulators/controllers is greater than:
• Vin/Vout > 7, efficiency is > 85%
• Vin/Vout > 2 and Fsw > 2 MHz, efficiency is > 90%
• Vin/Vout > 2, efficiency is > 95%
• LED driver:
• Boost efficiency is > 85%
• Buck efficiency is > 90%
• Buck-boost efficiency is > 80%
• Fulfills PowerWise Specification from National Semiconductor
• Relation between power consumption/system frequency without load for clocked devices (e.g. logic, microcontrollers, DSPs, etc.)
• Relation between stand-by power and active power without load (amplifiers, comparators)
• Low-noise linear-regulators < 15 μVrms/mW
• Relation between power consumption, system frequency and number of logic cells for FPGAs
• Lighting: light efficiency performance per watt
• Lighting: newest LED technology
Customers will know whether or not a product has been certified by EBV as BAT-compatible by means of the characteristic logo on all product presentations produced by EBV.
With the introduction of the BAT certificate, EBV Elektronik is rigorously pursuing the ‘ECOmise it’ campaign initiated in April 2008 while also specifically expanding the initiative to its product portfolio for the first time. More information is available at www.ebv.com/bat
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