8:00 – 10:00 am

Registration and Exhibits open, refreshments served in Exhibit Area

10:00 am – 12:00 noon

Plenary Session

1.0 Analyzing Power Efficiency in Portable Applications, Markus Levy, President and Founder, Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium

1.1 Energy Star External Power Supplies: Good Things Really Do Come in Small Packages, Andrew Fanara, Program Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star Program

1.2 Is Power Conversion Efficiency Running Out of Steam as a Comparison Tool?, Alan Elbanhawy, Director, Computing and Telecommunications Segments
Advanced Power System Center, Fairchild Semiconductor

1.3 Power Management Partitioning in Mobile Phones, Martin Moss, Product Marketing Manager, National Semiconductor

12:00 – 1:30 pm

Lunch on your own

1:30 – 3:30 pm

Exhibits Open

Refreshments served in Exhibit Area

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Roundtable Discussion

Moderator:

Alix Paultre, Executive Editor, Electronic Products Magazine

Panelists:

Dave Heacock, Vice President Portable Products, Texas Instruments

Peter Henry, Vice President Portable Group, National Semiconductor

Lilly Huang, Power System Architect, Intel

Laurence McGarry, Director Advanced Engineering Technology , Astec Power, Emerson Network Power

Jeff Sherman, Marketing Manager, International Rectifier

Kin Shum, Director of Strategic Marketing, Advanced Analogic Technologies

8:00 – 10:00 am

Single-Cell Applications

2.0 Understanding LDO Dropout, Michael Day, Texas Instruments

2.1 Max-Out with Mini-Processors, the Renaissance of 4-bit Microcontrollers, Don Corson, EM Microelectronics

2.2 Integrated Power Electronic Converters: A Novel Concept Applied to Switching Power Supplies, Ali Emadi and Zhong Nie, Illinois Institute of Technology, Javad Mahdavi and George Chen, HiPAC Semiconductor

2.3 Power in the 3G Phone, Wallace Ly, National Semiconductor

10:00 am – 12:00 noon

12:00 – 1:30 pm

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Battery Management

3.0 Powering Seamless Mobility, Jason Howard, Motorola Energy Systems

3.1 Smart Battery Integration, David Baggaley, Inspired Energy

3.2 Meeting the Counterfeit Battery Pack Challenge, Zheren Lai and Mark Richey, Intersil

3:00 – 3:30 pm

3:30 – 5:30 pm

Chargers and Adapters

4.0 External Power Design Challenges, Lawrence McGarry, Astec Power

4.1 Piezoelectric Converters for Dc-ac and Ac-dc Applications, Alfredo Carazo, Face Electronics

4.2 Laptop Adaptor Power Density Increased Using One-Cycle Control PFC, Stephen Oliver, International Rectifier

4.3 ON/OFF Control in Portable Power Applications, John Jovalusky, Power Integrations

8:00 – 10:00 am

Multi-Cell Applications

5.0 System Power Delivery Challenges for Mobile Computing Platforms, Lilly Haung, Intel

5.1 Power Concepts for Optimized Notebook Power Management, A. Diaz-Valdivieso, J. Ejury, D. Ahlers, Infineon Technologies

5.2 Advances in Dynamic Power Management for Portable Devices, Ashraf Lotfi, Enpirion

5.3 Piezoelectric Active Fiber Composites for Harvesting Energy From Ambient Vibrational Sources, by Steve Leschin, Advanced Cerametrics, Inc. and Chris Thompson, FA Technology Ventures and Mr. Richard Cass Advanced Cerametrics and Dr. Farhad Mohammadi Advanced Cerametrics

10:00 – 10:30 am

10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Enhancing Energy Efficiency

6.0 Boosting Up the Efficiency for Mobile Adapters, G. Deboy, J. Luo, and M.K. Jeoh, Infineon Technologies

6.1 Optimizing Microcontrollers for High-Performance and Ultra Low Power, Don Corson, EM Microelectronics

6.2 PPTC Circuit Protection Devices Enhance USF Energy Utilization and System Reliability, Adrian Mikolajczak, Tyco Electronics, Raychem

6.3 Digital versus Analog Control of Switching Power Supplies, Ali Emadi, Illinois Institute of Technology, Javad Mahdavi and George Chen, HiPAC Semiconductor

Adjourn