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Download or read book Power Aware Computer Systems written by B. Falsafi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems, PACS 2000, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in November 2000. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed, selected, and revised for inclusion in the book. This book addresses power/energy-awareness at all levels of computer systems. The papers are organized in sections on power-aware microarchitectural/circuit techniques, application/compiler optimization, exploiting IPC/memory slack, and power/performance models and tools.

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Download or read book Power Electronic Packaging written by Yong Liu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Electronic Packaging presents an in-depth overview of power electronic packaging design, assembly,reliability and modeling. Since there is a drastic difference between IC fabrication and power electronic packaging, the book systematically introduces typical power electronic packaging design, assembly, reliability and failure analysis and material selection so readers can clearly understand each task's unique characteristics. Power electronic packaging is one of the fastest growing segments in the power electronic industry, due to the rapid growth of power integrated circuit (IC) fabrication, especially for applications like portable, consumer, home, computing and automotive electronics. This book also covers how advances in both semiconductor content and power advanced package design have helped cause advances in power device capability in recent years. The author extrapolates the most recent trends in the book's areas of focus to highlight where further improvement in materials and techniques can drive continued advancements, particularly in thermal management, usability, efficiency, reliability and overall cost of power semiconductor solutions.

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