8:00 – 10:00 am

Registration and Exhibits Open

Refreshments served in Exhibit area

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Plenary

Chaired by:
Jeff Shepard/Linnea Brush, Darnell Group

1.0 Digital “Bytes” into Power Market
Steve Goldman
CEO
Power-One

1.1 Digital Control's Impact on Converter Efficiency
Dan Artusi
CEO
ColdWatt

1.2 Digital Power Control: A System User’s Perspective
Scott Strand
Program Director, Power/Cooling Procurement Engineering
IBM

1.3 Digital and Analog Partitioning in Next-Generation Power Converters
Gene Sheridan
Vice President, Computer & Communications Business Unit
International Rectifier

12:00 – 1:30 pm

Lunch break

1:30 – 3:30 pm

Exhibits Open

Refreshments served in Exhibit area

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Roundtable

Digital Power – Ready for Prime Time?

Chaired by:
Howard Abramowitz, Systel

Dave Freeman
Systems Engineering Manager, Analog & Digital Power Control Products
Texas Instruments

Jim Templeton
Founder & Vice President Marketing
Zilker Labs

Geoff Potter
Vice President, DC-DC Advanced Technology
Astec

Phillip Roux
Manger, Power Systems Midrange Storage Division
EMC Corp .

Joshua Israelsohn
Technical Editor
EDN Worldwide

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7:30 – 8:30 am

Breakfast with Darnell;

Linnea Brush, Senior Research Analyst, will discuss current trends in the adoption and implementation of digital power management and digital power conversion. (limited seating, reservations required)

9:00 – 10:30 am

Digital Power, Killer Application or DOA?

Chaired by:
Henry Koertzen, Intel

2.0 Digital Power: Passing Fad or Tip of the Iceberg?
Jim MacDonald, Zilker Labs

2.1 Going Against the Grain: Digital Power Looking for a Killer Application
Alan Elbanhawy, Fairchild Semiconductor

2.2 Thinking “Inside the Box” Provides “Out of the Box” Benefits
Lou Pechi, Power-One

10:30 – 10:45 am

Break

10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Advanced Power Management Buses

Chaired by:
Rob Hilkes, Potentia Semiconductor

3.0 Practical Implementation of PMBus
Marc Sousa, Texas Instruments

3.1 Communications in Power Systems
Mikhail Guz, Power-One

3.2 PMBus-Compliant Communications in Tyco’s Newest AC-DC Platform
Gabriel Suranyi, Tyco Electronics

12:15 – 2:00 pm

Hosted Lunch

Exhibits Open

2:00 – 3:30 pm

AC-DC and PFC

Chaired by:
Joseph Thottuvelil, Tyco Electronics

4.0 Innovative Front End Power Supply with Combined Digital and Analogue Control
Fabrizio Tozzo, Roal Electronics

4.1 A Modified Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) for Full Digital Power Factor Correction
Simon Oh, Fairchild Semiconductor

4.2 Complementary Digital and Analog Control of a High Power, Three-Phase, Power Factor Corrected Converter
Ron Crews, C&D Electronics Power Electronics Division

3:30 – 3:45 pm

Break

3:45 – 5:45 pm

DC-DC Converters

Chaired by:
Shamala Chickamenahalli, Intel

5.0 Digital Control Loop for Portable DC-DC Power Conversion
Sridhar Kotikalapoodi, Fairchild Semiconductor

5.1 Designing a Digital Controller for a Half-Bridge DC-DC Converter
Don Alfano, Silicon Labs

5.2 Practical Identification of DC-DC Converter Dynamic Responses and Automated Digital Controller Design
Dragan Maksimovic, Colorado Power Electronics Center

5.3 Firmware Structure for Digital POL Supply with Microcontroller and Digital Control Loop Engine
Ian Bower, Texas Instruments

8:00 – 10:00 am

Digital PWM Controllers

Chaired by:
Reno Rossetti, Fairchild Semiconductor

6.0 Optimizing System Operation Using a Flexible Digital PWM Controller
Ka Leung, Silicon Labs

6.1 Digital Controller with High Resolution PWM Enables High Frequency PWM Converter Applications
Shamim Choudhury, Texas Instruments

6.2 Advances in Practical High-Performance Digital Control
Dragan Maksimovic, Colorado Power Electronics Center

6.3 The Next Steps for Digital Control
Bob Carroll, Primarion

10:00 – 10:15 am

Break

10:15 am – 12:15 pm

Applications of Digital Power

Chaired by:
Phil Cooke, International Rectifier

7.0 A New Digital Power Controller for Lighting Applications
Howard Abramowitz, Systel Development & Industries

7.1 Digitally Controlling a CCFL/EEFL Backlight Inverter
Mark Hagen, Texas Instruments

7.2 Implementing Digital Power Control in Automotive Alternators
Doug Hopkins, DCHopkins & Associates

7.3 Medical Digital Power Case Study
Tom Winters, Fairchild Semiconductor

Adjourn

Managing Your Power System With The PMBus™ Protocol
Hosted by Artesyn
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Implementation Aspects of Digital Power Architecture
Hosted by Power-One
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Digital Control of Switching Power Converters (part 1)

Hosted by e/j BLOOM associates Inc.

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Digital Control of Switching Power Converters (part 2)

Hosted by e/j BLOOM associates Inc.

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