Submission Guidelines
Join us at the Fifth Annual Digital Power Forum and hear about the latest components, new design techniques and design tools that will enable the use of digital power management and digital power conversion technologies in your next design. Delegates will also see demonstrations and application examples for practical digital power designs in the exhibition area.
The Digital Power Forum '08 promises to be the biggest and best "digital power event" ever hosted. Don't miss this chance to showcase your latest work in digital power, and to see the most-recent development efforts of other leading engineers in this important emerging field.
Digital power electronics holds the promise of improvements in performance and reduction in cost compared with today's primarily analog techniques. However, the replacement of analog control and power management with advanced digital techniques can introduce additional complexity to the design process. To fully appreciate the promises of digital control, it will be necessary for designers to employ new control models and new approaches to power system design and architectures. Significant challenges are ahead for companies eager to enter this market. The perceived complexity of "going digital" in comparison to using similar bandwidth analog components is a major hurdle companies have to surmount. Join us at the Digital Power Forum and hear about new components, new design techniques and design tools that will enable the use of digital power conversion and digital power management technologies in your next design.
Submissions are being sought for:
Digital Power Conversion track
Topics may include: controllers and control loops, communications, fault tolerance, stability analysis, converter efficiency, design tools, topologies, system partitioning between analog & digital, power quality & EMC, and so on.
Application areas: ac-dc power supplies and dc-dc converters, telecommunications rectifiers, inverters, uninterruptible power supplies, lighting ballasts, and other applications.
Digital Power Management track
Topics may include: data center energy efficiency, power and thermal management; "out of band" power management; improved system availability, voltage sequencing, hot plugging, fault monitoring, power management, distributed power architectures, system configuration, communications, and so on.
Application areas: networking and communications systems, computing and storage systems, industrial, medical, portable computing and communications devices, and other applications.
Types of Presentations:
- Case Studies/Industry Examples: outstanding examples of recent applications of digital power management or control in power systems including developmental tests as well as full commercial systems.
- Design Techniques and Tools: detailed and specific discussions of how digital power management and digital power conversion systems are designed with emphasis on practical, real-world examples of current commercial solutions, including integration issues involved with combining digital power control on a converter level with digital power management on a system level.
- Technology Developments: projections and forecasts for changes in core power electronic technologies, including new designs/implementations, new applications and new methods for implementing solutions.
Submission Guidelines:
Note: Proposals and submissions will be accepted only electronically by e-mail. Send your proposal as an attachment to your e-mail to Traci Shepard, tshepard@darnell.com.
The Proposal: Each proposal should be a maximum of 1,000 words and include:
- Abstract of proposed presentation
- Proposed format of presentation
- Brief description of the presentation for the conference program (100 words)
- Presenter's profile
Presentation Format Options:
- Individual paper from industry
- Collaborative industry/academic paper
- Lead a panel discussion
Presenter's Profile:
- Presenter biography and list of affiliations
- Presenter profile for the conference program (50 words)
- Contact information: name, title, company, address, office phone & fax, e-mail and website (if applicable)
Deadline for Proposals: April 18, 2008
Notification and Acceptance Requirements:
Notification of acceptance will be announced on or before April 28, 2008.
Acceptance will not be complete until at least one of the authors has registered to attend the conference and present the paper.
Final Submission:
The formal paper will be included in the proceedings and consist of a maximum of six pages in a two-column format, or a maximum of 24 pages of PowerPoint slides (one slide per page).
Deadline for Final Submissions: August 1, 2008
