Free HW Design - Power Supply for Desktop Compter in Developing Countries

[john_re]

Hi Prof Brewer :)

Back at the Citris Dai Hall opening you mentioned to me you might have a "free/open hardware" project that you might want to work on - the power supply for use in a new design desktop computer system for developing countries - which would have better efficiency for some parameters of operation, & perhaps better ability to deal with intermittent power supply condition - iirc what you said. ;)

I saw this article about this power supply design tool, which might be useful in your possible effort.

Are you still interested in that power supply design? Any progress on it? What's its status?

Would you like to come to BTIP & make a presentation about it, or any other topic of interest to Free SW HW or Culture? You're invited. :)
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/

I've been intending to invite you to come to the BerkeleyTIP meetings - been too busy. I also need to invite Prof Lee (Potolomy design sw & open textbooks). Anyone else on the faculty you know working on open hw sw culture stuff?

At the recent conference on campus, last week, about ?sensor networks? - SENS..., I talked w/ prof Culler, & a grad student from germany?Denmark? with an Eclipse plugin for TinyOS. I should invite Prof culler too.

I'll also forward you our current monthly BTIP announcement after this.


Online power-supply-design tool evaluates 48 billion designs
http://www.edn.com/article/CA6705379.html

WEBENCH® Online Design Tools
http://www.national.com/analog/webench

National Semiconductor’s New WEBENCH Visualizer Enables Real-Time Comparison of Power Solutions Across Multiple Criteria
http://www.national.com/news/item/0,1735,1435,00.html