Inside the Internet of Things - Bryon Moyer Blog
[From the last episode: We looked at an IoT example involving fleets of semi-trailers.] We’re now going to look at energy and how electronics fit into the overall global energy story. Whether it’s about saving money on electricity at home, making data centers more efficient, using fewer batteries (or charging […]
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[From the last episode: We looked at high-level notions about energy and power – and the difference between the two.] We looked a few months ago at basic electrical ideas: voltage, current, resistance, and power. And we used a popular analogy with the flow of water to help make the […]
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[From the last episode: We looked in more depth at voltage and current, and that the direction that electrons flow is actually opposite to the direction that current is said to go.] We saw before that voltage is like potential energy. As long as there’s no current, that energy remains […]
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[From the last episode: We looked at different transistor types and saw why it is that, with CMOS, there is no static power.] Just because CMOS circuits have no static power doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods. Yeah, it’s possible to say that we’re doing “work” while the circuit […]
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[From the last episode: we looked at the concept of dynamic power – which applies to CMOS even though static power is zero. (Or is it?…)] So far, we’ve seen a pretty ideal world where, with the mere flip of a transistor , we can go from consuming no energy […]
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