Switching System, a Zero Power Standby Solution

Reducing the system standby power of a personal computer

Most previous low-power personal computer designs have been either focused on power efficiency improvement or on software power management in the working states. This research aims to reduce the total standby power amount in the off state. The authors accomplish the goal of reducing the power consumption by a wake-up device which is replaced by a chip with a still lower consumption. The authors...

Zero-watt Networked Standby: Reducing Power Consumption of Home A/V Network Systems

Energy conservation is an important global issue. The home is the third largest energy consumer, and 10% of the home energy use is standby power of home appliances. The proliferation of home networks increases the standby power. The conventional technologies for low networked standby power such as WoL require continuous AC power, as much as 0.5 watts, to monitor wake-up signals. A large portion...

Standby power reduction using dynamic standby control with voltage keeper

This paper presents dynamic standby control (DSC) with voltage keeper for further standby power reduction. As compared to the reported DSC, the new modified DSC can be kept deeply cut-off with negative overdrive voltage as well. Besides, a bootstrapped voltage keeper directly recharges the boosted node of power gate, which prevents leakage current during the recharging period. However, total st...

Reliability analysis of a warm standby repairable system with two cases of imperfect switching mechanism

Reliability Measures of a Repairable System with Standby Switching Failures and Reboot Delay

Abstract: In this paper, we study the reliability measures of a repairable system with M operating units, W warm standby units, and R repairmen in which switching failures and reboot delay are considered. It is assumed that there is a significant failure probability q in the switching process. Failure times of an operating unit and of a standby unit are assumed to be exponentially distributed w...